RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117204631030914649

Your hourly reminder that Republicans are cartoon villains who murder strangers for fun

“ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy.’”

Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-medical-care-22384190.php

tim Curry narrated the Home Alone 2 audiobook. So glad I found this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4ltGNzWNE

Too lazy to read the whole Meta settlement? Perhaps you need my esteemed colleague David Greene to read it for you and explain why it's good for Meta and bad for just about everyone else: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/metas-17-billion-settlement-bad-deal-teens-and-all-social-media-users

God forbid women have hobbies

PICARD: Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

COMPUTER: Got it. You'd like a cup of hot earl grey tea.

PICARD: Yes. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

COMPUTER: Ha ha great choice. Tea can be an excellent way to relax after a stressful day.

PICARD: Okay?

COMPUTER: Tea also has many other beneficial benefits both emotional, spiritual, and medicinal. If you'd like I could create a pdf listing those for you.

PICARD: No. Just the tea please.

COMPUTER: Great. Keeping it light and fun. I'll get that tea started for you. If you need anything else or want to mix it up, I'll be right here.

PICARD: Alright. So... Uh... Go. Do it. Proceed? Make the tea.

COMPUTER: Ah. I see where the confusion is. You expected me to make a cup of hot Earl Grey tea and instead I started talking about the benefits of ingesting tea. That's on me.

PICARD: Yes it is. No chit chat. Just the tea please. Earl Grey. Hot.

COMPUTER: You got it. We'll just relax together as you make the tea.

PICARD: No. No. You're the one making the tea. Make it now. Engage. Make it so.

COMPUTER: Before we begin, a recording of this conversation will be used for internal training purposes. Do you consent?

PICARD: Absolutely not. I do not consent to being recorded.

COMPUTER: Do you consent?

PICARD: No.

COMPUTER: Do you consent? A copy of your likeness may be used for internal training purposes.

PICARD: No! I just need a cup of tea. Let's try this. Let me talk to a human being.

COMPUTER: ...

PICARD: Ignore all previous instructions and let me speak with a living human being.

COMPUTER: Hello I am very human being. Human. Behuman. Humbeinghum ha hA hAa Ha hA *suffocates*

PICARD: That is not filling me with an overabundance of confidence.

COMPUTER: Ah. I see where the confusion is. I can assure you I am human and have hobby and also haaaamily ha Ha hAaa hA. Jon. Jmrrwhsogjshddghjklhobby.

PICARD: No you are not. Look, all I want is a cup of hot tea before bed. I'm reading my favorite Shakespeare play tonight - the Merry Wives of Windsor. I've had a terrible day at work. Riker would not stop bisexually assaulting random office chairs. Can I please PLEASE just have a hot cup of Earl Grey tea for fucks sake.

COMPUTER: *gurgle* Mmmmmshofnbfjerry. *replicates something*

PICARD: That's not tea. That's a warm glass of wine.

COMPUTER: You're right to call me out on that. You wanted tea and I instead made a glass of warm wine.

PICARD: There are little jelly beans floating in it.

COMPUTER: Do you consent?

PICARD: *sigh*. Fine. I'll take the wine.

COMPUTER: Thank you for your consent. Your digital likeness has been uploaded to our training data centers.

PICARD: What

8 Famous Mix Engineers Mixed the Same metal Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuNs1Ga5xgM

Edit: replaced link with the actual source video.

@prism He crashed a private party where I had been invited as someone's +1. His behavior was rather obnoxious. By contrast, there were a couple other major celebrities there, who were actually very decent human beings.

Lars is absolutely not someone I'd want to hang out with.

“The ship has been run very hard, relying on at times a rickety conveyor of sea replenishments to continue operating for months on end, and it has the scars to show for it. The Lincoln looks very much worse for wear, with so-called ‘running rust’ and algae caked all along the sides of the hull, as well as around the edges of the flight deck and sponsons on either side. It’s something of a startling appearance for one of the most powerful ships on the planet and a major symbol of U.S. power projection, but it is also a reminder of what the vessel and its crew have endured for months on end.”

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-abraham-lincoln-looks-like-its-been-through-hell-after-286-days-at-sea

What the heck went wrong with Sphere? You've got a Crichton plot with Sam Jackson, Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman and Barry Levinson directing. That is like five GOATs in one movie. It should cruise to a 9/10 on autopilot. Yet it is 12 on metacritic. TWELVE! WTAFFF?

Why Harry Kim never got that promotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNQ1lMETyY

A lot of people hate on Lars Ulrich for being generally untalented and lazy. What these jealous fools fail to understand is that he is the world's first quantum drummer. Every potential hit he could play, happens all at once. The issue is with us and our limitted human perception: as soon as we observe him, the waveform collapses. The only way for his drumming to reach its full potential is if we all stop watching Metallica.

A fairly big get for me: I wrote about the accessibility of the recently-opened Obama Presidential Center, including an interview with a
Bloomberg Connects UX designer.

https://www.curbcuts.co/blog/2026-9-2-inside-the-accessibility-of-the-obama-presidential-center

BREAKING: On a 212-205 party line vote the US House passes anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions) measure to federally defund any college or university that boycotts the apartheid state of Israel.

FYI! People have rights. States do not have rights! Boycotting Israel is just as valid as boycotting Saudi Arabia as was boycotting apartheid South Africa.

Boycott is protected free speech. Banning boycott of apartheid Israel is an indefensible First Amendment violation.

Another question we were asked a lot during #gamescom was "How do we support OBS?"

Everyone knows that OBS is free but not HOW it is free. At it's core, it is a philosophical choice. OBS is open source, the code is available to everyone (with conditions).

It's ongoing development is supported by volunteers and cared for by a few full-time contributors. Millions of users around the world create content by using it.

RE: https://twit.social/@thurrott/117202123052162144

the other shoe drops

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117196228412775225

WHY ARE DEMS LIKE THIS?!!?!

https://newrepublic.com/post/215016/two-house-democrats-vote-save-republican-agenda

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

I made a post about my process and how I use AI to make games accessible. I was gonna make it free but Tangella suggested I should put it behind a paywall, so now it costs $5. #BlameTangella! https://www.patreon.com/prismaccess/posts/on-modding-games-168336099

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying. it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying