Senate Dems Hand Trump a Win by Backing Stablecoin Bill
“Many senators, myself included, have very real concerns about the Trump family’s use of crypto… But we cannot allow that corruption to blind us to the broader reality: blockchain technology is here to stay.” - Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va
Someone once told me anything built on the blockchain can always be built better using something else. Crypto is literally designed to reward early investors and dump on the rest. I get that the bill is just for stable coins but they go hand in hand with the other 20,000+ shitcoins. Wack.
Unknown Species of Bacteria Discovered in China’s Space Station
Swabs from China’s Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers above the planet’s surface.
Life, uh… finds a way 👀
PICO-8 - The tiny fantasy console that runs on .PNGs
Retro games are my jam. Anything with at least 8 bits, a sword, and a dungeon to escape can usually keep me occupied for hours days. Lately, I’ve been going through a Metroidvania kick on the Switch, but yesterday I started playing with my R36S handheld for the first time in a few weeks when I discovered something I never saw coming…
Blogging for the future
I was surfing different streaming apps last night when I realized Peacock has the entire backlog of Saturday Night Live available to watch. My favorites were always the 90’s stuff, so I started with one that Tom Hanks hosted back in 1992, just a few weeks after the Rodney King riots.
George H-Dubya was still president but Ross Perot and Bill Clinton were campaigning hard right before the elections that November. Watching the Weekend Update with Kevin Nealon for the next few episodes was like stepping into a time capsule.
You can just open your laptop, go back in time and get a taste of what was happening around the world any given Saturday for the last five decades. I think that’s pretty neat.
It got me thinking about blogging. I’ve heard a few people on the indie web say something to this effect, but the longer you maintain your own little website, the further back your personal time machine goes.
Blog for your future self, if no one else <3
This news from the Digg.com Groundbreaker group is a week or two old at this point, but the mobile app looks like it’s coming along pretty nicely! Love that they’re building this alongside the website right from the start.
I know I’m getting old because I’m starting to actually look forward to riding around the yard on a little red mower every week like Hank Hill.
Bezos' private jet usage seems to contradict the company’s public stance of being climate-friendly. He is not the only executive whose practices are not in alignment with their company’s eco-related goals.
Literally 2/3 of global warming is caused by the top 10% of the population. Billionaires are a fucking problem.
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
[VPNSecure] owners told customers that they didn’t know about the lifetime subscriptions when they bought VPNSecure, and they cannot honor the purchases.
It’s almost like they’re taking a page right out of The Art of the Deal 🥴
I keep seeing ads on TikTok for these barefoot shoes. I’m sure they’re probably really comfy and good for your feet but I can’t get over how perfect they would be for a Ronald McDonald cosplay 🤪
I used to think Canadian geese were a nuisance but then I realized they’re just the raccoons of the sky. Drinking dirty parking lot water out of pot holes and stealing food out of the trash. They’re cute. And terrifying.
Look, I am not a religious man, and in fact have some serious issues with the Catholic Church…I will defend Catholics who take offense to it, though, because it is no doubt intentionally hurtful, which is the other thing the dead-inside Trump is effortlessly good at.
I, too, am a non-religious guy who has a lot of problems with the church. But even I have to admit it’s pretty fucking wacky for all of Trump’s Christian nationalist minions not to realize he’s the closest thing to a literal antichrist we’ve had in the better part of a century.
Whistleblower Luis Elizondo Shows Fake UFO Photo Again
The question now looms large: can Luis Elizondo be considered a credible voice in the ongoing UAP conversation?
Hey now he’s just as credible as any other UFO guy (not very)
WATCH: Driver stops in middle of interstate, causes pile up
Just a regular day on I-71 in Columbus, Ohio 🫤
Any time we get a severe thunderstorm warning in central Ohio it rains for like 10 minutes and then it’s done. I want a good storm dammit 🥱
I live 400 yards from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive data center
Companies like Meta are a plague on society.
You know, sometimes I don’t even believe my backwards seasonal depression is real. Then suddenly it’s 80 degrees outside and I can’t even begin to comprehend how humanity has survived so long on this hell planet 🥵🔥
Your New Lunch Habit Is Hurting the Economy
A society where you’re a broke piece of shit for Starbucks and Avocado Toast®️ but you’re killing the economy if you don’t eat fast food for lunch
Blue Origin Space Flight Backlash
“I think that this space mission is confusing to people because seeing women and people of color in spaces like science and politics that have not previously included them feels and looks like…progress,” Emily Ratajkowski shared in a TikTok video that questioned the point of the flight. “But the truth is, is that having a man who has gained his power and become a part of the one percent purely through exploitation and greed deciding to take his fiancée and a few other famous women to space for space tourism is not progress.”
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At work today, I had an older lady call in to ask how much one of our mattresses weigh. She wasn’t a new customer; she had already bought it a few years ago and was perfectly happy with it. But it was surprisingly heavy when she had to move the thing, so she just got curious and wanted to ask somebody about it.
These days, that’s something you can easily find out in a split second with a quick Google search. Why even bother calling some stranger when you can just look it up?