Just paid off the last of my credit card debt. I’ve been so stressed about it for so long I don’t think my nervous system has caught up to reality yet 😅 still feels like I have all these pointless bills that are going to wipe me out every couple weeks.
Stellantis Introduces Pop-Up Ads in Vehicles, Sparking Outrage Among Owners
Here’s some stupid news that isn’t related to politics: pop up ads are coming to a vehicle near you! (It’s a Jeep thing)
Spider update
I haven’t posted a whole heck of a lot about my pinktoe tarantula since I got it.
I’ve been working six days a week for what feels like an eternity, but I finally got a couple days off and I was able to hang out with the little guy for a bit.
I mist the enclosure with a spray bottle every couple of days and he cant resist drinking water off of the screen. He comes running every time he hears me.
edit: video quality is kinda janky, here’s a better upload on bsky
Generic post about wanderlust
I regret that I haven’t traveled much so far. I’ve never been outside the United States. Hell, I’ve never even been to a blue state before. That didn’t even dawn on me until I started thinking about it just now.
There is so much awesome culture around the world but for most Americans, we act like this is the only place you ever need to be. Rootin' tootin', cowboy hat wearin', gun shootin', in god we trust ‘Merica. It’s the only place in the world that blue eyed, blonde haired, white baby Jesus really cares about.
I want to go to Europe, and China, and South America. Even just Canada would be a nice little trip. It’s like the USA if the USA didn’t have a parasitic brain worm.
I hope I can get my shit together enough to see more of the world before I get too old.
Faith in karma
I’m not religious, but I have to believe some kind of karma exists out there. Even if it’s just the consequences of a few billionaires' shitty actions.
Even the most gullible, brainwashed conservatives will eventually have to realize how bad they’re being fucked by their daddy in chief. You can only suck up to a bully so much before you realize it’s not benefiting you in any way anymore.
Or maybe they’re all just masochists, I don’t know.
Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI
Idk man, the more ‘merica tries to ban stuff from China the more I want to use it. Currently learning Mandarin and surfing Xaiohongshu daily 🤷
Russia is building an electronic registry of LGBTQ+ citizens
…the Orwellian plan has been in discussion since last year after Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization” at the urging of President Vladimir Putin.
In the US, state department employees are already being ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by the end of the day.
At this rate I don’t think we’re too far off from what Russia is doing here.
I used to like reading the news...
I’m a huge fan of RSS. It gives you complete control over how you get the news. It’s a perpetually updated stream of information hand-curated by you. It’s a neat little hobby coming up with the ultimate personalized news feed. No two are alike.
Lately, it’s been pretty depressing opening up my reader. Of course there are always indie blogs and other websites that post about non-political stuff or niche topics. But if you want any news at all, you’re stuck scrolling through miles of articles about all the things Donald Trump is destroying across the country on a daily basis. He just does so much so fast, it’s hard to look away.
I miss when the news was boring.
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
Every few days I see something that makes me think we are living in the dumbest possible timeline.
Ohio AG Dave Yost to Costco: Drop your diversity programs or else
Such blatant racism and homophobia. Shit like this is going on across the entire country. We are a fucking joke on the world stage.
Ohio Republicans want to make major changes to marijuana law approved by voters
Conservatives are full of great ideas lol I have no problem going back to Michigan for cheaper, higher quality weed 🤷
I don’t even know what to say lol
Denmark to pump $2bn into Arctic security as Trump eyes Greenland
Copenhagen announced on Monday that it will pump an additional 14.6 billion Danish crowns ($2.05bn) into security. The announcement came as the European country resists demands from United States President Donald Trump to hand over control of Greenland.
I sure hope there would be mass protests from our military if they were ever ordered to do something as fucking stupid as invading an ally.
What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?
New AI from China is cheaper and more efficient than ChatGPT and actually open source.
The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
It’s hard to stick up for American companies like OpenAI when they burn through tens of billions in funding, aren’t actually open source and then completely changed their business model from non-profit to for-profit.
Every year or two I always get this urge to subscribe to our local newspaper. They do this promotion where you get six months for $0.99 and even that feels too expensive for how bad it is since Gannett took over.
The great (American?) firewall
I love that people are migrating from TikTok to Red Note in droves. Our oligarchy is banning TikTok under the guise of national security; never mind the fact that any American reading this post is likely doing so on a device manufactured in China.
Never mind the fact that SHEIN and Temu are both Chinese apps that collect the same data as TikTok but no one cares because there’s no actual threat. Nothing beyond what Facebook or X does with our data anyway.
They’re banning TikTok because it’s the biggest social media app that the US government has no control over. So people are directly, knowingly and willingly handing their data over to an app that actually is controlled by the Chinese government in protest.
What a time to be alive 🤭
Elon Musk is being sued by the feds over the way he bought Twitter - The Verge
It’s hilarious that this is even a news story. Like as if it will have any repercussions whatsoever for Elon. It’s no different than how Jack Smith decided Trump is absolutely 100% responsible for the Jan 6th insurrection and if he was anyone else he’d be serving hard time, but in reality he doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Instead he gets to run the free world into the ground.
It’s just a thing that happened followed by a bunch of meaningless media coverage that translates to static.
It makes for good filler in between multimillion dollar advertisements, but it’s no different than watching an episode of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones on digital cable.
They could fine Elon Musk $100 billion and it would have absolutely no noticeable effect on his life or his power as an oligarch.
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
The verb rawdog is defined as “to undertake without usual protection, preparation, or comfort.” While the word originated as a vulgar slang term referring to having sex without a condom, rawdogging ended up crossing over into mainstream usage for a wide variety of activities, like the travel trend in which a passenger sits through a flight without any distractions.
Hmmmmm 🤨
Crazy to think the golden age of streaming has already came and went before we even knew it. Now it’s all corporate mergers to make executives richer while regular people keep paying more and more for shittier service.
They’re turning the internet into cable tv.