How is this whole "Prediction Market" crypto-crap scheme not just a russian backed money laundering front org at this point? Do you have to make it so obvious?

That's no Krasnoyarsk Krai!

In Germany einkaufschips evolved to a form of self expression eclipsing it's mundane purpose beyond any reasonable expectations. promex.de/shop/Einkaufsw…

Today is a good reminder of how Elon Musk absolutely destroyed Twitter’s utility as an information tool.

The irony: The 2021 Xbox Series X Mini Fridge couldn't even fit an ice tray.

For as long as I've been online since the mid/late 90s, "Don't let users freely share CSAM" has always felt like the absolute minimum social contract a website has with its user, not to even go into the legal concerns. Twitter can't even do that anymore

Pre-Musk, Twitter was necessary for news, even if you hated everything else about it. Now it's useless for news.

18 new languages for Equal Earth world map:

📽️📺 Named for a classic Star Trek torture device, The Agony Booth was a cult site for brutally honest movie & TV reviews. Running from the early 2000s until 2022, it chronicled pop culture pain for a generation. Revisit web history with the @WaybackMachine ⤵️

The "physical media" retro-trend will ultimately end in collectors item Stroopwafels. Ritter Sport is onto something here. Literal "Stollwerck talking chocolate” record were already a thing a century ago. blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/great-taste-in…

⚠️ Tenobrus To "kick the bucket" is also ancient. Let's consult "A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue" from 1785: archive.org/details/grosev… Bonus points for giving Trump a reason to use the phrase: "the buck stops here"

I bet they started doing this when former graduates started asking for replacement pestles.

xkcd.com/605/

LOL, sag ja das war alles harte Arbeit: dwdl.de/nachrichten/10…

Lamorisse-Iran-Connection:

INALEGWU Is the content pool loop now already down to 4 days? The ferrite bead repost was scheduled in 5 months not 5 days.

meanwhile they rejected this. You shall never be forgiven

Peak Nominative Determinism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominativ…

My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-justi…