Lamy stores in the States are closing this week. If you happen to live in New York or San Francisco this is your last chance to try pens and get a 25% discount in most pens and inks. #FountainPens

Fully agree: switched to #Vivaldi after losing faith in #Firefox management and zero regrets. Only a better experience. https://www.makeuseof.com/why-switch-to-vivaldi-browser/

stealing this so we can share it here!

Opening a 2023 Meng Ding (Sichuan) Mao Feng from Rivers and Lakes. Clean, a bit herbal, sweet aftertaste.

#GreenTea #LüCha #RiversAndLakesTea #NoKings @tea

Squash blossoms from the garden...stuffed with ricotta. Lettuce from the garden too. Summer begins.

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

#Pride ⚔️

@mookie Here's to loving and supportive fathers. Haha.

@mookie until he pulls out again after a poor qualifying.

#BBC Gaza civil defence says many killed while waiting for aid in Rafah https://w.st/tv4Q

The Fediverse HOA driving people away instead of welcoming them in.

https://thecanadian.social/@mike/114611031541544741

#fediverse #mastodon #hoa

New delivery of #StudioUnderd0g #Guacamole watch along with a Pink Lemonade.

#Bluesky's decision to use #Google Forms to collect personally identifiable credentials and other personal information from users who wish to be "verified" can easily call into question Bluesky's entire security and privacy regime, which in this case at least appears to be utterly amateurish and uninformed.

#BBC Are white South Africans facing a genocide as Donald Trump claims? https://w.st/ARFE

All this talk about AI infecting the planet like cordyceps and the potential extermination ('scuse, enslavement) of the working class by the hands of the ruling class makes me think maybe it's time for a Butlerian Jihad.

The day before Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was fired, the Copyright Office quickly and quietly dropped a major report on AI and fair use. I break down the timing, the fallout, and my 5 biggest takeaways—up now on Copyright Lately

https://copyrightlately.com/copyright-office-ai-report/

#copyright #ai

Musk Watch - For FY2026, just $5.02 billion in savings produced by DOGE can be verified. https://open.substack.com/pub/elonmuskwatch/p/data-reveals-musk-has-delivered-025

An update from Memphis:

* Elon Musk’s xAI is building a second supercomputer

* That supercomputer is going to use a jaw-dropping amount of power that triggers federal oversight

* The agency in charge of that oversight is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, of which Elon Musk is an unelected part

* Local leaders and press aren't doing nearly enough to address the concerns of pollution and energy use

https://512pixels.net/2025/05/new-xai-40-percent-doge/

Today I learned there is a vaccine for the cancer that killed my mom in development. In a stage 1 trial, it cured the cancer for people with Stage III and IV cancer. That made me tear up for what might have been.

Then I learned that legislators in some states are trying to ban RNA vaccines (which this possible cure is) and I really cried.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08507-5

When I keep rewinding the podium ceremony for Miami #F1 just so I can hear the boos for #MBS from the crowd...

Update. Usha Lee McFarling has put together a very useful timeline of #Trump's major actions on science and health in his first 100 days.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/trump-100-days-timeline-science-health-nih-cdc-fda-hhs/

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics