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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?”
Swedish and Danish news not holding back
[via Reddit]
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
Friday, February 28, 2025
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 Lou Plummer https://social.lol/@amerpie/114077478068141303 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.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 →
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 🤷
Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI
Ope
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 🤨
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
A dumb week for Apple
Friday, January 3, 2025
We’re living in a surveillance state run by oligarchs, but the surveillance is mostly to serve you the finest targeted ads. We are in the dumbest possible timeline. I don’t know why I’m surprised about anything anymore lol 🔗 What to know about Apple’s $95 million settlement of the snooping Siri case 🔗 Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
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 🍿
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 →
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!