My birthday today. How has it been another year? I just looked in the mirror & I can confirm that I am officially old af. I’m going to celebrate the day by drawing fun art & signing all those Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen books you've been ordering. https://helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311530238
Breaking News: Daily Beast | Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund Hit By Bombshell Leak
"A bombshell leak has revealed that the Justice Dept was advised to shut down Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS before settling with the president by creating a $1.8 billion fund for MAGA loyalists. IRS lawyers intended to contest Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the agency and advised the DOJ to move to dismiss it..."
"...a corrupt giveaway of taxpayer money to the president’s allies."
Evropská unie (EU) v noci na středu dosáhla předběžné dohody o legislativě, která má zrušit dovozní cla na průmyslové zboží z USA.
👉 Jde o klíčovou součást obchodní dohody s Washingtonem, která by měla zabránit zavedení vyšších amerických cel na výrobky z EU. Informovaly o tom agentury Reuters a DPA s odvoláním na kyperské předsednictví EU a europoslankyni Željanu Zovkovou, hlavní vyjednavačku pro obchodní dohodu.
🔗 Více v článku: https://czch.tv/94anQY
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kurtsh/116604457058563194
If it’s flooded, floor it
@jpm
“You can’t park there.” 😐
I wonder what he wished for.
Fun (true) fact: he actually asked for Disney not to do any Genie merchandising. They accepted, then merchandised it to death anyway. They feuded for years after that.
Félix, le "Maghrébin" de #Ruffin, donne sa version, bien différente de celle de la BD
I've sketched out an explanation for why electoral parties moved away from welfarism. In short, they followed the money.
But why do most of those who still support the idea of social welfare, on both sides of the aisle, do it in a nostalgic way? Why do they want to "go back"? Rather than imagining a new society that retrieves some of what was abandoned during the decades of the corporatist coup, while retaining the many social and technological advances we've still made despite it?
(8/?)
David Graeber attempted an answer in his 2015 book The Utopia of Rules. Particularly in an essay first published in 2012, entitled Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit;
"Given a choice between a course of action that would make capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and one that would transform capitalism into a viable, long-term economic system, neoliberalism chooses the former every time."
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit
(9/?)
For as long as you can remember, time has always slowed down for you during moments of danger.
This power is automatic and time returns to normal once you are out of peril.
One day, however, the world stops, and you can't figure out why.
@catsalad Not quite the same thing, but I’m reminded of the situation the protagonist found herself in at the end of “The Twilight Zone” season 1, episode 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Peace_and_Quiet
When I do a web search, I do not want Google to go to the websites for me, pull the information, and interpret it for me. I want it to give me a list of websites that I can read and evaluate myself because AI is frequently wrong: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
The fossil fuel interests behind Google's product development decisions aren't benign.
#PrinceBonesaw has his own agenda.
Information pollution to match his climate pollution & public corruption.
https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/mbs-despot-in-the-desert
https://archive.is/qddWQ
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
Koch Network has powerful allies in its ongoing anti-democracy propaganda efforts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html
The leader of the team behind the #AmazonLeo satellite broadband network reveals how Jeff Bezos got the ball rolling in the connectivity competition with SpaceX's #Starlink. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-leo-leaders-inside-look-satellite-past-future/ #Space #Tech #TechAlliance #Amazon
@ryanl love it or hate it, we aren’t going to have a choice. I’m sure WWDC next month will just be a copy of I/O, with Apple playing catch up.
@mrcippy I'm not anti AI. Though I do have moral quandries in that I'm not for all the data centers it is creating. I don't love virtually any of the AI companies nor their leadership.
But AI itself has a purpose and a use as a tool. Listening to podcasts like AI Inside by Jason Howell or Life With Machines by Baratunde Thurston give me some hope.
#OtD 20 May 1969 19-year-old Black Panther Alex Rackley was murdered in New Haven, CT by fellow activists after wrongly being accused of being a police informant, amidst a campaign of infiltration and badjacketing by the FBI and police. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7836/alex-rackley-murdered
Ohh! A little important btw:
Currently the website of #Trump Mobile is leaking all customer data except for Credit Card..
On top of being scammed your data is now also freely available
The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.
We are going to need a wholesale reconstruction of the U.S. federal government if we are ever to restore anything like rule of law and pluralistic democracy in the U.S. I know I have said this before, but it bears repeating. If Democrats gain control of one or even both houses in the midterms they may be able to limit just a bit of what Trump, with Roberts Court, can do but that will be only a small patch on a government that must be completely overhauled. 1/
@heidilifeldman
BRAVO!
Idk about the CEO sleepout
@evcricket I’d enthusiastically support it with one minor change - that the CEOs get all their shit stolen and then kicked out of where they’re sleeping by the venue’s security guards.
I cannot express how much I love this 🥲
Je suis vraiment beaucoup trop fier de cette blague…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116603070039160133
Actually trying to find the source for this, it appears to be from one of those “1,000 things to do on the Web” books from the Y2K era.
I have some books coming to see if it’s in any one of them.
If you search online for this (in a real search engine, not Google) you will find a lot of random Reddit threads that all say it’s an “ad” despite it clearly not being an ad and all images of it are always this specific angled image, just with different crops.
Trying to find the truth where it’s from so stay tuned.
There's a very good chance that this 1999 article was the original source for the phrase in the picture:
"Google is a “pure” search engine. No news, email, chat, stock quotes, or other trappings offered by the major portals."
https://searchengineland.com/on-googles-21st-birthday-a-look-back-in-time-322721
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