"No one's sure why" because we have perfectly good computers sitting around that can't upgrade to Windows 11 and all the new hardware costs too much that's why

internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️@esquiring.bsky.social · 18h ago

it is, at long last, the Year of Linux on the Desktop. www.techspot.com/news/113326-...

We won't have to ban it. It's too expensive to run and it's been subsidized so heavily that when the financing runs out Claude and ChatGPT simply won't exist anymore.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Haley Stevens to join the Harvard Institute of Politics

A monstrous waste of money.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 19h ago

Unfathomable

El calor extremo flexibiliza el veto al aire acondicionado en Europa por salud pública y dispara su demanda dozz.es/n40gm3

El calor extremo flexibiliza el veto al aire acondicionado en Europa por salud pública y dispara su demanda

dozz.es

and even with due process, it would be illegal. we don't execute even convicted drug traffickers.

Steve Saideman@smsaideman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.

This issue was resolved by US v Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir 1991), codified by the CFAA in 1996, and clarified by Van Buren v US, 141 S.Ct. 1648 (2021). They intentionally deployed an unauthorized access tool. It's no defense to say they didn't intend the resulting damage; Morris lost on that. 1/2

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d ago

After Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...

The Fed doesn't investigate it but I suspect AI hiring assistants are responsible for this change.

Steven Bodzin, concerned living being@stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Check it out, Bloodless Quants find that this economy is indeed different for job-seekers. Numbers show people who are out of work -- or out of the workforce -- really aren't able to find a job. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

I kinda like the idea of Trump as someone controlled by Pinky and the Brain where, like, the joke is that the scheme keeps succeeding wherever Pinky gets control and does something Brain thinks utterly absurd, because it turns out Pinky really Connects With The Base.

BISHTOONS@bishtoons.bsky.social · 2d ago

Recently, someone asked online if Pinky and the Brain were still trying to take over the world… because they thought that they could do a better job than a certain orange felon. That prompted me to share this cartoon that I drew years ago.

If you ever see an English writer who knowingly posed with a cigarette like that for a professional photographer, he's the single biggest piece of shit in a 100 mile radius

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d ago

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Faster heartbeats. Non-stop sweat. Endless rage. Get that dog blood today.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

seeing lots of algospeak-adjacent anti-surveillance content on youtube these days from relative normies

I love big brother #woahbros

YouTube video by WoahBros

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It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

futurism.com

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Some Personal News + an ask: I’m going out to work the harvest at a winery in OR! My dogsitter fell through, now I need someone who wants to stay in my house & take care of the sweetest dog. Ideally Gabe could stay here, but I can also bring him to anyone who lives within a day’s drive of DC.

yeah I saw them popping up on Reddit, which **does not care** about the WNBA, so it was pretty clearly some kind of ratfucking.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2d ago

For months before Sophie Cunningham's latest blow-up, Instagram and TikTok have been shoving tribute videos of her fighting Black players on the court into everyone's feed. I wonder why that is, and I wonder about the timing of the buildup.

another important dynamic. the product review ecosystem is obviously corrupt as shit, so consumers assume everything sucks AND there is less incentive to invest in quality work because nobody will believe you bsky.app/profile/russ...

Russ@russ41.bsky.social · 3d ago

Extension of d) and e): in most cases, consumers do not choose quality directly, they choose using a heuristic (media reviews, but also brand, relative price, country of origin, peer ratings). All of these heuristics have been *actively* degraded/obscured.

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.

dead eyes.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Is a bad Jamaican accent proof that a fetus is conscious?

also, Brittany Spears is 16 in this photo. i don't know if we have much of a leg to stand on.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

you know we correctly give the French shit for Le Pedophile Racist stuff but the tolerance or praise of openly predatory pedophiles in cultural circles was very much not restricted to France - e.g. Donald Friend in Australia.

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

it is very important that we have independent media and I am again tapping the sign for you to find billionaire free, worker run news to support how and when you are able

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

Yeah, I think about this regularly. What few know is I was attacked for this. You’re shutting him down. You’re being rude. Amateur. People hated that I pushed SBF! Probably too satisfied with the outcome, but come on

Cas Piancey@cascoinfoundation.org · 2y ago

Lucky to be one of the only people who ever had the catharsis of speaking to SBF the way he should’ve always been spoken to. (wait until the end for the smuggest head nod in history)

Me when there's a new Marvel out that's supposed to be nuts: