In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

No it wouldn’t. It’s always been a dumb idea to get around public mass transit.

Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.

Linux guy whipping out the “Actually, it’s a feature not a bug” line is very funny.

within three to five years

That’s tech speak for “never”

The technology, developed by Borui Kang Medical Technology (Shanghai), is designed to restore hand-movement capabilities in individuals suffering from paralysis.

Specifically, the system targets patients with quadriplegia resulting from cervical spinal cord injuries, enabling them to regain hand-grasping ability through the use of a specialised glove.

Incredible technology, nonetheless.

But crazy to think this would be a commercial public service any time soon

There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month

broadcasters aren’t the press

:-/

“You can say whatever you please, but we reserve the right to make sure nobody can hear you”

Always could. We used to just call it “pimping”

Strictly speaking, AI images violate OnlyFans terms of service.

But otherwise, sure. Who was actually harmed here? If she’d been real, would this have been better somehow?

Amazon Holds Mandatory Meeting After Vibe-Code Triggered Major Outages

~ Mar 11, 2026

Unironically. But only on the condition they bring back Google from 2011

Excited to see smear campaigns that become increasingly surreal and disturbing

Farming non-native species can be incredibly difficult.

Walking up to a game of Three Card Monte and saying “It’s pretty obvious he’s palmed the Queen” mostly just gets you heckled and chased away.

Part of the problem with digital spaces is that you’ve got your person setting up the scam, and then you’ve got your layer of people marketing the scam, and then you’ve got your first layer of suckers who think they are coming out ahead on the scam, and then you’ve got the second layer of suckers who all know a tier-one sucker who just got rich. And then you’ve got the bots and the ideologues and the contrarians and the know-it-alls, all repeating the line that the person who set up the scam encourages them to say.

And it’s over all that cacophony that you announce “It’s obviously a scam”. Then Reddit boots you for violating terms and conditions of the platform.

If there is an authority who recognizes the nft, then it has the utility value of the authority. End of story.

My man has been doomed off by the Anarcho-Capitalist fairy and is currently circling the planet Heinlein.

Etherium was run out of the offices of JP Morgan Chase and NFTs were a gimmick to boost the deal flow of their then-underperforming crypto offering.

It was, by and large, an enormous investment in sales and marketing on top of a ton of insanely shady business practices. Case in point, the infamous Beeple NFT that sold for $69.3M was purchased with Etherium to showcase Christie’s auction house accepting cryptocurrency for auction bids. The winning bidder for artwork was an early crypto adopter and marketer named Vignesh Sundaresan who was flush with these tokens, but lacked any kind of liquid market to sell them into yet. That’s before you get into the Congo Line of largely clueless celebrities going on Late Night comedy shows to plug their online pogs.

It’s trite to say that the whole thing was a scam because… duh. But I think people read this as “just dumb people being stupid with their stupid dumb money” and ignore the layer upon layer of market manipulation and con-artistry that went into making cryptocurrencies what they are today.

The fact that Donald Trump is using them to launder bribes from Middle Eastern dictators and East Asian kleptocrats should illustrate how deep these rabbit holes can go. It’s so much more than just peddling bad clipart to dumb bros.

paywalled article…

Here ya go!

It’s not controversial to want to go after fraud in the system.

It’s highly controversial when the people claiming to investigate fraud are themselves doing fraud.

This is exactly what happened with DOGE, as well. Thiel’s goon squad walked into the beating heart of the executive bureaucracy to start siphoning data and cancelling checks. They’d point at something, say “Fraud!”, stop payments, steal a bunch of personal information, slander random people, fire anyone with a spine thick enough to stand up against them, and then cut themselves giant contractors’ salaries for the privilege.

Reagan had his own variation on this, most notably via Iran-Contra (effectively a massive embezzlement of foreign procured drugs and US military surplus funds), but also via Sewergate, the various lootings of Pentagon, FEMA, and HUD funds, and the mass firing of FAA agents under J. Lynn Helms. All these scandals were downwind of Reaganite claims of corruption, which his appointees were supposed to solve but instead exploited or exacerbated.

This has been true going straight back to the Nixon Administration. The conservative “we’re getting rid of the fraud” playbook is three generations old at this point. They run it, because it works pretty much every time.

People hear “fraud”, they see an AI generated image of a young black man in a pimp outfit driving a Cadillac, and they slam the “GOP Forever” button.

I just want to point out that bombing Iran has been an outspoken political view of the Republican Party for almost 40 years now.

It’s been the political view of the Neocon Wing of the GOP, specifically. After Trump’s win in 2016, a bunch of those neocons jumped ship to join the Democratic Party. So now both parties have this brain parasite of Iran hate digging through their leadership.

They used bombing Iran as a campaign ad against John McCain in the 2008 election.

Ah yes, a classic McCain banger.

Crazy that this was the most moderate voice within the Republican Party.

There’s an abundance of work arounds, for certain. I’ve been using NewPipe for a year or two now.

Mostly just annoying to go through this ritual of jury rigging every new device to use basic Internet services.