What a beautiful essay from Ismaël Koné https://www.theplayerstribune.com/ismael-kone-soccer-canada-world-cup
"Everyone is welcome — just grab a jersey."
(With spoilers for the Canada v Iran group match)
Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.
There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.
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If you’ve never had your car stolen in France, you don’t know voiture missing.
@moriel due to a small mix-up at the IVF clinic, inside you are two wolves
Because of the existence of pregnant people, the average number of skeletons in a human body is more than one.
Sorry for all the spam everyone. Not sure who's doing this exactly, but I have ideas. They have been flooding Mastodon with daily bursts of messages from throwaway accounts mentioning my handle and trying to associate me with stupid and bad stuff. Thanks, @jerry
Interesting insight from social scientist Stephanie Coontz (paraphrased in a review of her new book): A stereotypical and often toxic version of masculinity assumes that men and women must be opposites, but "manhood was once counterposed more against childhood than womanhood. Maturity was what turned a boy into a man - the development of self-control and judgment, not aggressiveness."
GOP: We have to teach our children the Bible!
Bible: And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
GOP: No not like that.
The AI tokenmaxxing party is crashing over spiraling costs — leaked consulting firm audio suggests no one…
A recording from a meeting at consulting firm Accenture has raised concerns over how much companies are spending on AI. As companies bullish on AI rush to take advantage of the technology, solutions to out of control to…
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D.C. Police Agree To Compensate District Resident Handcuffed for Playing Star Wars “Imperial March” Theme Near National Guard Troops
https://www.popville.com/2026/06/dc-police-compensate-district-resident-handcuffed-playing-star-wars-imperial-march/
#news #music #resist #protest #ImperialMarch #StarWars #DC #WashingtonDC #NationalGuard
Your body is 60% water and 40% unresolved administrative tasks. Stay hydrated. Address the paperwork. #gooderliving
Microsoft has quietly extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 12, 2027.
Hasbro is asking child actors on the Peppa Pig animated series to sign over their voices to AI under new contract terms. https://deadline.com/2026/06/peppa-pig-hasbro-child-actors-ai-backlash-1236967142/
PHENOM
Anthropic: We scraped the entire internet, art, books, music and called it fair use. We argued that that’s how humans learn and we won’t pay anyone anything.
Alibaba: Cool, same.
Anthropic: Wait, no, not like that.
A newly discovered macOS malware dubbed "Gaslight" is designed to confuse AI-assisted malware analysis tools by hiding prompt injection strings and fake debugging data within the executable.
Welcome to 2026. Your average morning headlines:
- That TV show you love is cancelled
- That celebrity you like is, unfortunately, a transphobe
- Record storm and/or heatwave somewhere in the world
- Computers are worse & more costly than even one day before
- Cat photos tho
(Borrowed from @kidko92 ) needs more whiny Luke
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NY Times: Tesla Driver Using Autopilot Crashes Into Home, Killing a Woman, Officials Say
The driver told investigators he was using the vehicle’s automated-driver system when the vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a house in Harris County, Texas.