Phil Nelson

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Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.

A couple of young, viral developers are making $500,000 a month with ‘Quittr’; an app to help people with porn addiction. Insane money, living in a mansion, etc. We found they exposed the masturbation habits of 100,000s of users, then lied about fixing it www.404media.co/viral-quittr...

*I don't like to fingerpoint at Andrej Karpathy as a major source of "Stanfordketamine," but Andrej does have a doctorate from Stanford

*Also most Stanfordketamine people just screech and handwave while Andrey releases code

Our fearless volunteers standing behind a promo table at Oracle Park.

We're at the opening night party at Oracle Park! Try our library demo and learn about history n stuff! #GDC2026

Photo of a small packet labeled LaserParts with a grid pattern printed all over the packet

Relax it’s just a belt

Sounds cool

Tell me about it

Nirvanna The Band the Show?

Noted

I need media suggestions, stat.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

whoa

FWIW the fictional governing body of the show lore, the House, was formed because rampant betting and interference/cheating by the rich accidentally caused WW I. hah haaah but that would never happen.

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I’m bad at promotion but if you have a podcast (and I know you do) please invite me on it. I’m a delight.

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

*I wonder how many activities can be vibed besides "vibe coding."

Is a "kinetic military operation" a "vibe war," for instance.

Is a selfie a "vibe portrait."

Is social media virality "vibe journalism."

Is life extension "vibe healthcare"

S.F. immigration courts gutted: 21 judges down to 2 after planned departures At the start of last year, San Francisco's two immigration courts had 21 judges. By mid-March there will just be two left.

San Francisco's immigration courts have been gutted.

Two more judges are planning to leave, Mission Local has learned, meaning the courts will be down from 21 judges last year to just two.

That pushes court dates out, & costs up, for asylum-seekers.
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Bobby “The Brain” Heenan right about Hulk Hogan all along

Spectacle website in 1996

Urban Diary website in 1997

Conscience Records website in 1998

p2 output website in 1998

Grunge Web Design Style in the 1990s

– Spectacle in 1996
– Urban Diary in 1997
– Conscience Records in 1998
– p2 output in 1998

#WebDesignHistory

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Writing my great work, Gaslighting Bobby: The Machines in WWF

They think, or at least pretend to think, that this doesn’t sound like obvious cope to everyone in the world

It’s an entire White House comms shop built on the premise of “my hot girlfriend lives in Canada” being believed by normal people

It’s wild that you can get a lot of MiniDisc players for less than the cost of any random MD album release. The prices are outta control

@jeriellsworth.bsky.social emails, begging, etc

@foone.bsky.social Hello. I’ve waited here for you… Averlong

In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."

"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot A first-ever trial against an alleged ‘antifa cell’ in Texas could be a playbook for cracking down on administration critics.

"The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy: photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called zines."

No paywall: archive.ph/whWm0

Noem dropping a little, uh, parting gift for the mayor as she’s fired was not on my bingo card

they were gonna send Kristi Noem to a nice farm upstate but they were worried about the safety of the dogs

Look What You Made Us Patch: 2025 Zero-Days in Review | Google Cloud Blog Our analysis of 90 zero-day vulnerabilities tracked in 2025, focusing on techniques and how AI will accelerate the vulnerability landscape.

"For the first time since we began tracking zero-day exploitation, we attributed more zero-days to commercial surveillance vendors than to traditional state-sponsored cyber espionage groups."

Love to see the stats backing up my hunch.

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