this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy
Ohtani cranks a grand slam in team Japan’s first game of the 2026 WBC.
In Tokyo.
Blessed to be alive to see this. Sound UP.
I don’t think he’s wearing his seatbelt
This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.
This brings the total number of traffic fatalities reported by the LBPD in 2026 to 12. By comparison, there were just 2 in Long Beach last year at this time, and 2025 ended up having the highest number of traffic fatalities in any year since 1990.
Hahahaahhaa hell yeah. The future rules! THE FUTURE RULES!
Saw headline and thought, "Oof, guess they didn't like the return of Scrubs!" But subhead said "older, wiser and funner," so I Google'd "rude health UK meaning" and turns out it means "someone who is exceptionally robust, strong, and in very good health."
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/scrubs-...
This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
haters will say AI is a bust, when it has clearly made Bloody Mary real
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
if you need something, get it now before consumer electronics becomes another sacrifice we make to the AGI gods
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Not that this is in any way a metric, but I’m 5th gen Japanese-American who grew up in Hawaii. My great grandfather went to Yale (I fell very far from THAT tree), tried to enlist in WWI (yes, one) and loved sushi and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Fuck your “common culture.”
This was this morning. Don't believe anything Homan says.
a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
Devon Witherspoon revealed in a radio interview that Mike Macdonald identified from film study that the Patriots offensive linemen were effectively tipping their pitches with their stances.
Put that in the pantheon of Super Bowl coaching contributions.
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
![The advertising during the game stood out for a high number of celebrity cameos and advertisements for futuristic technology, particularly for products like electric vehicles, virtual reality and cryptocurrency.[136][137][138][139] There were many cryptocurrency-related ads drawing comparisons to dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000,[140][141] leading some to refer to the game as the "Crypto Bowl".[142][143]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreievce7ps4onya4r7lnkhyunbnuniltxqhynyysdz3ratcfzlsah3a)
The advertising during the game stood out for a high number of celebrity cameos and advertisements for futuristic technology, particularly for products like electric vehicles, virtual reality and cryptocurrency.[136][137][138][139] There were many cryptocurrency-related ads drawing comparisons to dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000,[140][141] leading some to refer to the game as the "Crypto Bowl".[142][143]
does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked?
anyway
What’s also great is reading the dialogue with Claude where it stops and says “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important” and reveals it deleted every single photo. Software built for dunces
the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers
The Wind Will Carry Us
For those wondering, there’s been no “draw-down.”
when you loot and steal and refuse to return the world’s artifacts but still rely on fucking AI slop
"What day/night will be the wildest party on your island" is exactly what I say to people when i am "REFUSING" to associate with them
www.404media.co/musk-to-epst...
Man the fuck up and start protecting your people. Tell your state police to start arresting these criminals. Mobilize the Guard and tell them they are to take NO orders from a demented tyrant who is executing innocents in the street.
You swore a fucking oath to the Constitution.
#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
