Month: May 2025
Miraculum
every airplane flight is, for me, a spiritual experience. we dreamed of flying for *thousands* of years. we tried, we failed. we told stories, we found belief, we scavenged materials, we deciphered secrets. then one day, in an unimaginable future, we now fly on wings of dreams.
โ David (@DavidSHolz) May 17, 2025
We live daily surrounded by and ensconced in miracles. Now our quest is not to extend these marvels into the future but to destroy them in the present. In our apathy, the future has become unimaginable and the declaration of the impossibility of further wonders taken for shrewd insight and obvious truth — despite all history and evidence pointing to its risibility.
The left is no less guilty of this than the right. As I’ve said before, we needed new minds and did not achieve them. Now we will pay the price.
Conv Trap
Why do people use Spotify and crap like that, with how much it takes away from them and steals from them?
Convenience (as with smartphones) is a trap, operationally and cognitively.
In the United States, the fightback has begun.
How safe is the food supply after federal cutbacks? Experts are worried.
Meta is working on a high-tech helmet for the U.S. military. Must watch 30 seconds of ads before you can return fire.
HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu. Moronic as always these days.
The Fed Forecasts Stagflation.
I Thought David Horowitz Was a Jokeโbut He Foreshadowed the Trump Coalition.
How DOGEโs grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring.
The Wall Street Journal Admits ItโCapitalism is a Miserable Tyranny.
Drop Ship Has Sailed
When I go to work conferences and people try to hand me their old laptops randomly.
First of all, Karen, I’m not the laptop recycling depot. We have an MSP for that.
Second of all, I flew here just like you did. What the fuck do you think I am going to do with your and half a dozen other people’s machines? I don’t have room in my carry-on for eight laptops (I already carry two myself).
Third, I’d never presume to just walk up to someone and just hand them random junk. What the hell is wrong with people? I know too many see us overpaid computer janitors but that doesn’t mean I am gonna act like one.
85 Alive
It’s 85 in my office area. At the edge of too warm for me.
I love (climatological) summer.
HHHHHHHTTP
I have to use seven different browsers to mimic even a fraction of pre-gimped Firefox’s power.
The future sucks.
Gmail Crapp
The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not.
FUCK THAT. I don’t use Gmail anyway. Yet another reason not to.
Leto s Monikou – Asi ma mรกลก
The language is Slovak — that might be the only song I have in that language. And it’s a good one.
Soap&Skin – Italy
Whoever was the DoP on this vid knew a thing or two about a thing or two. Beautiful.
Magic
She does a great job of learning a song in 40 minutes. And what a fun personality!
GRADuated to the Moon
FPV drone strike on the fully loaded Russian Grad MLRS by the Birds of Magyar unit. pic.twitter.com/gEtM86So8F
— Special Kherson Cat ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@bayraktar_1love) May 29, 2025
Damn. Should buff right out.
Five-year study suggests chimpanzees strike stones against trees as form of communication.
What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours.
What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway.
The Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Structure Formation in the Universe.
Trump orders agencies to cut all federal ties with Harvard.
How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully.
Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill.
In a county that backed Trump, people depend on Medicaid and are conflicted about cuts. FAFO.
Susan Brownmiller, whose landmark book changed attitudes on rape, dies at 90.
Critical weather service scrambles for staff after DOGE cuts. MAGA clowns should be expatriated to Somalia.
The staggering numbers: Tech layoffs at 646 per day.
The GOPโs Medicaid โWaste, Fraud, and Abuseโ Lie. The MAGA clowns believe poor believe are inherently “waste, fraud and abuse.”
The New Dark Age. The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
Fund
Saying the only way to fund trade schools is via cuts to scientific and medical research at Harvard is the Trump equivalent to the woke demand that social services should be financed by defunding police.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 27, 2025
It’s also similar to the left’s assertion that if we could just not send those evil and bad rockets to evil bad and scary space, we’d be able to fund everything.