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Holy shit, Cathy, I trust you're okay.

Okay but consider this

My Waymo driver today played my favorite song and made me feel really special and it was pretty nice

"I am actively becoming less informed about the world while surrounding myself with robots who praise me," may be apex 21st Century American Man.

Thank you for everything you’ve done so far, Jay. Can’t wait to see what you and the team do next.

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

Rewatching Our Flag Means Death. Remember when gay pirates ruled TV and everything wasn’t burning?

uh

me

literally the only thing I actually want AI to do for me is make slides (and it cannot, the slides it makes are shit)

I can make a good presentation, I can refine my talk, I can memorize it, but oh god I hate making slides so much, with the hate of a thousand fiery suns

Oh, and the H. P. Lovecraft art! That's what got me drawn into your work back in the 80s.

The most common misconception about consumer privacy is the idea that some company is going to hide you from the FBI for $5/month.

Either they're lying or misleading you, or they genuinely haven't been pressured into complying (because they aren't a significant barrier to the FBI finding you).

(In before "Oh he has a Black friend and also he made that one movie that one time about a badass Black woman therefore QED he can't be racist": No. Go sit down.)

Also Tarantino's an asshole so fuck that guy

She's right tho

People make snide comments about Tarantino's foot fetish but dude, I don't care about people's kinks, I hate his movies because I don't want to go sit through two and a half hours of "Quentin Tarantino casts himself as a guy who only says the N-word." It's gross.

Your brain and data may be in the internet, a world that is both everywhere and nowhere. But your ass is still firmly planted in the jurisdiction of somebody's courts. And police.

Proton is correct. The odds of you finding a company that won't comply with its local police are basically zero.

Hello yes I would like to order one (1) entire fucking season of F1 racing like this please yes and thank you

Made a bad joke that no one got apparently

Over and over and over, Flavor Flav just does the damn thing. This is how you /actually/ support female athletes.

Bye

NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN Every day, thousands of removal requests flow into the Lumen Database — the public archive where the internet's most powerful actors are forced to show their work. Most requests are routine. Some are weapons. When copyright attorney Marcus Vega files a takedown notice targeting Clearwire, a scrappy digital rights nonprofit, he expects the usual: compliance, a form letter, maybe a sternly worded reply. What he gets instead is Eli Marsh - Clearwire's counternotice specialist, former EFF researcher, and the most infuriating person Marcus has ever had the professional misfortune of opposing. Eli knows the law. He also knows Marcus - knows his firm's clients, his win rate, the pattern of industries he protects. What Eli can't account for is what happens when the two of them end up at the same internet governance conference in Geneva, arguing in bad faith over cocktails until they're not arguing at all.

The notices keep coming. So do the counternotices. So do the emails that start as legal correspondence and become something neither of them can quite name. Marcus has spent his career making inconvenient things disappear. Eli has spent his making sure they can't. Between them sits every question the internet has failed to answer about who gets to control what's public, what's private, and who decides. Some things, it turns out, can't be taken down. For readers of Heated Rivalry, Better Than People, and anyone who has ever found themselves deeply, inconveniently attracted to someone who sends documents with tracked changes turned on.

I asked Claude to generate a book jacket blurb for a novel inspired by Heated Rivalry and the Lumen database, and, umm…

Would

Oh, I'm so sorry. Sometimes the greatest thing you can do is give a creature some love and comfort in its last moments, as hard as it is.

He doesn't care about the protocol, he's just Big Mad that people are using it for something other than lauding him as the visionary god he clearly is.

I'm losing the ability to contrive law school exam hypotheticals that are more absurd than the actual news

Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here:

"I guess."

I've got two:

I was fired from my job as a librarian for hacking the library's database.

I was fired from my job at a tanning salon because I wouldn't get a tan.

(If we ever play Two Truths And A Lie, now you know.)

Accurate

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Mostly Pritzker lately. And AOC, but the rest of this stupid party keeps sidelining her.

Agreed. I use the hell out of Claude and have found it to be much more pleasant to use than OpenAI (and less obsequious in tone, which sets my teeth on edge).

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11