Days since I've instantly left a site when it gave me two or more popups on landing: 0

In other news, billionaire technology wizard doesn't know a ridiculously obvious enhancement artifact when he sees one.

Think about the fact that there are people who want a man this stupid to put chips in their brains.

euroweeklynews.com/2025/02/05/

I just learned that Canada owns about $350bn of U.S. debt.

Everybody sing it now:

Owe Canada! We stand in debt to thee...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government.

[via @adzebill.bsky.social‬]
[Follow IA on BS if you wish: @eotarchive.org]

#internetarchive #archives #uspol #USPolitics

blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/en

Apparently the swift, direct, modern, and well-appointed train service that currently exists between these two cities has the defect of not dumping enough carbon into the atmosphere, eh?

brusselstimes.com/belgium/1409

So for those of us trying to keep up, it's now fine to do a Nazi salute while white, but it's still not okay to go down on one knee while black, right?

Oh, did Trump reverse a whole bunch of Biden’s executive orders that were benefitting and protecting us?

Same Biden who never did anything for any of us? Same admin that accomplished nothing & is the same as the other side if not worse because reasons?

Cool cool cool

Just watched the 2013 film "Coherence". Easily one of the best "soft" screen works I've ever seen; like a long-form, really superior episode of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits or Black Mirror.

Also, very impressive use of no budget whatsoever. Somehow it ends up being a strength of the film.

DON'T read any reviews, and don't worry if your early reaction is to not like many of the characters. Liking them isn't the point.

I guess it works like this: if I go around saying "Costco is giving away free TVs today" and Costco says to people who show up expecting one, "no, we're not", Costco is censoring me.

Number of migrants Ron De Santis has picked up at the Texas border and flown to Martha's Vineyard: around 50.

Number of firefighters Ron De Santis has sent to California: 0

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

Wikipedia's figures suggest that Mexico has around 100km more Gulf coastline than the US does. But I suspect that depends on how fractal you want to get around Louisiana; measuring coastline is tricky that way.

Well, that's done and dusted. The man in charge of the world's most powerful military may not legally possess, receive or transfer a firearm.

When someone continues to go on about something despite you giving no indication of sharing their outrage, never say "how about I just give you my proxy, so you can care about it twice as hard for both of us?"

On account of it smarts, if their reaction the dozen or so times I've done it so far is anything to go by.

Alternatively, how about the Gulf of Texaco? Or for strong historical reasons, the Gulf of Shell?

Ooo, I know, the Gulf of Gulf!

If anyone were in charge of Canada right now, he or she should probably suggest that the U.S. be renamed to "The United States of Central North America"

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