How’s that $1M bribe working out for you Tim? https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/23/trump-us-iphone-production/

“it never occurred to him that mercilessly attacking the left and the center left might impact his car sales, even though they are his customer base. Donald Trump's followers don't even believe in climate change, much less want to drive electric vehicles. What kind of so-called entrepreneurial genius wouldn't have thought about that?” 🤣
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/21/doge-deflated-elon-musk-has-lost-his-political-power/

Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/ Oh, fuck off, TechBros, and take your Frankenstein monster made of grave-robbed body parts of other people's intellectual work with you. kthxbai

Oh dear, this aged fast(ly). Well, it was always going to be a historical record!

The new #openai device as announced by Sam Altman and Jony Ive #ai #device

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

KPI = Key Performance Indicators

I’m not convinced that the designer of a $10,000 gold watch (now obsolete), who gets driven around in the back of a Bentley, and who spends his spare time in coffee shops ‘inventing the future’ with the likes of Sam Altman, is capable of designing products for the rest of us.

The new US Secretary of Defense uses The Pentagon to host a Christian prayer service in which Trump is praised as a divinely appointed leader.

Someone is using The Handmaid’s Tale as a manual for building the new Gilead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/pete-hegseth-prayer-pentagon.html?smid=bs-share

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Paris Agreement target won’t protect polar ice sheets, scientists warn
Calls for a more ambitious climate goal are rising as Earth hits several tipping points.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/paris-agreement-target-wont-protect-polar-ice-sheets-scientists-warn/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@telemetrydeck Can TelemetryDeck receive CSP reports?

China steps in for the US... This is humiliating....
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/

I've signed this petition, " Apply for the UK to rejoin the EU fully - do not just 'reset' the relationship ".

Will the Government see it and go, "Oh, OK, we'll do that, then"?

No.

But it's all part of shifting the Overton Window. We need to gently but firmly keep pressure on to say "We made a mistake, let's just fix it".

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/726413

Wonder where it's going? /s

Note: All these are things which should be publicly funded, not privatized and run for-profit.

"i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks. daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs

college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.

everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services."

- @missmayn

#capitalism

Sometimes the stupid really does hurt.

"Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly asserting that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-deportations.html

More deranged by the day. https://www.comicsands.com/trump-investigations-springsteen-beyonce-bono?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”

In a landmark decision highlighting growing concerns over digital privacy, the Kenyan High Court has ordered Worldcoin to delete all data it collected in the country. Sam Altman harvesting biometric data without adequate safeguards - I'm shocked. https://itweb.africa/article/kenya-orders-worldcoin-to-delete-biometric-data/LPp6V7rBJ1e7DKQz