this is how it feels to have type one diabetes in the united states

You know, I thought America would be the more absurd country about Christmas season's start date, given the "war on Christmas rhetoric that's been around forever...

But one of my years here in the UK, I saw advent calendars for sale in September. They don't even wait for October to end, at large.

If you haven't dated as a dude recently,

It's bad out there, my guys!

He's just like me

FFS "antifa" is just a bunch of guys.

It's not an organization. It's people who don't like what the government is doing to it's own people.

My media colleagues in this country are so fucking stupid.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.

Some Cynders for your feed #CynderCommunityDay

Brother's spittin'

[cn suicide]

Reminder that strong privacy isn't designed to aid criminals but to protect the vulnerable in a world that tries to track everything you do and rat you out any chance it gets. It's not "paranoia towards the government".

(that said, vxug should really get their asses of twitter, jfc)

Putting far more effort into this than I reasonably should tbh

While I never charge friends for repair work (...except possible material cost, unless I have it laying around), I feel like I should be allowed one (1) free slap in their face whenever they confront me with with shit like this

The thing to me is that if Nvidia is valued higher than like all of Big Pharma combined, the AI dream at this point can only pay off if it somehow manages to obliterate the entire need for white collar workers. And that will just cause mass unemployment and a consumer drought.

when I worked at Frye's, their metrics were based on how many Norton subs they sold. to the point they had us essentially giving them away. conning customers into adding Norton they didn't want to purchases that made us no money

anyway, time is a flat circle

Can't wait for the AI push to become a core part of textbooks about the American Century of Humiliation, and also the most tired "why are people in the past dumber than us?" prompt of the 2100s

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HEARTWARMING: The worst person you know gets stuck in a kiln

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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