#NeedsMoreLikes

[euansmith]

Twitter installs giant metal "X" on roof--without the required permit, say officials

“Look, the Twat Signal!”

[smulder]

@Faffenreffer

What remains of the old Republican party hasn’t quite gotten the message that it’s been eaten from the inside out by something younger, dumber, and meaner than itself; it lies where it fell - moribund and bleating little noises of protest while the parasitic wasps that hollowed it out boil incoherently around it

[Sally_Mahoney]

DeSantis gets called out for lying about abortion

Dear Ron, No one wants you in their uterus, bedroom, or library. Please take your daddy knows best fascist sideshow and fall in a deep hole. Sincerely, Everybody PS- Maybe you and Ted Cruz can form a club.

[smulder]

@jaded

Trumpf is like a centrifuge for enriching stupidity. The more he spins, the stupider his remarks get and the more dense his followers become.

[Sally_Mahoney]

DeSantis's laws and policies have Florida educators fleeing the state and the profession

We should just call it what it is- Florida is trying to outlaw education. There’s nothing incidental about any of these effects, this is exactly the goal. Dismantle higher education in an attempt to deny reality through censorship, with the end goal of nurturing an ignorant, white supremacist, Bible-thumping fascist population.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Crappy AI knockoff books are already topping the publishing charts

I wonder if the flood of AI-generated dreck overwhelming modern day search results could bring some kind of silver lining to librarians and archivists. Now that we can’t rely on search engines to separate the good stuff from the bad anymore we may see a newfound appreciation for human experts who actually know how to sort and categorize information. Or not… but one can dream.

[robertmckenna]

I don’t know. This deluge of AI and other content farm clickbait rising to the top, even Markov chain written books flooding Amazon, is not in any sense new. It’s been 20 years of it. And all it has led to is further attempts to outsource the selection of sources to opaque algorithms.

Capitalism is the problem, not technology. Capital disrupts - breaks - that which works but isn’t what it calls “productive”” - ie providing returns to those who own the means of production through capital. It is replaced with something which may or may not work, but is “productive”. And which diminishes the power of labour.

Really that’s all it’s about. Those who own capital at war on those who work.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Smithsonian's collection of human brains was "gathered without consent"

So a bigot gathers up a bunch of brains so he can “prove” how white brains are superior, probably due to having some sort of deep seated insecurities about his own intelligence, but… how exactly did he plan to judge what qualities made a brain superior? Springiness? Wrinkliness? Color? Flavor?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Police request railings and other hostile architecture in cemetery to prevent people from having sex on the tombstones

“Sex on the tombstones” sounds like either a drink or diner slang for a grilled cheese with tomato.

[chenille]

Science figures it out: "social media’s addictive loop compels users to share mindlessly"

Damned right! God creatives are in a bind. Imagine a society where the impulse to create and share with other humans, the instict to build communities around that, is seen as an exploitable psychological defect and a moral failing? Now stop imagining… we’re here. Analysis like this just basically re-affirms that all human creativity is directly under attack. It’s literally being pathologized now and yet how the hell are you supposed to make and share and sell and collaborate while avoiding s…

[DukeTrout]

@TornPaperNapkin is on fire with awesome posts lately!

Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster"

TBH the point of sports ought to be to share joy in the unique extremes of talent that humans develop when doing these EXTREMELY ARBITRARILY VALUED feats designed to showcase various human skillcaps for fun and money… By which I mean to say what we value and how and why is something we can control thus sports can become whatever we want 'em to be.

For elegantly stating an eviscerating argument, you have my applause!

[smulder]

@HMSGoose

Naps are all I have now.

[hecep]

Thank you!!!

[MerelyGifted]

'Twere well deserved!

[Sally_Mahoney]

Alabama refuses to comply with a Federal court order demanding equal representation for Black people

Why, it’s almost like racism is a national problem that doesn’t stop at the Mason-Dixon line! But that can’t be right? /s

[smulder]

@RickMycroft

Hypothesis: At some point Elon Musk stepped into a teleportation booth, but unknown to him Elon Musk was also in the booth. Now he’s gradually turning into Elon Musk.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Powerpoint creator Dennis Austin dead at 76

I despise Powerpoint in an engineering setting. Its fine for showing images with a small amount of overlaid text (“the widget causes interference here”). Its fine for summarizing key points of a report, so long as you reference the report. Its fine for acting as a support aid for a training session. But using the tool to slow a slideshow of 20 pictures of something in a row, or to be the report resulting in a 500 slide presentation, or to compress all of the training text onto slides is an atr…

[Mindysan33]

Vice Media's credibility in tatters after kowtowing to Saudi censorship

They have no answer to my counter that they are the real prog rock. Inaccessible to all but the rich, but have lots of fans regardless.

People here say that they are real music nerds, but the fact that this comment doesn’t have more likes makes me wonder…

[ETA]

The Spider-Man 2 video game will go beyond Manhattan, into Brooklyn and Queens

The Chrysler building bit doesn’t feel to me like it’s in the spirit of the purpose of copyright. The point of copyrighting a building would be to prevent someone from actually reproducing your building. Let’s say an architect designs a unique and interesting residential house and sells the design to a developer who builds it. And then another developer builds an exact copy without acquiring the rights to the building design. That is a copyright violation. I cannot for the life of me imagine how…

[smulder]

@szielins

People will do a lot of weird things if there might be cake.

[MerelyGifted]

Person with metal detector finds stash of 1,500-year-old gold jewelry

For once being an archaeologist (working in Norway, no less) is a useful trait to have! The proper protocol is to leave it the hell alone as soon as you know it is of archaeological significance. Take a GPS reading, mark it in an unobtrusive way if you think you won’t be able to find it again (and you probably won’t, if you don’t!), and call your local archaeologist. In the case of Norway, this is your local university museum, although you can also try the local council (fylkeskommune) who hav…