If you work in tech, go to your nearest Best Buy (google it, it’s a store for normal people) and buy a $500 windows laptop made by a legacy vendor. Not a Chromebook. Go through the 60m setup flow full of SaaS ads. Feel it lag when you press Start. Experience notification hell.

"Why did you stop using me?" you look down at the disposable vape laying on the ground next to your desk, which just spoke. "My internal clock shows you last puffed me 3 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes, 12 seconds ago. Why? Is my flavor displeasing to you? I have a pulse mode-"

Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it is being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built up his "political project" to seize power. 1/

Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at UCL, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, digital chemists with big ideas. Please RT! Deadline 24-Jun

6 months ago we had magnets and rare earths and weren't paying 55% taxes on imports from China. This guy is the world's shittiest deal maker in history

kache Each bit is stored by charge trapping 5 electrons in a 3d structure . The structure is 332 levels high, a skyscraper in chip terms, the lithography machine precisely stacks atoms on top of each other. The masks are smaller than the wavelength of light, so they reverse engineer

Cuomo teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down a safe nuclear power plant, resulting in brownouts on the day of his mayoral election is a story that is too on the nose to feel real, and yet it is

Gmail is close to 700mb on iOS... does anyone even notice or care?

In the early 1950s, NACA conducted research into the levels of atmospheric turbulence that were found at high altitude. The decay as altitude increased was promising, offering both comfort for the occupants and increased fatigue life for the aircraft. For military use.. 1/16

"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a

A hidden fire‑safety rule is quietly adding $1+ million to the price of many new apartment buildings. Crazy part?  The gear it mandates has been used exactly once in a real US fire. Let’s unpack this 👇

There is a non-recursive formula for the Fibonacci numbers, expressing them in terms of the golden ratio and its powers. Why should you be interested? Because it teaches an extremely valuable lesson about power series. Read on to find out what:

This dipshit kid was instrumental in causing millions of deaths and the tech world is hysterical that a profile of him was mildly critical. Check the quote tweets, filled with gigantic crybabies, just the softest people you can imagine. I thought you guys were iN tHe aReNa???

I think one reason some tech people are unwilling to grapple with DOGE’s failure is that it would require acknowledging that their entire belief system about government — and in some ways broader worldview — was wrong.

The response to the Farritor piece is funny to me because a lot of SF tech types seem to want engineers to be able to take over the budgetary functions of congress, but for all criticism to still be directed at the now-powerless congressional reps instead of the engineers

Conservatives, gather around. I know they're not this stupid. You know they're not this stupid. So, I ask. Why is your political party posting communist shitboxes and claiming them as American? And saying we should aspire to drive communist shitboxes? Really, give me an answer.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll talk about engagement farming: a cynical social media tactic to rack up likes, shares, and comments. From rage farming to AI-powered outrage factories, engagement farming is reshaping online discourse and turning division into profit. 1/23

*saves file on computer* OneDrive: got it me: where? OneDrive: what

Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt. After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading." The reason the expert says this is

The fact none of these people were fired and blacklisted from working in relevant fields ever again is beyond my comprehension