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Age verification has a bias that diminishes how cruel, bloody, and inhumane the world can be, and that's going to have real consequences www.404media.co/uk-users-nee...

if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...

an AR-15 is a truly remarkable piece of technology -- fully modular, unbelievably customizable, good in both close combat and long-range firefights absolutely an insane thing to sell to the general public

The lawsuit alleges Meta "willfully and intentionally" infringed "at least 2,396 movies" as part of a strategy to download terabytes of data as fast as possible.

There’s been plenty written about interim U.S. Attorney in LA Bill Essayli, and it appears to have only emboldened him. Today he moved to dismiss the civil rights case against ex-sheriff’s deputy Trevor Kirk, after the judge denied Kirk bail on his four-month prison sentence.

The White House search for partners in its global gulag has grown to 64 nations. Most of them are notorious violators of human rights. theintercept.com/2025/07/29/t...

Japan has issued a tsunami warning along the eastern coast, after an 8.7 magnitude earthquake off of Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Japanese government expects tsunami as high as 3 meters and is issuing evacuation orders. Hoping all the affected communities will be safe.

posting this for no reason in particular www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-...

Going to be a long night for our friends in the Pacific. Blessings upon them: weather.com/news/news/20...

macOS Tahoe Beta 1 → 4 icon changes

the important thing is to hold it against these fucks e.g. Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway if they promote shit, make it hurt their personal reputation also it turns out when Swisher was pumping crypto in the press she didn't disclose her $300k in bitcoin amycastor.com/2022/05/23/k...

the saddest apple product to have to buy

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers are trying to get him out of jail. “There are exceptional circumstances warranting a departure from mandatory detention and ensuring that Sean Combs is released.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

iOS control volume of AirPods separately

We’re reporting live updates on the 8.8-magnitude Russia earthquake. Follow along: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Maybe they should change the button to say, "I am a robot"?

Use your local MP's driving license as ID use-their-id.com

Earlier this month, the FDA sent Whoop a letter saying its new blood pressure tech needed regulatory clearance. Whoop whipped out the W word: wellness. And so I think it's time we talk about semantics and increasingly murky line between medical + wellness tech. www.theverge.com/health/71510...

The incident has already progressed from a media complaint to a state probe to an Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office investigation in just a few days.

Split Fiction uses rumble so often the Switch 2 Pro Controller linear vibration motors overheat and shut off.

logged into fb for the first time in forever and it's like two posts from friends and then a bunch of stuff from feeds i don't follow

we go to a presbyterian church, our pastor is non-binary

Google's half measures are forcing its customers to continue using hobbled devices that may still burst into flames, and that doesn't seem like a great way to manage the situation.

While Brendan Carr's FCC has claimed there's precedent for the bias monitor, the example cited in the approval points to a situation that's far different from last week's merger.

Trump recently confessed that he had threatened to break up Nvidia before he even knew what one of the world's most valuable AI companies even did.

indeed why, for a nation founded on puritanism, chattel slavery, and genocidal ethnic cleansing

"The positive trend extends beyond fatalities. In the past year, there were 277 injury-causing traffic accidents in Helsinki — a sharp contrast to the nearly 1,000 injurious accidents recorded annually in the late 1980s"

Futurehome's move has unfortunately become a common strategy among Internet of Things companies.

Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/29/c... - text pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250729-cop... - podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4me... - video

Born and raised ex-Texan here, you gotta have *strong* ties to that state to want to stick around, much less move there.

man, the tech job market. fuckloads of SC/DV in a bunker in Hertfordshire come and build drones for ukraine! they're totally for ukraine bro, honest! (actual recruiter pitch) we're certainly not sending any of these to israel now i know the head office is in israel, but --

Democrats clash on the Senate floor on how to take on Trump: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

NEW: Apple has lost its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta, marking the latest setback to the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence efforts. The company’s top multi-modal expert Bowen Zhang is heading to Superintelligence. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

so Seraphinne Vallora admitted that their "AI fasion" image is not a AI creation, it's an ordinary fashion shoot that they then AI-ed up a bit. Like I said. they then try to turn this failure into a brag. they're still selling their £89 how-to-prompt guide, btw. www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/

I know not everyone had the same upbringing but I was taught that it is *bad manners* to enter a bookstore and not buy at least one book—a book of post-its, a notebook, anything, *especially* if you are taking photos of it for your little Instagram thing, good god man

this still has not been corrected

Is this iPhone 17 Pro? New photos making the rounds on social media show someone supposedly filming an iPhone 17 Pro on the streets of Los Angeles, CA. The device is just weeks away from its official debut.

the key thing about the goth subculture is it has no members, just ask one

chatgpt is a warhammer dork www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

The algo keeps showing me videos of other stationery nerds all freaking out over the 9/1 hobonichi drop for 2026 planners and all I can think is fuck 2025 is almost over?!?!?!

OH BOY IT'S FREE FOR ALL TIME www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre... the purpose is for big bitcoin holders to dump their holdings without immediately crashing the price, because volumes are so low

Despite the film's shortcomings (which are primarily plot-related), it's still a fun, entertaining superhero saga and a decent start to the MCU's Phase Six.

my usual baseline is a kind of high-functioning excessive optimism, but today it's fully sunk in that things are going to get so, so much worse before they get better like, shit that we will be telling historians about is going to happen

fucken who invented working jobs i just wanna talk

my only contribution to the sydney sweeney discourse is that american eagle was my favorite in HS because it was probably the closest thing to a cool store we had in roanoke. i still have a peacoat from it that i only recently stopped wearing because it’s starting to fall apart

That’s one way to put it

I've been running in Central Park the last week after not having run there in a year. It is so so crowded with runners. And I've seen a few runners doing selfie videos (which is new to me). It's a very vibrant running scene for 6:30 a.m. Is this the 'running clubs are the new dating app' effect?

Firefly has had a mixed record as of late, which could give investors pause ahead of the company's IPO.

AI, the great enshittifier

news: three Washington Post standouts — Mike Semel, Monica Norton and Ann Gerhart — are leaving the newspaper, per email from Matt Murray just now

from the company that brought you "decommercializing nazi blogs is censorship"

This guy is three years older than I am

Had a blast hanging with Ed and Dave! Forgive me lord for uttering the phrase "downstream Labubu culture." 😩

man i haven't been here in so long

I need somebody more rigorous than me to make the case that splitting media into "desexualized serious art" and "mindless porn" is both a disservice to art and a way to shut down discussion of sexuality in culture, because a defining element of porn is that it sits beyond serious commentary.

[fukuyama laser eyes]

I don't know that these are directly related, but this Schedule A case dropped around the same time that the Trump Org moved to stop a MAGA-themed Instant Pot (yes that's an actual thing). Kind of weird timing because plans for the item were announced last month. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Worth remembering that Epstein was, generally, embedded in the science and tech world in ways that were far more than incidental www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20...

The best-case silver lining for the rise of age verification is that it drives people to reconnect offline, except that the people hit hardest are often also the ones with the steepest barriers to finding nearby in-person communities.

Elon Musk once promised to build three-dimensional mazes of tunnels with articulating sleds and hyerloops with The Boring Company Now it more closely resembles a glorified convention center people-mover: techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/e...

I’ve been part of four universities, one of which is under attack by the Trump admin. I haven’t heard from any of them, on a regular basis, except for appeals for money. Same with the Democratic Party. And NPR and PBS.

The FDA requires all estrogen-containing products to display a black box safety label — the most severe packaging requirement — claiming that they increase the risk of breast cancer, heart attacks and dementia, Dr. Leana Wen writes. "Here’s the problem: It’s not accurate." wapo.st/455zg7L

A good boy experiencing his first subway shitshow

I’d like to file a class action against the weather. Very biased against middle-aged women

i thought the most interesting part of the farritor story was how much his dad was reliant on federal funding for his work

I'm finally listening to the audiobook of this, it's great

"In a keynote address at the ETech Conference several years back, Stone described one consequence of becoming habituated to drinking from this fire hose of information as “an artificial sense of constant crisis.”" thesystemsthinker.com/continuous-p...

govt and corporate savings > consumer savings (not to mention all the health problems this will cause/exacerbate)

love to be in the middle of summer while on two different medications that both are dehydrating, truly out here chugging water like it is my job, pedialyte popsicles when will you sponsor me???????

idk he doesn't want to get divorced?

it’s not even 10am and we’re talking about the zootopia comic at work

Chuck E. Cheese busted www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

AI doomsday cultist suggests spreading the good word of AI doomsday culting with a BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE!! All reference links are from ChatGPT. www.lesswrong.com/posts/4unfQY...

"This is the kind of lower-court activism that gives the Trump administration fodder for its attacks on judges," the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/4mjpiqv

Scrolling through Bluesky these days feels much like it ever did on Twitter, doom-wise.

Lately I have been afflicted by weird spam texts posing as wrong numbers. One was a dinner invitation. Another wanted a ride from the airport. When I said it was a wrong number, the texter tried to engage in further conversation. I guess people are lonely or dumb enough to fall for whatever this is

Maybe it’s just me but these David’s bars remind me of paste and glue www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/b...

Trump accusing Harvard of antisemitism is as ridiculous.

the only time i overhear people talk about tech companies in [redacted neighborhood where i live] is when they're talking about epic's acquisition of bandcamp

This should be the @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social photo of the day

t'rump raised the question if he was more than just a client, possibly he was a pimp, in competition with epstein.

I am also getting daily voice messages from multiple numbers claiming to be a tax relief center that will help me with my nonexistent IRS audit.