NEW | EV Adoption is booming around the world The Hormuz crisis once again revealed the risks of an energy system reliant on fossil fuels and countries are taking notice. Growing EV fleets have saved oil importers more than $20 billion since the start of the war.

A lot of people I know shared posts about the Yandex datacenter bombing resulting in a decrease in Russian misinformation/disinformation bot activity, sometimes with charts. Let this be a reminder every one of us could be fooled by a story that we really want to be true.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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goated thread

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Particle Physics Equipment xkcd.com/3286/

This suggests that if enough time is dedicated to homework, regardless of AI usage, performance is roughly the same. This lacks a non-AI comparison for students completing homework in <50 minutes. If I had to guess, rushed homework is going to correlate to bad test scores, regardless of AI.

Was he intoxicated?

Charlie Kirk has been silent since this dropped. Why is he so scared?

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2mo ago

I’d feel extremely safe on this flight because I already know they had to work twice as hard, be twice as good and make half as many mistakes just to get into those seats. Black women make up less than 1% of professional pilots. Yeah, I’d sleep good on this flight. ✈️

You shouldn't speak ill of the dead

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Beshear criticizes Mitch McConnell for not at least putting out a proof of life video, and John Thune for not caring that McConnell apparently doesn't the capacity to work anymore

this is how we're gonna get the oil through (read: over) Hormuz

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

SpaceX wants to use rockets to transport cargo across Earth in a fraction of the time required by ships or planes, potentially reshaping global cargo networks. theconversation.com/spacex-aims-...

i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

abolish mondays

two goats

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JVL joins Destiny for his first-ever political stream to talk about how MAGA media manufactures reality, why mainstream outlets keep playing by obsolete rules, and how Democrats kill their own messages before voters ever hear them. www.thebulwark.com/p/destiny-in...

I haven't watched Nolan's Odyssey yet but here is what it means for the entertainment industry (🧵 1/14):

Why do we care about what this freak says?

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Update from Ukraine.

If you think LLMs are conscious, the only explanation for them inserting "vegetative electron microscopy" into papers is that they are trying to mess with us.

Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦@jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“vegetative electron microscopy” "The term has now appeared in at least 22 different papers" "the nonsense term may now be permanently embedded in AI knowledge bases" 1/2 www.zmescience.com/science/news...

It's gonna be funny (not really) to see democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by letting leftist communist losers devide the voters once again.

Destiny | Steven Bonnell II@destiny.gg · 3mo ago

The funniest part about all of this is that Hasan doesn't even like the Democratic party lmao.

I stuffed my comics into a calendar and you can pre-order yours right now ✨ amazon.com/gp/product/B0GF98HRPD

gonna start talking like this to my boss

I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.

Happy for Americans for passing the Elizabeth Warren Affordable Housing Act

Democrats will have egg on their faces when Mitch McConnel walks in as a cyborg

Mitch McConnell's possible death raises new questions about Joe Biden's health.

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

Made a pizza so flat its got subsurface scattering

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Forbes@forbes.com · 5mo ago

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.