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I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

At the end of A New Hope, Leia gives Luke and Han their employee badges and lanyards. Chewie is a contractor who has to be signed in. #canon

It’s a beautiful pen! That would definitely inspire me to handwrite more. 😍🖋️

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

A Lego minifig of a dragonborn skeleton

Did you know that you can get all the parts you need to build a dragonborn skeleton from LEGO’s official Pick-a-Brick for under $3! (CMF plate not included)
BRB, off to build a horde!

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Celebrate the positive when it comes along:
Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Nino3.4 region sea surface temperature forecast.

Wow, that's a monster signal for El Niño in today's new ECMWF seasonal forecast.

so much of tech innovation is trying to repackage blatantly abhorrent ideas into forms you don't think so hard about

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

It's vitally important that Kristi Noem still be held accountable

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

“No to War” — Spain PM Sánchez Doubles Down on Defiance Against Trump Demands Pedro Sánchez condemned other world leaders for using "the smoke screen of war to conceal their failures."

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez reiterated Spain's opposition to the war in Iran, condemning the war for causing suffering among civilians while “lining the pockets” of a select few and for other leaders “to use the smoke screen of war to conceal their failures” – an apparent jab at Trump.

Isaac Chotiner absolutely can simply walk into Mordor, sit down and interview Sauron, and then a few hours later after he’s gone Sauron looks and goes “Well when you say it like that it looks bad.”

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

A list of countries that have been hit by missiles / drones in the past 48 hours:

- Iran
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Palestine (Gaza)
- Iraq
- Oman
- Afghanistan
- Cyprus

Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed a regional war that will impact millions

What it is Like to Accidentally be Trapped in a Country at War

By Zack Davisson

Hey! You seen on the news of evacuation orders for Americans whose vacation was suddenly disrupted by a little war as a treat? Well, it happened to me too.

Gather round for story time! Destination, EGYPT!!!

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I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

I'm reading a bunch of Coruna reports after dinner because I am a cool person who knows how to party. Of particular interest: not only does Coruna not work against iOS in lockdown mode, but if it even detects lockdown mode running, it bails. This is why I talk about lockdown mode so damn much.

eventually we'll get to the heads in jars phase of 1946 presidents

Meme. Painting of two eels in the water. They are yellow, and so is the background, so it's unclear if these are yellow eels, or eels seen through a yellow filter. They don't much care, I would guess. The eels are dark on top, and are casting shadows below them, such that they seem like eel sandwiches stuffed into the bread of darkness. They deserve names, so we shall call one of the Olivort and the other Trovilo. You can decide which is which. One is looking to the left, and one is looking back over its metaphorical shoulder to the right. Neither is looking at you, and I think that's a choice. You should maybe spend some time thinking about why, and then try to move forward and live your life as the sort of person that eels would want to look at. Meme text reads: "Weir gonna climb Right over your dam"

Let's talk about eels & dams. 'Cause dams are a problem for eels now, but they haven't always been.

Eels can live out of water for a while, & travel overland. Young eels climb up & around small waterfalls as they migrate. And so many medieval dams weren't a problem for them. 1/7
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Lately* I find myself missing the convenience of living on a college campus. Being able to walk after dinner to a building where something is happening with people is highly underrated.

*I don't know how lately, I've definitely been thinking about this for a few years.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Shout out to the @theatlantic.com for platforming my stalker now know as the DC metro hair toucher!

What we know, final edition—in 2 parts.

1. Progressives oust 3 Dems who were helping GOP in NC.
2. Dems flip legislative seat in AR.
3. Al Green + Dan Crenshaw down big.
4. #TXSen? Talarico up. GOP runoff.
5. Right holds supreme court seat in AR, but no blowout.
6. TX far-right generally strong.