Has anyone mentioned the possibility that the whole point of the parade is to move military equipment into DC for future use?

Turns out that when you rub the lamp what comes out is 1% genie and 99% greenhouse gases

Pro Tip: If someone asks you, "do you know what [thing] is?" and you respond "I'd have to get back to you", then what you meant to say was "No."

Hope this helps

And yeah, I'm watching administration members being questioned on Capitol Hill, why do you ask?

Can we just clear this up once and for all?

Atheist: One who doesn't believe in God
Aaaaaaayyyyyytheist: One who believes Fonzie is God

South Korea’s newly elected president was once an underage worker in a factory, where he sustained a permanent injury to his left wrist, then became a human rights lawyer before entering politics. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN202506020

The key thing that LLMs and social media users have in common is that neither is capable of saying "I don't know".

I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that such a large proportion of talking heads videos are now planting a hardcoded text transcript very nearly dead center of their videos -- presumably to prevent them being cropped out -- or that they never check the autotranscription for accuracy. Absolutely painful to watch.

A lot of people have recognized that you can remove the AI summary from google search results by appending "-ai" to the query.

What's less well known is that you can get it to exclude the AI summary but still "roll coal" by appending
"-ai+burpashitloadofhotco2anyway"

I don't know how much he cares given that his new grift is that, having bought the Presidency for Trump, the Executive Branch simply shovels the US Treasury directly into his pockets.

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Tesla sales are down 53 percent across all of Europe for April (year over year). 47 percent more to go. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/27/busines...

Yesterday I discovered that not only do distinguish between people, but also between .

There's a neighborhood cat whose presence is always announced by the outraged crows yelling and swooping at him. But they pay no attention to our cat, even if he's walking right by them. i can only assume that the other cat has menaced them or their nests in some way, and Stanley never does that.

Anyway, yesterday three crows were standing quietly on our driveway apron looking at Stanley, as he sat looking back at them and meowing chattily from no more than 10 feet away.

To Stanley, a is a person if he's ever seen us talking to it. I've spoken to scrub , and crows in his presence, and since then I've seen him talk to them as well.

Just encountered three adolescent coyotes prowling the street outside in the middle of the day. Not even trying to be stealthy.

I honestly think the limitless popularity of zombie movies and series nowadays is down to people's frustration with the rest of society as a whole. They just like fantasizing that none of these endlessly bothersome others all around you are real people, just mindless monsters whom you're not only entitled to kill, you're obliged to.

A thing that kind of unifies half of the current news cycle is that back in 2016 Trump's campaign used to play "Born In The USA" at stops until Springsteen called him a moron on Norwegian television and openly endorsed Hillary.

OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!

“CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”

The S in CoPilot stands for Security!

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@kimlockhartga

We got a new home heating system installed this spring - a massive investment. During the initial pre-sales conversations I made it 100% clear that any system that required an internet connection was not acceptable in any way.

When the work was done the installation tech informed us that for the system to function it needed to be connected to the internet. I let him know this wasn't what we were told up front, and that we were unwilling to compromise.

"I'm sorry sir, I know this system inside and out, and it doesn't work without a connection. I don't know what you were told, but this is what we need to do next."

"In that case I would like you to leave my house while I call your company and my lawyer."

A few hours and three escalations later, the system is working just fine without any internet connection.

FFS, it shouldn't be this hard. The stove, the fridge, the fucking thermostats. No. Absolutely fucking not.

Full Moon on Monday

Take that, Duran Duran

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