dang I've always wondered this but then forget to look into it and it turns out it's even more interesting than I expected why we don't
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4h agoIf you wanted to fly from Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) to Perth in Western Australia (PER), you'll need to connect in: Sydney (SYD), a trip of ~30+ hrs, 11,000 miles or Auckland (AKL) a trip of ~25+ hrs, 9,800 miles. But there's a shorter, FORBIDDEN trip. Over Antarctica.
If books were good they wouldn't have had to keep inventing so many better ways to get stories
a lot of people reposting this with like "good", "fuck alabama", etc. cut the fucking shit out. we are not turning our backs on ANYBODY.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
sure but also is it the best way to do it or are the people making ai just uncreative? no shots at OP this is a great point i just feel like its been a hot minute and we're getting close to due for a revolution in interfaces (iphone 20 years old next year?)
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 7h agoEveryone's all "stupid science fiction film and tv depicting advanced artificial intelligenc in a text user interface in a console" and did you look at what we're doing in 2026, joke's on who now?
I need somebody who can do music stuff to make a reggaeton cover of Billy Joel's "Don't Ask Me Why". No AI, No follow up questions.
THE AGE OF YACHT ROCK REVIVAL IS OVER AND THE DAWN OF THE ADULT CONTEMPORARY COMEBACK LOOMS
I would love to be able to somehow know more about how the popularity of classic artists back catalog changing over time. I feel like I'm the 90s "I'm Every Woman" was this massive anthem, then Yeezy prayer "Through the Fire" to insane popularity, but now "Ain't Nobody" is her most played song.
kind of comforting that it is trivially easy to bait literally any political faction into internecine public beef with a single burrito taxi post
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
"More Than A Woman", you going Tavares or Bee Gees? (Maybe the only question where Aaliyah is a great but wrong answer?)
I'm fine with this. I'm a confirmed Nolan hater and Kubrick die hard but I do think there's something to be said for movies being created in the aesthetic language of their time and that being harder for casual movie watchers to enjoy than shit from their own generation. Such is life.
Dan Schkade@danschkade.bsky.social · 22h agoListen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check
It's impossible to miss how AI has fucked up every digital interaction, and the awful, bile-inducing "art" is everywhere, but until my son started pointing it out, I had not realized how much AI-generated music there is being played in public
In his 2020 run, Buttigieg stopped releasing the names of his campaign bundlers after scrutiny. They included: -superlobbyist, and now Palantir lobbyist, Steve Elmendorf -billionaire Blackstone exec Hamilton James -"Silicon Valley's favorite fixer" Bradley Tusk -Merck's head of public affairs, etc.
Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg
As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, ...
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Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · yesterdayWe see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.
Terry Pratchett's ghost is about to slash his tires again
katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d agookay now he's gone too far
It's absolutely insane we haven't taken over Google Search as a public and made it run by a proper standards body. It's fucking ludicrous how much load bearing shit in this country rests on the back of software engineers who accidentally stumbled into the ad sales industry
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday🤷🏿♂️
also I know this dude says "animals don't wipe" but every pet I've ever owned spends a significant portion of the day licking their own asshole so you do you brother
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
I really regret that we've already used up "you know it smell crazy in there"
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
that Cat Power + Handsome Boy Modeling School song still goes hard as fuck tho idc idc idc
Chinese spoons are so fucking much better then American spoons it makes me feel insane that we can't just switch over.
Deciding that sometime "over the last six years" all of the women you know becoming perimenopausal is because of "the jab" and not, you know, aging, is just amazing. Like you have to be 40 or 40 years old ofc that's happening????
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
I don't want to dismiss the article cuz the author clearly spends way more time with this stuff than I do but this is shocking to me, I feel like the majority of my social media is people openly struggling??
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
I mean the fact is we already won. There's gonna be a million more elections (knock wood) and we're gonna win some and lose some but it is just undeniable on the ground that we have made massive progress this year and you can never take that away from us.
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoMichigan 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.