TLP:Fred 🦇☠️💾✨️

americans would be terrified if we knew what a "litre" was

#LegalizeIt

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

"FBI warns Lina Khan aspires to rescue nation using the unstoppable power of the Gundam"

"aspired" is such a perfect verb choice. Not a hint of whether there was any capability, plausibility, or even overt acts taken towards the aspiration.

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

i would not have published this story, as someone who's read literally thousands of threat bulletins cosigned or circulated by the FBI

Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of development

www.newscientist.com/article/2518... we have The Matrix at home

we need to address the end of good-paying jobs for melancholics, like lighthouse keeper or fire tower watchers

I hope he feels vindicated right now, rather than cursed with the gift of prophecy.

a man with glasses and a beard is laughing and wearing a bow tie Alt: George Lucas is laughing and wearing a bow tie

you know who else foresaw a major conflict emerging from a regional dispute over trade routes?

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

too true.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

None justice with left peace.

eagerly anticipating the scholarly article explaining how the Buffalo Wild Wingstini is an example of the imperial boomerang that began with dessert hummus.

Experiencing Bij at the optometrist's office

Grammarly will probably find that this ploy doesn’t work in court. If I was one of the authors whose identities they’ve stolen, I’d make it my mission to burn the entire company to the ground.

Libraries are for everybody, or they’re for no one.

great pun, take a bow.

You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

I did this interview with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about Section 230's applicability to "algorithms"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNii...

same vibe:

nominative determinism hall of fame

if the practice of law isn't for you, the moist loam of the forest floor accepts & forgives all in its warm, saprophagous embrace.

he's on here too! I'll admit I've only read Karla's Choice so far; it was damned good.

@nickharkaway.com

They don't teach this in law school, but if a judge says these words to you it's probably best to just walk out into the forest and never return.

Nick Harkaway! he's done some non-spy novels too iirc.

Strait Comparison Lessons Learned from the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign in the Context of a Strait of Hormuz Closure Event Jonathan Schroden CRM D0025888.A1/Final September 2011

I'm sure it's fine, it's not like there's any historic examples of a closed strait combined with shortsighted tactical planning leading to any sort of catastrophe.

www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...

The dictionary woke up this morning and chose violence.