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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 🤷

Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI

Ope

Facebook flags Linux topics as ‘cybersecurity threats’ — posts and users being blocked | Tom’s Hardware

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.

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 🤨

Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas | Techdirt

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.

Crypto Platforms Like Polymarket Now Taking Bets on Los Angeles Fire Devastation

Wow crypto bros have hit a new low o.O

Clay Aiken says it was crucial to come out when he did even though he lost half his fans

“It was the first decision I made as a father,” he said at the time. “I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn’t raised that way, and I’m not going to raise a child to do that.”

This is one reason I’m so open about my bisexuality even though I’m in a straight relationship. I could hide it to fit in better, but I’d rather be honest about who I am. Also some straight people like to say a lot of terrible shit when they think a gay isn’t in the room with them.

MAGA civil war pits Ramaswamy and Musk vs Cernovich and Loomer in immigration fight

Elon Musk’s X is the town square for the MAGA movement, and by stepping into that square and firmly criticizing American culture – while praising the immigrant work ethic and parenting model – Ramaswamy threw down a gauntlet.

I thought they’d at least make it into the White House before the real infighting started 🍿

Headlights seem a lot brighter these days — because they are

Although the human eye can adapt to a wide range of light from sunlight to darkness, it takes some time to adjust. Especially for aging eyes, LEDs can be too bright, too blue and too concentrated.

This has been driving me absolutely insane lately. The LED headlights are bad enough, but if you’re in the more… rural parts of ‘merica you also have dipshits in jacked up trucks covered in cheap LED light bars from Walmart tailgating you in the slow lane.

‘Malcolm in the Middle’ cast to reunite for new episodes

Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek are reuniting for a new four-episode run of “Malcolm in the Middle” for Disney+ — 25 years after the beloved sitcom first launched.

I love this show. Who doesn’t? Hoping the new episodes will be a little longer since there are only four of them but either way I’ll take it!

Will Luigi Mangione’s tipster get the $60K reward? It’s complicated

…it’s not guaranteed that any one individual will get the full $60,000, especially considering taxes and the possibility of the reward being split between multiple people.

NYPD officials said more than 400 tips came in during the five-day period, with about 30 of them proving useful about the gunman’s whereabouts

Never trust a cop lmao this thing is going to pay out like a class action lawsuit.

This Is How Political Violence Goes Mainstream

Experts have different theories as to what’s driving this, but many agree that we’re due for more acts of political violence before the trend dissipates.

The original title I saw in my RSS feed was “Luigi Mangione and the Era of Normie Extremism” before they immediately changed it lol. Wild how every big news outlet thinks they need to over analyze this into oblivion. “Normies” are sick of living in a world tailored to the wealthy. Simple as that.

NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’

In the game, called “Among Us,”

Only context you need 😂

The Onion’s Infowars Bid Gets Blocked

In a statement, an attorney for the families told The New York Times that they “remain resilient and determined as ever to hold Alex Jones and his corrupt businesses accountable for the harm he has caused.”

Alex Jones won’t be held accountable. He’s learned nothing from this legal battle considering he still talks shit about the Sandy Hook families every chance he gets. Half of our government is being replaced with the same kind of batshit crazy radical right conspiracy theorists as we speak.

‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: ‘Something everyone agrees on’

Oxford University chose brain rot and the Macquarie Dictionary picked enshittification. I’m noticing a trend here 🤔

US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye

Red 3 is used in nearly 3,000 different food products, according to a database by one environmental health group, including Pez, Peeps, Betty Crocker’s products and Dubble Bubble chewing gum. Like other food dyes, it adds nothing of nutritional value and is used instead to add color to foods for marketing purposes.

I’ve always thought adding dye to everything we eat is dumb. Like how they add red dye to raw meat to make it look like it’s bleeding. o.O

…also Crystal Pepsi tastes the same as regular Pepsi. I’ll die on this hill.