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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains: Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet.
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Sometimes The Onion makes a joke that is just for me, and in this case, it is that the logo of Global Tetrahedron LLC is a dodecahedron. InfoWars, A Global Tetrahedron Company. ANDROALPHUS: A powerful demon and a marquis of the infernal empire; he shows himself in the shape of a peacock with a...
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Some wingnut I've never spoken to before (or again (foreshadowing!)) accused me of living in an "echo chamber" because I block people. Fuck the "echo chamber" discourse. I reject it entirely.I am not here to wear an ascetic's hair shirt because you think that surrounding myself with dickheads...
on Nov 9
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jwz: Elderly fascist golfer calls violent moron who attacked press 'beautiful' and 'on our side'
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At every one of Donny Convict's hate-rallies, during the part devoted to the Airing of Grievances, there's a lovely moment where Donny turns his attention to the press. he'll gesture towards the area where reporters are barricaded for their own protection, and he'll start yammering about the...
on Sep 2
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Have there been studies investigating whether repeated COVID infections lead to a reduced willingness to take basic precautions like wearing masks? Because it really feels like we've got a Cordyceps / Toxoplasmosis situation going on here.
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It's Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky. "Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder, Bluesky's DNA is basically [TESCREAL / Effective Altruist] people. It gets worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial...
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McSweeney's: Why can't we just agree to disagree? Demonizing Trump voters like me only leads to toxicity, and it's bad for your health to be so agitated. Let's find a way to unite so that this ugliness doesn't surface again when we head to the polls in four years. And if your worst-case scenario...
on Wed, 7PM
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jwz: Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
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Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
on Wed, 3AM
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Greatest Music Video Of All Time, The Wild Boys by Duran Duran. I had some more words to say about that six years ago when I posted jwz mixtape 2ØØ: The Greatest Music Videos Of All Time. However, since YouTube is, always has been, and will...
on Wed, 1AM
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jwz: Turns out the Twit Export was garbage
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I got to wondering: "In the intervening years, have any of the people I used to follow on Twitter come to their senses and migrated to a non-Nazi platform, where I might again follow them? I should check!" When you finally left the Nazi Bar and closed your Twitter account, you probably did the...
on Mon, 6AM
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I have now read like my 30th long-form think-piece following this pattern: "Now that the nation has conclusively embraced Fascism, here's what you can do to join The Resistance -- " Attend your local school board meetings. Sign this change dot org petition. Drink lots of water
on Sun, 9PM
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"Try not to stress out about the big picture", they said. "Focus on your community", they said. Great idea! Here are just two topics that kept me from sleeping last night: These asinine tariffs mean the price of all of our products are going to go up by 20% to 60%, from napkins to flour to...
on Sun, 12AM
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I absolutely want to see the movie for which this story is the mid-credits epilogue. Archaeologists Bewildered by Skeleton Made From Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart: During a recent reexamination of the bones, researchers noticed peculiarities. For instance, the...
on Sat, 9PM
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(I can't figure out where this is from. Please let it not be AI, please let it not be AI...)
on Sat, 9PM
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jwz: Are you following President Supervillain?
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Are you following President Supervillain?
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jwz: "Your personal information is very important to us.", part three
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Hello! Here is an extremely stupid update about some incredibly low-stakes bullshit that doesn't matter at all! Oh for the glory days when this was the kind of thing I got worked up about. Barely six weeks after the XScreenSaver for Android Privacy Policy fiasco, which led to a quite nice piece...
on Nov 9
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Got this yesterday from what seemed like an actual amazon dot com email address: "I am contacting you today because I see that your organization is qualified for a business account with Amazon; our buying solution that grows with your business." Strunk & White told us: "If you have received a...
on Nov 8
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In 1944, the OSS (precursor to CIA) published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. For years, I've had four pages from this hanging on our office wall. It's funny in a "This meeting could have been an email" way as it demonstrates that the way most businesses operate is literally self-sabotage and...
on Nov 8
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Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab. The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee -- which is just off I-95 in the south of the state -- on Wednesday night. The...
on Nov 7
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Upon waking from an unusually long hypersleep, Ripley discovers the long-term, society-wide neurological consequences of repeated infections from the fake-news SpaceSARS-CoV-2 pandemic that she slept through:
on Nov 7
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jwz: The Vatican's Anime Mascot Is Now an AI Porn Sensation
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Meet Luce: Last week, the Vatican unveiled Luce, a Japanese-style cartoon character that will serve as the Catholic Church's mascot for its upcoming jubilee year, as well as its Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican's chief organizer for the jubilee year who...
on Nov 7
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jwz: America's Mayor still out here living like he's in a Coen Brothers movie
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Rudy Giuliani's apartment was emptied weeks ago, victims say: Rudy Giuliani must appear in person in federal court on Thursday after two election workers who are to receive nearly all of his most valuable assets told a judge they believe the former Donald Trump attorney is hiding items from...
on Nov 5
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jwz: Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Grampa
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Elon Musk's Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather: Haldeman believed that apartheid South Africa was destined to lead "White Christian Civilization" in its fight against the "International Conspiracy" of Jewish bankers and the "hordes of Coloured people" they controlled. [...] Before that,...
on Nov 1
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Mars Express (2023): Fantastic French take on Ghost in the Shell. This has a great economy of story-telling that is rare these days, with so much of the world being implied or shown rather than spelled out for you. If this was a series, there would have been a whole episode about how these three...
on Oct 31
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jwz: "I can replace you lazy fucks with spicy autocomplete."
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"More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers," CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company's third quarter 2024 earnings call. If you work at Google and you don't interpret this brag on the earnings call (the earnings call) as a personal...
on Oct 30
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jwz: Mastodon stampede returns
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If you've noticed that the Mastodon stampede DDoS is back, hammering your servers even though you have applied countermeasures -- that's because they CHANGED THEIR FUCKING USER AGENT for no good reason and without telling anybody. 2024-07-31 23:39:18: http.rb/5.2.0...
on Oct 30
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jwz: Sterculius, God of Feces, Moscow edition
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A powerful geyser of sewage has erupted from an underground pipeline in Russia, blasting wastewater and debris more than 180 feet into the air. The clip shows a "fountain" surging for several minutes, spraying apparently contaminated water and debris over buildings, vehicles, and public spaces....
on Oct 29
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Pivot to AI: If you like music even a bit, you might boggle at the idea that people would be happy with a stream of anonymous machine-generated slop. But to the music streaming business, caring which song you're hearing makes you a weird outlier. The vast majority of streaming listeners want a...
on Oct 29
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jwz: Dictionnaire Infernal, 1818
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Amduscias, to whose voice the trees bow, and who commands twenty-nine legions:
on Oct 26
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I had a nap this afternoon and dreamed I had a zit on my temple, a monster cyst where you can feel a kidney bean moving around underneath, and then I caught a glance in a mirror and realized that my prodding had made some of it squirt out of my tear ducts so my face was spattered with pus, shot...
on Oct 26
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jwz: Tesla out here "disrupting" your groundwater with literal AI sludge.
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A stream of bright green chemicals leaked from Tesla's Palo Alto campus and flowed into a storm drain and creek, prompting a hazardous cleanup response. The fluorescent fluid was seen flowing along a road near Tesla's headquarters and dumping into a storm drain that connects to the Matadero...
on Oct 26
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Lily Allen Says She Earns More Money from Feet Pics on OnlyFans Than Spotify: Allen shared this information while responding to a Twitter user who called her out for posting feet pics. "imagine being [an] artist and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from...
on Oct 26
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Carbonic's on their "force majeure" shit again: Carbonic Service will declare force majeure due to feed gas supply issues affecting our CO2 supplier [...] We have no estimated end date, but we will continue to monitor the situation closely. [...] In the meantime, we have sourced CO2 from an...
on Oct 25
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jwz: Deeply-held religious infections.
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6 BART employees who refused COVID-19 vaccine to receive more than $1M each: In October 2021, BART's Board of Directors approved the mandate, stating that all employees must be vaccinated against the virus, though it allowed for some exceptions, including religious accommodations. In a...
on Oct 25
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Stevie Nicks is completely out of fucks: Where do you prefer that I sit? You're good right there, as long as you don't think you have Covid. No, I don't. Well, thank goodness we're done [touring] for a while, so I can go home and not have a mask on all the time. As a singer with asthma, I...
on Oct 25
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jwz: RealWater!™ Now with healthy, detoxifying Hydrazine!™
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Jury delivers $5B verdict in case against Las Vegas-based water company: A jury delivered another multibillion-dollar verdict Wednesday against the bottled water company Real Water, which was tied to an outbreak of liver failure in Southern Nevada. [...] In June, a separate trial ended with a...
on Oct 24
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jwz: Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters
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My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt. No not that crypto-grifter. These are different crypto-grifters: We're excited to announce that we've raised a $15 million...
on Oct 24
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Did not expect Lower Decks to lean in so hard to "Destroy Capitalism, Smash the State". I hope this is a sign of the writers adopting an attitude of, "We're already cancelled, I will walk backwards into Hell."
on Oct 24
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Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space: The Committee to Abolish Outer Space has existed for a long time -- possibly forever. The movements we founded over the centuries had different names and different leaders, but all of them were in some way part of our war against the stars. Only...
on Oct 24
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jwz: Hit a Y2038 bug and it's not even Daylight Savings Day
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function default_end_date() { - return (date ('Y') + 20) . date ('-m-d 00:00:00'); + return ('2038-01-18 19:14:07'); // LOL we're all gonna die + // mysqli_sql_exception: Incorrect datetime value: '2044-10-22 00:00:00' }
on Oct 23
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jwz: A murderbot stamping on a human face forever
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scott f: This dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good. Mike Sims: Yep. The future desired by robocar people is that in a concert hall of 40,000 people,...
on Oct 22
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jwz: Got my new lawn sign today. Back the Blue!
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Got my new lawn sign today. Back the Blue!
on Oct 20
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Republican AGs Argue States Have Compelling Interest In Getting Teen Girls Pregnant: To summarize, they're arguing that there's a study showing that 15-19 year-old girls are less likely to have babies when mifepristone is available online. Which might be true. It also might be true that teen...
on Oct 20
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Making a list of pros and cons of getting in a time machine and going back to 1992 to run a nightclub. Cons: Everyone smokes inside, all the time, everywhere. So disgusting. Pros: Literally everything about: The entertainment industry; The music industry; The economy; The feasibility of running...
on Oct 19
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jwz: Hillbilly Cinematic Universe
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On today's episode of "TV Yelling with Dr. Kingfish", The Hillbilly Cinematic Universe:
on Oct 18
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Today's phone-based video game: 1: Get election SMS spam. 2: Block caller. 3: Reply STOP. 4: Get "you have been unsubscribed" from a different phone number. 5: Goto 2, in an attempt to preemptively block their entire network. My score was around 200 before I gave up.
on Oct 18