Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels haven’t aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who’s a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he’s a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
I was extremely fascinated by the concept of these messages as a kid, because even then the powers-that-be seemed so out of touch that them planning for people living thousands of years after our civilization collapsed was mind boggling
I think this is the most complex and edge-casey thing I've ever asked Siri, and I was pleasantly surprised the question was parsed/understood and answered correctly.
Yesterday I asked my smartwatch, "Hey Siri, in Dungeons and Dragons, are a monk's fist attacks strength-based or dexterity-based?" while I was rolling a new BG3 character and I guess this is the use case for "AI" (it was really just an internet search) I've been missing.
When Richard Nixon was recorded calling Pierre Trudeau "that asshole Trudeau" on the White House Watergate tapes, Pierre famously responded to the press: "I’ve been called worse things by better people."
“Governor Trudeau” is part of the Trump administration’s ethos of pathological insecurity. A weak person is constantly compelled to insult and belittle others, even allies, to show “strength.” An actually strong person isn’t. Bullies are weak, as are their sycophants.
Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship
We can quibble about the placement of each item but the original sin here is the very existence of this graph. Why on earth would a news organization rank social issues like they're weapons in an RPG?
BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.
i hope more than anything what people learn from this 2nd trump term is that the capitalist class are aligned and they want you to have less rights and only want you to exist to generate profit for them
“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” nyti.ms/41yElFc
I beat Avowed, and while I loved most of it, the map/fog of war was ass, and the ending was extremely anticlimactic (but I guess anticlimactic in the same way that Fallout New Vegas' ending is?)
As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.
This sucks, but having no encryption is better than having no encryption and THINKING you have encryption, which is what you get with backdoored encryption.
Age-verification laws are being weaponized to censor LGBTQ+ and abortion-related content online, restricting access to critical resources under the guise of protecting children, EFF’s Rin Alajaji and Paige Collings write for @msmagazine.com.
Everyone who trashed Biden for being checked out is clapping like a seal when Trump pops up on tv looking like he died a month ago and saying "But they call it summary execution and it's something I guess they're doing if you're nasty to a Tesla"
I think the fundamental problem with American politics is that the vast majority of household-name politicians are grotesque peices of shit who need to go the fuck away forever
All DOGE workers who were folded in from US Digital Service quit, and it's darkly humorous to me that this article about all the reasons why only has this as the argument from the other side:
"These were full remote workers who hung Trans flags from their workplaces"
Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.
it’s so wild how everyone memory holed how awful trumps first term was. this second term is even worse almost immediately. if democrats blow the midterms to these guys i’m going to lose my mind, this should be a layup midterm
Republican Congressman Mark Alford is hearing from his constituents in Missouri loud and clear today: Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Elon Musk has got to go! (via Brian Johnson / KMBC)
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