I’ll take shitstorm for $100, Alex.

Elections are still coming. “Inflation” hasn’t been tamed. We’re also waiting for the next pandemic. Planetary thermal events are in progress. Mega drought in the American Southwest threatens to cripple hydroelectric power generation and agriculture for millions.

Normal? That’s just what they want you to think.

^ This needs upvotes. TFF.

Sadly, it’s the taxpayers footing the bill for this settlement.

Don’t get me wrong, he has compensation coming, but how about from the salaries of those responsible? Or from their departmental budget for the next five years?

Quit allowing them to dodge responsibility.

Arkansas, where transparency goes to die. Apparently.

OMFG! This is a shot across the bow of every skeevy publisher that’s done everything they can to screw the creators of myriad fictional characters in a variety of arenas. You go Mr. Willingham and god bless!

Fun watch!

Judge Andrew Hanen, Republican, appointed by G.W. Bush, who received his law degree from Baylor, ruled as expected.

Nothing to see here, move on.

MSN was reposting a NY Post story. Would be unsurprising if, in about a decade or, there’re lawsuits alleging emotional distress, lost wages, trauma, etc., against various media outlets.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

AP was light on photos, MSN doesn’t share that reluctance: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-house-democratic-candidate-performed-sex-acts-with-husband-on-webcam-for-tips/ar-AA1gA7t7

Chaturbate is mentioned.

Back of a church.

Just one?

Republicans killing a program instituted by one of their own, that saved millions of lives, is a clear indication of the depths the party has sunk to.

Mmm…and for certain populations control isn’t the goal, extermination is seen as the next logical step.

The roster of Republicans who signed the letter:

The House committee’s letter was signed by Chairman Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), as well as Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Aaron Bean (R-Fla.) and Jake Ellzey (R-Texas).

FL & TX ffs.

Why does anyone waste a column inch on anything that witch says?

Where’s the link to say NO LICENSE FOR YOU!?

Guess who’s not getting paid.

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

That’s some bullshit.

“Davis (the victim of the assault) is struggling with accepting what kind of lenience the plea deal offers Kenoyer. Not only was he able to administratively resign from Cripple Creek PD, effectively allowing him to be hired on with another department in the future, but he also avoided prison time in a case originally charged as a class-3 felony punishable by up to 4-12 years in prison.”

July 20 has come’n’gone.

US Congress, or one party thereof?

Wait. Tucker? I thought he’d been deplatformed.

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

Sinema. What a joke.

Give it to me in raw numbers, how many Americans does that really mean?

Interesting concept. Would wanna try first.

As far as Apple incorporating this tech into their gear, all that’s needed is a licensing agreement; however, Apple’s notorious for wanting people to sign their licensing agreements, not so much for the reverse.

Has he ever taken a lawyer’s advice, let alone paid them?

Dunno why this would rate a down doot, it’s a little fluffy, but mildly informative.

“The Record should sue not only to deter future searches of its newsroom, but to protect journalists and news outlets around the country from future illegal raids.”

Not to mention a wrongful death that needs to be addressed.

Thank the party of trickle down for the bulk of that.

What, now?

Just.don’t.go.

Watch the fun.

With a side of hallucinations.

… try using a Macbook touchpad and then any other one after it.

^ This.

Have been given a current Surface Pro laptop for work and must use an external mouse, or rage in frustration that my 13 yo MBP has a better functioning trackpad.

Shiiiit. Bard, Chat GPT, etc., are the LLM AIs we’ve been allowed to see.

We have no clue what’s in the closet over there, let alone in the cage in the back room.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Somebody had to get the ball rolling; since on this side of the pond trolling the opposition, glad handing donors and energizing our base takes precedence over existential threats of any kind.

So, it’s an outsourcing problem?