I wonder how Natalie Harp is filtering the news about Natalie Harp. Human Printer jam?
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my neighbor states that he is not a genie yet every time i rub his house he comes outside
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
YouTube's view count has, to me, been a gold standard on metrics. What a 'view' is can be debated, but how it's been doing it for ~two decades is how it should be
YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost
Watching one frame of a video will count as a view.
theverge.com
Relatedly, yesterday my dad called me and at the end of our conversation, he said something incredibly callous and false about me, harkening back to when they treated me poorly. I was thinking of visiting them next month but not anymore! Fuck off!
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d agolol come the fuck on
sometimes i’m taken aback by how draconian UK defamation law seems, but on the other hand it’s pretty clear that British journalists can’t be trusted with free speech
Trump II must go down in the history books as an administration intent on suppressing speech and intimidating ideological opponents through the state apparatus
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
nytimes.com
The decision to stop enforcing laws appears to undercut President Trump's publicly stated ambitions to cut down on crime.
The other day at the running track I saw some man in a motorized wheelchair going around in laps on the outer lane, and it kind of broke my brain
I felt like I was losing my mind, thinking that my fan was never blowing much air as when I got it a few months ago. But no, the cat's fur on the blades has really dampened its efficiency at blowing air, and now it feels so much better.
I've been working a paid job a ton this summer (seasonal) so Euclid Editor has been put on priority lower than my personal time, how little of it exists every day. I haven't played much Battlefield 6 since the start of July! It's that bad!
In this wonderful cringe compilation, we see one of Elon Musk's most hated objects: trains.
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Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
This is a good answer, & no one in the Wisconsin media frames or asks Tom Tiffany questions like this about being too extreme. Whatever one thinks of Hong, it's a wildly different double standard & Tiffany's/the WI GOP's embrace of authoritarianism is more extreme than anything she has proposed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles
The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING WSJ: Trump White House officials have asked the Trump Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of David Hearn, the man accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool — as Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's decision to drop the case.
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
My pasta strainer broke as I was pouring into it, and now most of my dinner is in the sink 🙃
Bumper sticker idea: KEEP HONKING! I’M LISTENING AND LEARNING
this iran humiliation is revealing so much about the US. you can actually see how military coups happen, why there's a 25th amendment, why wars should ever be wages at the whim of one guy (especially a world-class idiot). the rot and the sclerosis are now apparent to anyone who wants to look
Hh.. how many products has this show produced? There's not going to be a future to this show, right? Is this for funding future shows? www.youtube.com/watch?v=duhE...
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People voted for authoritarianism because they wanted lower inflation and now they have authoritarianism and even more inflation. (no lessons will be learned) blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/affordabil...
Affordability concerns are even more important to voters than in 2024
Inflation continues to dominate the issue landscape, and drag down the president
blog.fiftyplusone.news
have you seen plans derailed or business disrupted thanks to erroneous forecasts from your phone's weather apps? has it become harder for you to figure out what to wear, day by day? did an event go awry thanks to an unexpected storm? I'd love to chat with you! nitish.pahwa@slate.com, Signal in bio.
