Throw back to that time the Six Million Dollar Man pulled in a small dinghy with all the strength of a normal-priced person.

Nice soccer tournament you got there. Be a damn shame if someone interfered with officiating, thereby drawing attention back to how goddamn corrupt the governing body is.

The teeth must flow

#toothfairy #comic #funny

Referee Philosophy -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/662

"Deep Tunnel has never reached its limit. After weekend's heavy rains, it’s almost full. What that means."

Uh, damn?

The only reason I know anything about this is the Deep Tunnel system was part of the research I did for WWW.

But still. Damn.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2026/07/06/chicago-deep-tunnel-historic-flooding-tarp-reservoir-weather-climate-change

Until the 1900s, most national borders were the same as any other political borders, like the borders of towns, cities, or provinces: administrative boundaries that demarcate administrative authority. Militarized borders were rare and considered despotic, with Tzarist Russia as an example.

I am once again reminding you that militarized borders are a modern invention, like a century old. Before the 1900s, "immigration" was just people traveling a place.

Vera Drew’s ‘Trandemic’ Wins Transgender Film Center’s Inaugural Found Footage Fund Award
#News #MarkDuplass #TransgenderFilmCenter #VeraDrew

https://deadline.com/2026/07/vera-drew-trandemic-transgender-film-center-fund-award-2026-1236974988/

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to.

You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/trust-is-not-built-on-craft-alone

#LLM #AI #tech #UXDesign #UX #SoftwareDevelopment #USerresearch

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/116873204924016304

Oh, so they're doing like crime-crime.

“MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports: Sarah Posner

As #MAGA personalities start demanding a ban on women travelling to the US and having babies, a writer who covers Trumpism explains what this reveals about today’s right—and why we should take it seriously.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/212706/maga-wants-force-women-pee-cups-airports

“ #Trump shared a photo of Giorgia Meloni smiling in his direction at the #g7 summit in June, with the caption: “restraining order needed”.

His post threatens to reignite a diplomatic spat over Mr Trump’s claim that #Italy’s prime minister had begged him for a photo at the meeting.

The two populist-right leaders, once close allies, are scheduled to attend this week’s #nato summit in Turkey.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-giorgia-meloni-restraining-order_n_6a4b21e7e4b001e08fc6c15d

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116862867990753112

BTW

my “i cannot believe there’s people out there still defending Biden” quote tooting of myself was prompted by the work Mekka has had to do, answering asshats tryna gaslight us about Joe Biden.

y’all need to take all the seats instead of coming to Black people’s mentions with what amounts to a [citation needed] about racist and fascist pieces of shit like Joe Biden.

Again:
1. Trump's most popular policy among his supporters *by far* are his "immigration policies"

2. His immigration policies are by definition, ethnic cleansing policies. They were devised by white nationalists who self-described their sole purpose as "turning the USA into a white ethnostate."

3. White American voters are the only group of US voters that support these ethnic cleansing policies at more than 50%. Black, Asian, non-white Hispanic, and Indigenous people all reject these ethnic cleansing policies.

4. Trump supporters are willing to give up every other policy to make sure that this one happens, as they view it as existential. They are willing to pay to do this.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/50802-harris-vs-trump-on-the-issues-whose-policies-do-voters-prefer

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116867513522463909

“Meta data center contaminates city water supply with rare metal-resistant bacteria” is peak 2026 😬

I’ve come out to see them in the middle of the night but have never caught them without perfect eye makeup.

Maybe they’re born with it… or maybe it’s Maybelline.

#asstodon

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.

by @TheEconomist

How the new info op works.

The U.S. has admitted thousands of Afrikaner refugees while freezing admissions for nearly everyone else, based on a "white genocide" claim South Africans across racial lines reject. Mattie Webb on why this policy—and the broader U.S. pressure campaign it's part of—is costing Washington credibility: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/afrikaner-refugees-and-the-limits-of-u.s.-pressure-on-south-africa

New in PN: How Kalshi infects the news

"In December 2025, CNN and CNBC struck landmark deals with Kalshi, a leading prediction market. Since then, both networks have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn-cnbc