NOT NOW, NEWLY IDENTIFIED CARNIVOROUS PLANT

Darwin proposed that a type of plant was carnivorous. Scientists finally proved him right | CNN

A new study found Saxifraga candelabrum to be a carnivorous plant, proving true Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that some plants of its genus lure, trap and eat insects.

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If this isn’t a loss of the Mandate of Heaven, what is?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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as a cryptography nerd, it's real confusing seeing everyone's posts about AES all of a sudden.

Beware of Greeks bearing gift articles

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

me: i'm so exhausted. i can't believe it's only Tuesday. i looked at a computer 12 hours straight today and now i am going to sleep like the dead... my cat: HEY I FOUND MY TOY WITH THE JINGLE BELL IN IT AND AM SUDDENLY INTERESTED IN IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS

Checking Environment Canada and there’s a yellow warning for Halifax over the next few days. Oh… hooray… 😓

Cars should not come with ads or subscriptions, actually.

if you want some spicy *authentic* ODYSSEY discourse, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library has a translation of the incredibly bitter East Roman freelancer John Tzetzes's ALLEGORIES OF THE ODYSSEY, which is the cutting edge of 12th-century Homeric criticism. folks, it's *bonkers*.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

When the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes. This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians. 🧵 1/10

Okay, now I’ll start saving for a Switch 2.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 23h ago

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave gave a nun a gun: aftermath.site/fire-emblem-fo...

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

As @katemanne.bsky.social notes, it's reinforcing male entitlement to female deference. If men wallow in AI porn and bots saying "yes, sir," all day, they may react poorly when real women say no. It could lead to violence. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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Finding myself confused: I thought the Alberta referendum was nixed as majority of the actual land is property of First Nations and they have zero interest in any of this BS?

I feel like this is being framed as an issue with Spider-Man, when the problem is people don’t want ads on their car screens, period.

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 22h ago

The Spider-Man ad comes after BMW vowed it wouldn't use its car screens as a billboard https://gizmodo.com/bmw-is-playing-a-spider-man-ad-on-its-dashboard-displays-and-people-are-pissed-2000794369

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

It’s called the Maritimes because sometimes the air and the ocean get mixed up about which is which.

This. I don't think anyone is really anti-AI. They're anti-the-companies-pushing-AI. LLMs have some really incredible use cases. They can be assistive technologies, help with mental load, and allow you to focus more on the present than an endless stream of tasks or your phone.

Annie Sexton@anniesexton.com · 2d ago

Crappy morning. I find LLMs really beneficial in certain areas of my life, but a lot of people think AI use of any kind is the devil. While this is irritating, what frustrates me more is knowing the real problem is the companies trying to shove this crap up every orifice of our lives. I'm so tired.

I am grateful to the people here who are committed to posting beauty - visual art, music, poetry.

Reading Vaishnavi Patel’s “Goddess of the River”. Fast read, and I know a lot of the foundations, but really making me think I should read the Mahabharata proper.

I want Bluesky to expand so there are more Canadians.

yeah this is also very fair

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d ago

i'm a subscriber to the verge but i think the written excerpt posted here is a little unfair here. "we have an open protocol we want anyone to be able to build on" isn't really the same as saying "we want nazis on here". most of his response is actually about their work on live events like sports

Thinking I probably should login and do a little work before tomorrow… but Tango is in the office chair & doing so would mean I have to move her.

A few reliable posters passed this along and warned followers you would cry. They were right. 🥲

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

. @josephcox.bsky.social talked with a former Flock government affairs manager who said the company lied about its pilot programs sharing data with federal agencies like ICE: www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...

Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’

Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned.

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