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Will someone please think of the oligarchs and government subsidized mega corporations‽ 🤪
Target foot traffic falls for seventh consecutive week
For the latest week, Costco’s foot traffic gain was the near-inverse of Target’s loss: It was up 7%.
I was never big on Target and I absolutely despise Walmart but the other half and I JUST got Costco memberships for the first time last month.
It’s the only grocery store I’ve been to lately where I’ve yet to run into someone wearing a MAGA hat. I actually like shopping there even.
Honestly I’m holding back a lot on this post, I’m a total Costco nerd now and I’m absolutely obnoxious about it. Just ask my girlfriend.
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards for the Switch for family sharing
…when you buy a digital system of a game, it is loaded as a Virtual Game Card on a dedicated management screen. You can virtually load and eject your Virtual Game Cards. This will work for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 systems.
I was just thinking the other day, I have SO MANY games I’ve bought and didn’t end up liking. You can only lend out one of these for two weeks though. Would be cool if you could dump off unwanted stuff to whoever wants it but I get why that wouldn’t be a great business model.
NASA Drops Promise to Land “First Woman, Person of Color” on the Moon
“A giant step back for womankind?”
The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0
It was 2009. Ish. I had a modded original Xbox plugged into a 29" CRT TV sitting on top of a dresser in my bedroom. I used a content aggregator called Navi-X to stream everything from TV shows like Lost to random internet radio stations.
I never missed a new episode of Diggnation.
Reddit was this weird 90’s looking website that I didn’t really understand. It was too big and bland.
Digg.com was where I spent my time online, doomscrolling via click wheel mouse on an old HP Pavilion running an ancient version of Ubuntu.
Eventually Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht announced that Diggnation was coming to an end. They’d both been moving on to bigger and better things over the years, and Kevin eventually decided it was time to sell Digg and move on.
For a few weeks nothing really changed, then it kinda shifted from a community where people share links that get up/down voted like Reddit into a privately aggregated link blog that shared the most popular stories from around.. probably Reddit and Twitter or something.
I was stoked a few months ago when Kevin and Alex reunited to do a few new episodes of Diggnation! Kevin half jokingly said he’d be open to buying back Digg.com if the owner was interested in selling.
Apparently they were! It’s going to be interesting to watch it unfold. Definitely getting hit with some nostalgia right now.
You can sign up for the waitlist at reboot.digg.com
🔗 Kagi, search tips
Just 16 companies are responsible for the majority of the SEO enshittified websites that fill your search results with crap. You can use the Ublacklist extension to block them from appearing in Google or, better yet, use Kagi which can natively exclude them. https://codeberg.org/bbbhltz/16CompaniesFilters
Better Internet Searches | Linkage
I’ve been using Kagi on and off for a while now. I’ve been pretty hardcore about it lately though; it’s so much better than Google and they give you complete control over the results you see when you search for something.
Anyway, really good post by Lou Plummer. He also posted his blocklist for Kagi too if you partake.
Ohio Senate passes bill to change marijuana law
The weed here is already overpriced garbage compared to Michigan. I guess they just wanna see all of the business go back there again O.o
Found on Reddit
Is Intel in trouble? How struggling chipmaker’s financial issues may impact Ohio factories
Everyone hyped this up so much and now Intel is falling way behind schedule and generally doing terrible as a company lol things come to Ohio to die 💁
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)
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.
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.