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Associate Professor of Narcolepsy. @RavenOfWroclaw buttondown.com/rook.raven
hey!!! my baby* brother is publishing his first game on steam!! my kids have done extensive beta testing and love it a lot! add it to ur wishlist perhaps?? *fully grown adult store.steampowered.com/app/4866350/...
Rogue Machines on Steam
A roguelike building physics puzzle game. Buy blocks to build better machines to get the ball in the goal. Unlock more blocks, levels, and upgrades as you play more runs.
store.steampowered.com
NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Happy 8 years of Hell World. Here is a 50% off discount for one year of fantastic reporting and essays from an extraordinary array of contributors (and also my brand of horse shit.) What a gift for one and all! Thank you to everyone who has supported us. www.welcometohellworld.com/8-years-of-h...
bro last night was a patreon subscriber exclusive
This is concerning for a zillion reasons but, a dispensary in Michigan went viral for blocking a Flock camera in its parking lot designed to create a record of every car that goes there. Easy to imagine this being used in abortion, gender affirming care cases
![It is not difficult to imagine police in one state using Flock to track a resident of their state cross state lines to, for example, obtain an abortion that is legal in one state but not in another. Last year, 404 Media reported on police in Texas who searched more than 80,000 cameras across Flock’s nationwide network for a woman who had a self-administered abortion.
The case is also particularly concerning considering that Flock cameras have popped up outside of weed dispensaries in Michigan. The JARS Cannabis dispensary in Madison Heights, Michigan, went viral this week for putting a “No Flock Zone” sign in front of a Flock camera in the dispensary’s parking lot. “We share our community’s concerns about increased surveillance, which is why we placed the No Flock Zone sign in front of the camera to block its ability to record,” the dispensary said in a public statement. “JARS does not control the camera or have access to any of the data it collects … after we installed our No Flock Zone sign, the city issued a demand letter warning of sanctions if we did not remove it within 48 hours.” But that Flock camera exists specifically to monitor the license plates of people who come and go to the dispensary. It was required by Madison Heights as one of the conditions for giving a dispensary license to JARS: “[The dispensary] must place a FLOCK license plate scanning camera system at the entrance of the customer parking lot prior to commencement of retail sales, and it will give the Madison Heights Police Department unhindered live access to the FLOCK camera, camera footage, and any and all data, which must remain operational at all times.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo/bafkreid622omkygkpo7nucauweh23yk2gaffcgf7vztawfyyjb7n2qbhze)
"When spotting another American in a foreign country, your first instinct is usually the correct one: run in the opposite direction." omg i keep thinking i need to make more english-speaking friends here, for my son and general loneliness purposes and yet this is what i do
Nat Missildine@natmissildine.bsky.social · 10h agoMy latest on @mcsweeneys.net where I try to help out with our current, heavy baggage. Meet me on the bridge, you dear long-lost Americans!
oh no i will not be watching ross douthat interview louise perry thanks nope
great title i will not be reading this anytime soon i didn't have this, but i could see how it could be really easy to slide from absolutely wiped, breastmilk soaking everything, don't ask me my name to really bad stuff within about 30 seconds. it's a brutal time.
so i guess we are back to having to print, sign, and scan PDFs now, all of us who don't have reason to buy an entire adobe acrobat license, huh
'Dancing in the mist'... A pair of loons 'walking on water', revelling in beautiful dawn light against a backdrop of the Adirondack High Peaks on Saturday morning 8/1/26
tapping the sign
Welcome to the Age of Diarrhea
The future is not knowing what ails you
stringinamaze.net
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”
when i went to trade school in the basque country i took a class that was about your rights as a worker understanding how your paycheck broke down when you could strike everything we could do that too, we don't have to view trade training as merely about service.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · yesterdayRepublicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Firefighters in Spokane are working around the clock to battle the wildfires, and WCK & our local partners are there to support them no matter what time it is. Chef Chad & his team at Trail Feast served up a hearty breakfast at 6:00 AM to first responders stationed at Mt. Spokane High School. (1/2)
"Is there time? Death doesn’t scare me as much as remembering that there will be a last of everything. There will be a last July." i think about this very thing all the time! not july, but the last whatever when will you know it is the last time?
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 23h agoTODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
wow who knew that treating skilled staff like shit was a bad idea everyone i know who works in healthcare says that patients and their families are ruder and harder to deal with and more likely to have substance abuse problems since covid time.com/article/2026...
Stop Saying There's a Nursing Shortage
The U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.
time.com
El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party
The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
newyorker.com
i am again asking what they think happens when massive numbers of people are not able to get even the sorry excuse we offer for social support and they are hungry
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · yesterday“Moved 5 million people off food stamps”
hey americans who would we be if we were not worried about healthcarerentthecarhegemony who would we be real q
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
oregonlive.com
On my work table today, starting Fall minis with these polymer clay jack o'lanterns. 🎃 #dollhouse #miniatures #handmade #polymerclay #mpminis
