Desiccated Cephalopod

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Basic white boy, add avocado for just $2

Aspire to be as popular as that damn bear in the woods

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So let’s fucking go already. Call their bluff.

Biden says Supreme Court immunity ruling means presidents can 'ignore the law' - as Trump celebrates 'big win'news.sky.com The court's decision passed with the help of the three conservative judges Donald Trump appointed when he was president - and it could prove pivotal to his future.

Because all of Boeing’s issue are due to not controlling enough of the market and production process. I’m sure the hatchet job Boeing does to their operations will have zero effect on quality and safety

@Reuters: Boeing said it will buy its supplier Spirit Aerosystems for $4.7 billion. The US planemaker moved after a crisis caused by a mid-air blowout on a 737 MAX jet led to questions over quality https://t.co/v76PQFcCPi https://t.co/dLwx2IbKmX

You know how lots of ATMs let you pull out $5s or $10s in addition to $20s? In the neighborhood I’m grabbing lunch in, my bank’s atm offers $20s or $100s just in case I wanted another reminder of the primary demo here

Got myself a nugget ice maker so at least the drinks are cool in this dumpster fire

Sure, let’s criminalize homelessness because there’s no way that will expand further to criminalize poverty at large… apple.news/AjcY-UNhGTZ6...

U.S. Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public placesapple.news The decision is a win for Western cities that wanted more powers to manage record homelessness. But advocates for the unhoused say the decision will do nothing to solve the larger problem

What the actual fuck? Another reminder of what is on the line this year. Electing Biden will *not* fix this, but it is our only hope to slow the acceleration into fascism. apple.news/AjcY-UNhGTZ6...

Every AI company says “AI could be dangerous, but *we* are building ours ethically” and their origin is always internet crime

Perplexity's CEO explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping Twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals. www.404media.co/perplexitys-...

Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accountswww.404media.co CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.

This just in - Sam Altman saw Oppenheimer but learned nothing

@NBCNightlyNews: Sam Altman has compared the work he is leading at OpenAI to The Manhattan Project’s creation of the atomic bomb — saying the work to develop Artificial General Intelligence will have historic impact. @LesterHoltNBC talks to Altman at the Aspen Ideas Festival. https://t.co/znk2WTSU

At the pool and it’s kinda raining and everyone is running under the patio cover - like, what, are you afraid to get wet?

@scarleteen.bsky.social can you recommend some good resources for talking with teenagers about lgbtqia+ rights and support? I have a 14yo boy who is coming home with debunked Q-ish stories and I’m getting exhausted trying to keep up. “No there aren’t litter boxes in schools for fucks sake”

Made my brownies in a donut pan to ruin the corner vs middle debate. Nobody gets what they want. Except me, of course, because I’m eating brownies.

Going to take a break from the word site to go scroll the picture site. I might even scroll the video site later.

My jaw’s so tight you can bounce a quarter off my teeth

*jaw drops. tampon falls out*

Boeing hitmen are going to start filing for disability due to repetitive stress injuries “another one? Oh fuck 😰”

Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward over safety concerns

Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward over safety concernswww.theguardian.com Roy Irvin alleges he was reprimanded as ‘insubordinate’ for flagging issues on 787 Dreamliner planes

Absolutely ludicrous. Do not want.

So Windows Recall takes screenshots every few seconds, OCR's them, and then stores all that in plaintext in a SQLlite database. It's impossible to understate how much of a security issue this is. Easily compromised spyware installed by your OS!

Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster”www.theverge.com Windows 11’s new Recall feature faces privacy and security concerns.

As we read about the guilty verdict today and the GOP responses, another reminder of what’s at stake. They are coming for immigrants (legal or no), birth control, and divorce next. apple.news/ADBPlGht8QjW...

How the GOP Learned to Hate Divorce, Againapple.news From dudes on podcasts to party platforms: This year no-fault divorce came roaring back into the mainstream of Republican politics.

Love chilling at the pool as the NWS emergency broadcast system interrupts the radio for a tornado warning. 😅‼️🌪️ (Outside of our area but still the vibes are 🌩️)

Kicking off the holiday weekend by honoring the Greek god of summer, Popsicles 🍡🍦🍭

I’m shocked I tell you! Ok, not that shocked… electrek.co/2024/05/20/e...

Elon Musk confirms his threat: give me 25% of Tesla or you don't get AI and roboticselectrek.co Elon Musk appears to confirmed and even clarify what can be seen as a threat to Tesla shareholders: give me...

That’s why none of the other self driving programs worked - they weren’t piloting 100,000lbs of freewheeling steel and rubber

Aurora and Volvo unveil self-driving truck designed for a driverless future

Aurora and Volvo unveil self-driving truck designed for a driverless futuretcrn.ch A new self-driving truck — manufactured by Volvo and loaded with autonomous vehicle tech developed by Aurora Innovation — could be on public highways as early as this summer. The Volvo VNL Autonomous truck, which was revealed Monday evening at the ACT…

Watching Maggie Mae Fish say anyone can be a hero, unless your name is Brian is a great corollary to my own rule, “there are no good Kevins”. If you’re a Kevin or a Brian, it’s not your fault, but it’s not false

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this picture is from Tesla's Fremont, CA factory, so The Onion is gonna have to try a little harder if it wants to be satire and not just you know reporting the facts

Elon Musk’s Neighbors Fed Up With Eyesore Yard Covered In Broken-Down Cybertruckswww.theonion.com BOCA CHICA, TX—Accusing the billionaire tech mogul of dragging down property values, neighbors of Elon Musk told reporters Thursday they were fed up with his eyesore yard covered in broken-down Cybert...

Dude, I think your potatoes are going bad…

Kartoffelsack nach 2 Wochen

If the reason for [bad thing in America] isn’t Ronald Reagan, then it’s almost always private equity vampires

Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

Guy sitting in the next cubicle, sadly talking to himself: “oh no, if I give up dairy I’ll have to give up cookies… because cookies have dairy in them?” 🍪🥛

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Orca 2024!

A peek inside the big brain workings of our “favorite super-genius”

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (a woman disagreed with him) finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-...

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger stafffinance.yahoo.com Insiders tell the story of the firings that have upended a network widely viewed as a signature Tesla achievement and a key driver of its EV sales.

“Hey ladies, congrats on graduating but also your life won’t really start until you abandon your career for your husband’s kitchen”

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s inspirational message to graduating Catholics: Be worse defector.com/chiefs-kicke...

Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker's Inspirational Message To Graduating Catholics: Be Worse | Defectordefector.com A fatal problem for any bad commencement speech is when the speaker is more concerned with talking about themselves, rather than imparting useful advice, and Butker's suffered from the same issue. If ...

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“The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war.”

I wrote about the protests. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...