... Is this app automatically going landscape every time you click into an image or video now to full screen it? Is there a way to turn this off? I don't typically want to go super zoom on stuff.
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... Is this app automatically going landscape every time you click into an image or video now to full screen it? Is there a way to turn this off? I don't typically want to go super zoom on stuff.
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
And the whole Internet went "damn okay, Grandma can get it!" That was a fun week.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Throw in some reasonable pay for a couple weeks work and the like and I bet you could drum up a good sized force to ensure that the Texans behave themselves while they're the guests of Illinois.
Sure but they like... Don't have to be. "We must defend Chicago from these Texans. All able-bodied loyal citizens with arms are requested to report for muster at for training on how to properly observe these Confederate scum to ensure they do not violate our laws" etc.
NY Times incoming: Will Trump's Assassination Of 11 People In A Boat Finally Net Him His Coveted Nobel Peace Prize?
Do the laws allowing federalization apply to anything under state control? Or just to particular formations? Like, if Pritzker raised a militia of 10,000 minutemen, would they be federalizable? Or would they be immune?
Not until the organized shooting starts. I'm not saying it won't get there or that a spark couldn't start a conflagration, but we're not quite there yet.
i think, for most of the framers, the president sending one state's militia into another state over the objection of the state's governor would be indicative of the collapse of the union itself
Turns out you can't bomb an idea. Who knew.
Judging by how desperately every single gate agent on every Southwest flight I've taken since they started charging for bags has been pleading with the passengers to gate check bags in advance so the plane isn't delayed by them having to pull bags, the bag charge is going just GREAT
We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.
We know this from history, from the 1930s in the US, the best way to fight fascism is massive investment in the public. Not means testing, not tax credits for people who open a business that employs X people, not tax cuts. Spending money on public infrastructure. Universal Healthcare & college, now
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
Gotta get a little inflammation to round out your corners or you end up looking all janky.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
No no - Obrador. And I would 100% vote for a "fuck the rules build me this railway immediately by any means necessary" candidate at least once, just to experience some speedy forward progress at least once in my lifetime. Especially if in the next election we can choose a Sheinbaum. 😍
It's definitely one of those things where you need to know the starting point to know if guidance is directionally correct. Rampant consumerism and wastefulness is good to combat, but accepting the scraps of the rich and never demanding your fair share is taking it too far.
Interesting - the main association for me is the book from some years ago (which I didn't read but heard discussed) which was designed to reduce entitlement and antisocial behavior, and to increase general contentment. I can definitely see how religion could exploit those ideas, though!
Why's that? Are the bad people making that into a gross thing or something?
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
reading this felt like discovering one of those tribes of people who have had no contact with the outside world
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
If we had actually enforced closures and masking for two months and stopped transmission of the FUCKING DEADLY VIRUS THAT KILLED MILLIONS that would have worked but we caved to angry science deniers so now it's September 2025 and people are still dying from a virus and they blame lockdowns instead.
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
No no - Obrador. And I would 100% vote for a "fuck the rules build me this railway immediately by any means necessary" candidate at least once, just to experience some speedy forward progress at least once in my lifetime. Especially if in the next election we can choose a Sheinbaum. 😍
And it's so easy to paper over with public excuses, too: "Oh that Patriot crew was just a little jumpy, we'll be sure to train them more carefully. Did your pilot eject okay? What a tragic accident." Gives them the clear public deescalation offramp while also sending them a very clear message.
Honestly the Ukrainians just demonstrated this excellently with literal trucks full of attack drones they assembled within Russia. Russia is incredibly weak to bribes to its population.
My hot take is we should go kinetic against Russian clandestine operations in Europe
Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us
The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch. Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend. Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all. youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak
an avatar of Republican faux moderation getting unseated by an avatar of left-wing rage would own so hard honestly
The succession plan of so many of the current old guard democrats is “YOLO, won’t be my problem, lol.”
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
I've said this before, but only one party caring about governance makes it, in turn, a magnet for public anger about governance
Whenever I see something like this I can't help but think of @postoctobrist.bsky.social 's contention that we need Climate Stalin.
It's so cool how the US basically has the resource curse if the resource was money
Fascinating, thanks!
Very nice! The lights must have been protected by the overhang.
Really curious: What would recreating it in a lab look like? Would we be printing the genome somehow and shoving it into a related virus? Do we have the whole smallpox genome recorded somewhere?
Greg all I'm hearing is that we need to win 2/3rds supermajorities next year. We better get to work!
Neat - did you tape off the light or just spray carefully?
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
This is a great read, and something I've been wondering about pretty much my entire career www.comicsbeat.com/the-story-th...
This is *really great* journalism Lots of evidence pointing to rot in the management of wildfire response diverting these teams away from duty and into the hands of the thugs. Now, of course, firefighters no longer trust mgmt to care about their safety.
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If it worked to end slavery in Britain, I'm sure it can work to drastically reduce the number of loose guns! Although I don't think the US should get rid of all guns - there are bears etc. after all.
every pic of trump looks like this now
"More like Dame Judi Drenched" I say as I ready the water balloon launcher
*Gasp*!! Nuance?! Here on Al Gore's Internet?! How very dare you, madam?!
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AM I DEAD
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you won’t stand up for trans people and their rights, you’re tellling me you won’t stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. You’re telling me you don’t stand for anything at all. Also, they’re *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
And France has just closed a regional railway line, in Creuse 😡 railwayworld.net/2025/08/31/f...
Okay but Amy have you considered: Strawberries.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
As many in US are in areas w/ a COVID-19 surge assoc' w/ an AIRBORNE infectious agent - "He said the public should consider reviving some forms of pandemic-era precautions, such as proper hand hygiene and avoiding unnecessary touching of the hands and eyes." #HaveaClue fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
Live in the Bay Area? We're going to a 17 mile long rally tomorrow, from Santa Clara to Redwood City. tinyurl.com/historic17x17k We will be showing up to show our support for the idea that California should be a dagger aimed at the heart of authoritarians, and in defense of our Republic.
Sure but IHI's XF5 powers the X-2, and the XF9 was headed for the F-X, although now the F-X is being combined with the Tempest to make the GCAP, we'll see which engines they end up using - could end up a joint project with RR. I'd guess the F3 doesn't quite count as "modern", which is fair.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
And Japan too!
The Kant Car
Brazil doesn't have their own yet afaik.
Japan and the UK, too. Turkey is nearly there, but not quite yet.
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You sound like a woman who's probably smoked tbh. Completely within normal range for women's voices ime.
Yeah short form video might be a real problem, but I think it's a problem for younger people even more? Hard to say.
9/11 was a massive boon to conservatives, rescuing Bush's floundering Presidency and leading to a midterm wipeout for Dems and Bush's reelection. They are actively rooting for more terrorist attacks.
I think we might be okay because we're not full of lead and we know not to trust random bullshit we read on the Internet. More than other cohorts, anyway.
look I hate sharing twitter bullshit but legitimately whoever made this should be [oh my god this is so fucking redacted guys you don't even understand how redacted these thoughts are lmao]
annual reminder
As my dog would be the first to remind you, all of this is just a distraction from the squirrel that is taking a shit on the front lawn
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
This is very very funny. The hallucination engines are even less capable of making money than we thought!
“Given the current rate at which tech companies are spending money without much return — a long-term bet that AI will all but make human labor obsolete — he estimates that revenue would have to increase ten-fold just to break even. Anything's possible, of course, but it doesn't seem like a hot bet”
I can think of no better test of a man's character than to game with him.
as I have mentioned around here before, I used to play video games with him, and he was a piece of shit (here's where I curse @xaiax.net for removing his perma-quote)
i also like Cracker Barrel more than I like any opinion columnist
see that salary is how you know they’re up to some extremely evil shit
The best response to that is probably banning Fox News and Sinclair and so on, who are the ones driving those baseless fears. Also banning car-dependent suburbs of course, which make people feel scared and alone and without community. You're right that words aren't enough.
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
Yeah, that. If the tax rates are set up sensibly, we can go ahead and help Rich Bob, bc it's not net regressive if Rich Bob's money is helping 20 people and one of them is Rich Bob.
I regret to inform you that like most things that are broken or bad in society, the answer is usually racism.
As someone who absolutely *can* afford to feed my children I'm still getting a massive benefit from it! I don't have to commit any executive function whatsoever to making sure they get lunch. No faffing about with packing lunches, no faffing about with sending money or paying bills. So nice.
We're working on it, okay? It's just going to take us another couple centuries.
Actually to be fair to New York the discovery of the dumpster by your city elders has made it a *massively* more pleasant place to exist.
To each their own lol. I don't really like NYC at all, for the same reasons I don't really like Paris. Paris is maybe getting its act together though?