Lmst

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In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

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Grand Prismatic hot spring, Yellowstone. #yellowstonenationalpark #yellowstone #nationalpark #rainbow #hotspring #nature #landscape #roadtrip #naturephotography #landscapephotography #photography #pixelfed

A large blue hot spring with a boardwalk, rainbow-colored edges and trees framing the bottom.

Canadian Navy are called to detonate a missle found offshore in Bell Island. #navy #Fishing #newfoundlandandlabrador#explosion

A local crab fisherman reels in a missile off the coast of Newfoundland and decides to bring it home. #navy #Fishing #newfoundlandandlabrador

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#SilentSunday

#iceberg #icebergAlley #Twillingate #ocean #coast #NewfoundlandAndLabrador #canada #atlantic #landscapePhotography #photography #fotografie #fotografia #photo #foto

A rugged angular coastal landscape with six people viewing a blocky iceberg grounded near shore. Thin wispy clouds crisscross a blue sky above an ocean with similar shades of blue. A large iceberg in the mid ground holds the attention of the onshore onlookers, with several small icebergs in view in the distance. The large iceberg itself has an arch near the bottom and darker horizontal striatuins near the top , with shades of lighter greenish blue. [Twillingate (NL, Canada) May 2025]

https://theonion.com/tariff-strained-apple-announces-7083-piece-iphone-kit/

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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling
addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results
appear first."
The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple
times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

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Dick Enberg’s voice sounds like my youth. Baseball, football, basketball, tennis, you name it. Whenever this sweet bastard was on the call you knew you were in for a treat.

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He’s right you know.

A screenshot of a tweet by James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki
) criticizing Trump's view on trade. The tweet reads: "It’s impossible to overstate how stupid Trump’s view of trade is. He literally thinks that if you, American consumer, buy a TV that’s made in China, you’ve 'lost money,' even though you got a TV in exchange for your dollars (at a very fair price)." Below this, a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar
) quotes Trump saying, "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It’s very simple." The image also includes a still from "Meet the Press" showing Trump sitting with a woman in a purple suit, with U.S. and presidential flags in the background. The video timestamp is 0:38, and the caption reads, "don’t need to have 35 dolls, you."

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Issues & Answers: Premier-designate John Hogan discusses his victory at the Liberal leadership convention, while Liberal MP-elect Anthony Germain and Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe discuss the closest race in the country in Terra Nova-The Peninsulas https://ntv.ca/issues-and-answers/

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@georgetakei we just call him PeePee.

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#Canada gets it.

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Microsoft Authenticator needs me to validate with Authenticator in order to log in with Authenticator to use it to authenticate another app with Authenticator.

Here is the app telling me to open itself to validate itself with itself.

#infosec #iHateComputers

A screenshot of me trying to log in with authenticator and authenticator telling me to open itself in order to authenticate itself. I fucking hate computers.

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Microsoft, I don’t know how to express just how close to actual hell that sounds like to me.

Screenshot of an email notification, sent from Microsoft, with the subject “Get endless recommendations from Microsoft 365 Copilot”

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#memes #humour

@AndrewChamings
me: do you think chewbacca has pecs or a
trail of tiny teats like a piglet?

uber driver: why did you sit in the front

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Excellent time to start.

#humour #memes

Pride flag hung in store window. In front of it is a sign which reads "we now sharpen knives."

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On the surface, in govt and business, #Japan is an extremely polite country. To the point that people from other countries have difficulty parsing disapproval and rejection since the verbiage is subtle

With that in mind, listen to #ShinjiOguma of the House of Reps talking about #Trump and his galaxy brain #tariff bs

😂😂😂

"a delinquent kid extorting someone"

Shinji even name drops #RoyCohn 😲

longer video (original #Japanese with subtitles) for the full acid take down:

https://youtu.be/EIao2kkB7Gg