There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

L to R Olympic medalists Kaori Sakamoto Alysa Liu and Ami Nakai forming a heart with their arms and hands

Sharing some girl power joy cuz we need it

just so happy that all my media consumption, professional relationships, and friendships are overseen by three guys who look like they just came 8th place in a lex luthor lookalike contest

guys read this whole thread, I'm crying

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The fact that AI boosters always go to “but art is EXPENSIVE” is telling.

Most people started with crayons, lined school paper, cheap pencils, ballpoint pen, the back of junk mail and misprinted pages.

Art supplies can be outrageous but you can make art with literal trash

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

I don’t know if “in the pedophile billionaire files, but not considered cool enough to get into the sex parties despite clearly desperately wanting to” is that much better than just being in them tbh

Being able to manipulate people successfully often derives from a rock-solid understanding of human nature. So does a lot of good art. It would be awesome if talent was always married to virtue, but… *gestures vaguely at all the things*

who the hell called them "podcast hosts with whom I've developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship" and not

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earbuds.

(extraordinarily laudatory)

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Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.

ha this is wild. Manhattan congestion pricing actually reduced traffic more *outside* of the toll zone than inside it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Good morning, Toronto. This is snow fooling around.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No single request was malicious. Each packet was

@argumatronic.bsky.social yes, people describe this as DDoS towards everyone on the internet. Sounds about right to me

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/

This is Minneapolis:

You go to get takeout at one of the local immigrant owned restaurants. You lock and unlock the door for people going in and out because they are understaffed.

When you get home with your order, you find two desserts you didn’t order in the bag with the rest of your order.

Worth every second

Emilyk.art

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

As a subjugated person under a dictatorship facilitated by malevolent global empires the least I can ask is you respect my heritage in southwestern TV weather broadcasts

California Current state-level drought information for California: .

A little good news today. For the first time since December 2000, the entire state of California is no longer either entering or recovering from a drought! That's 25 years of drought conditions. www.drought.gov/states/calif...

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"