the Internet and the Web are fine – Web 2.0 was where things started going wrong – the cancer that begat the parasites of Web 3.0, crypto coin, and LLMs feeding off the twitching remains

“hacked” or just used the FBI’s own backdoors?

c/womensstuff is punching up, you’re punching down

historical example: Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto – released in Japan in 1961 under “Ue o Muite Arukō” – released in US in 1963 under “Sukiyaki” because that was about the only Japanese word Americans knew …

another case of “lesser evil”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

Kurzgesagt: South Korea is Over

• s/Armed/Police claim were armed/
• s/Unarmed/Police admit were unarmed/

• examples from professional recipes – measurements are given as weights (in grams) – no worrying about how much brown sugar in a “packed cup” or if your cup of flour has been sifted enough or what exactly is meant by a “cup of spinach”
• examples from baking recipes – measurements are given as percentages – allows easy scaling up and down

helped Tennesseans not trust lenders …

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

The Latin American Los Angeles gang crisis is real.

• international: Russia (and their puppet, Trump)
• domestic: we have enough racist, fascist domestic terrorists (ex. Proud Boys, Patriot Front, etc., etc.) that pose far more of a threat to the US than MS-13

You get a Bhopal! And you get a Bhopal! Everyone gets a Bhopal!

environmental effects

Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty

“At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”

the kicker will be when new-from-China plus 100% tariff is still cheaper than American made …

as long as you’re not pregnant (edit: CW body horror)

Make Thalidomide Great Again