Ben

Dean Ball wrote Trump's AI plan. 👀

You know the one all the AI bros were so excited about and for which they thought it was so important to back Trump to get.

Pretty sure they'll walk back from requiring divestment tho. Otherwise folks start noticing that, eg, Google having to fire sale 14% of a 300+in business is a higher loss than their entire federal revenue, and so bigtech walks from USG contracts

Drop. Bear.

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

Hell of a thing to say just as your boss is about to start two wars

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Air conditioners were originally invented for printing presses. At the turn of the 20th century, Sackett & Wilhelms Lithographing Company, a printing plant in Brooklyn, New York, had a problem: High humidity was causing its paper to wrinkle, swell, and shrink. As ...

Historical fact, the quest to stop paper jamming in big printing machines lead to the invention of air conditioning. Humidity makes paper swell a tiny but meaningful amount. Turn your aircon on. historyfacts.com/science-indu...

A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

Guys being Dudes

Rule 0 of the 21st Century, right there

They have a persons with disabilities section in their concentration camp.

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Huhhh. I know someone who had *exactly* the same thing happen with their book very recently. The same people, same language used, and a kinda related subject matter too. There is *definitely* something up here.

*turns to camera*

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

“…including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship…” -

the State Dept writing royalties checks for James Mason’s SIEGE by year end. Maybe top billing for the 2083 Declaration of European Independence.

www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

The Barkley. Barefoot. Good God.

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

oh hell yes

(Mexican and Japanese heritage night jerseys for the Dodgers)

At long last, we have created the Luftballons from classic pop song 99 Luftballons!

this may be the most English man ever to exist.

ahem www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Something also true in Ancient Rome, to be fair.

i don't see why they can't do all the track and field events at both olympics. put a coat on

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

Instilling a lifelong grudge into the hearts of a cadre of elite foreign correspondents is certainly a choice one can make. Sure.

- So, what do you do?
- I'm a supervillain.
- What's your name?
- Autocorrector.
- HAHAHA! Are you Sirius? What's your super powder? Wait a minion... what the help is happy ninja to me? PLEATS MAKE IT DUCKING STOP!

It’s more of a Dread Pirate Roberts situation, traditionally.

Using the phrase “core British values” is ceding ground to nationalism. Just say “common decency” and hold them to that. Otherwise you lose the argument just by engaging with it.

I think the phrase “too slow to defend core British values” is more akin to “the entire political and commentary class has persuaded itself it is socially impossible to call out assholes for what they are, because we’ve all been trapped by the right wing linguistic capture”

the cool thing about mamdani is that literally everyone who freaked out about him sucks

Smell with Genji: Rediscovering Human Perception through an Olfactory Game with AI ArXiv link for Smell with Genji: Rediscovering Human Perception through an Olfactory Game with AI

"Smell with Genji" redefines the Genji-kō olfactory game, using AI to heighten sensory experiences. This human-AI partnership deepens engagement with olfactory perception and bridges the olfactory-verbal gap, paving the way for innovative multi-sensory AI uses. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02785