If Bill Burr were legitimately interested in helping bring free speech to Riyadh, he would have done the gig and given a big chunk of the payout to a free speech org fighting Saudi oppression. Otherwise his spin is just political cover for a big payday from a bad choice.

The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.

Me: I just want to save my docs to my hard drive on my computer. Microsoft: Thank you for your suggestion! We’ve renamed our Ohio cloud servers to “my-computer-1.” Problem solved. windowscentral.com/microsoft/micr…

This is pretty nuts. Prospero.ai predicted today’s market crash yesterday morning based on collapsing net options sentiment. Glad I have their alerts on.

Funny how little time it took Siri to lose functionality. iOS 6 on the left and iOS 9 on the right. Question was “what movies are in theaters right now”.

I saw a comment on Reddit today that read: “I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.” Sadly, it sort of was. What people often miss is that there’s an inherent asymmetry to civilization, the same kind you see in economics, what some call the “rockets and feathers” effect:

Damn... Claude inside VsCode is kicking the ass of Cursor's auto model. Cursor got stuck on a parallel test-issue and could never get around it and was breaking other components trying to get around the objective. ...Claude fixed it in 3 prompts.

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end Citizens United by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

There are expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs. Data shows this over and over and over and over.

If I don’t change my oil for two weeks and nothing happens… can I just never change it again?

This broke my brain.

I like a good smart home device. I LOVE a locally hosted smart home device: dexerto.com/entertainment/…

This is... um... super illegal. "Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members" cnn.com/2025/10/24/pol…

Is this guy fuckin serious? He takes his wife out for a nice meal and pays $145 to a local restaurant instead of giving that money to his landlord? Unreal

Six years ago, Rachel Accurso was a stay-at-home mom with a baby on her hip and an iPhone camera, posting singsong videos to YouTube to help her son through a speech delay. Now, Ms. Rachel is a household name. She’s not just a streamer, she’s a cultural flashpoint—and a Glamour

Unabashedly in agreement!

Because citizens (or just Republicans) ev in blue states aren't worth his time. That's not a leader. That's a bully. msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/show…

Maybe the first question of a dementia screening should be asking if the patient knows its a basic dementia screening. people.com/donald-trump-m…

The medical ethics of plasma donation are about to get weeeeeeiiiiiirdddddddd. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…