Would you live on a cruise ship for four years to escape the Trump presidency?
If only I had a cool $160,000 to secure a spot
Microsoft is testing a new in-game browser
Doing what they can to get people to switch to Internet Explorer Edge 😏
You deserve a better browser than Google Chrome
If you’ve been using Chrome because it came as the default browser on your phone, you might want to try something new. If you’ve been using Chrome for 15 years because it was so innovative when it was introduced, that’s no longer the case, and you should definitely try something new.
I’d also add that if you’re using Chrome on iOS, you’re just using a shittier version of Safari that spies on you.
I really like Reeder 5 on iOS but I use Linux on my desktop so I’ve been constantly syncing OPML files between that and different web based RSS readers. I used Inoreader for a couple years but it’s so expensive for something that constantly suggests features to try and upsell you to the next tier. I switched to Feedbin a couple weeks ago and I think this is where my feeds will live for now. $50 a year and easy sync between iPhone and random Linux box.
Gaetz withdraws from consideration for Trump’s attorney general role
“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General,” Gaetz wrote.
Whoa he really doesn’t want that report to come out 😆
The FDA’s inspection took place in May, and Tom’s of Maine responded to its initial results in June. The FDA’s latest letter declares that the company’s June response was “inadequate,” so the agency is calling for further action.
Great way to freshen up after munching on some Boar’s Head deli meat with a side of listeria.
T-Mobile actually stopped some hackers from stealing customer data
T-Mobile detected suspicious activity in a recent attempt to access customer data and kicked the cyber criminals out before they were able to infiltrate deeper levels of the network.
Well now I’ve seen everything 🙃
The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on
I knew he wouldn’t go down without a fight. He’s just prolonging the inevitable, but he’s going to be as difficult and obnoxious as possible in the meantime.
Magnetic North Pole moves closer to Russia in a way scientists have never seen before
What a headline 😆
From 1600 to 1990, it is estimated to have moved about 10-15km a year. In the early 2000s, it sped up to around 55km a year…In the past five years, the magnetic north pole has significantly slowed down to about 25km a year.
At first glance it looks like a terrifying conspiracy theory about earth spinning off its axis and killing us all but I guess it’s pretty normal uneventful stuff.
RFK Jr. Told a Bunch of People the Government May Have “Planned” COVID
“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me. I don’t know.
I wonder when Alex Jones will get a cabinet seat.
So about those MrBeast allegations...
A few months ago I wrote about the drama surrounding MrBeast and his former co-star Ava Tyson.
I'm obsessed with this terminal emulator
Never thought I’d feel so strongly about a terminal app but I’ve been obsessed with Warp Terminal for the last week. It has built in AI so you can use natural language when you don’t know where to go next. I wish they had this kind of thing circa 2009 when I installed Ubuntu on my old HP Pavilion.
I’ve spent so many nights trying to install some obscure program, screwing something up and ultimately installing dependencies for dependencies for dependencies and breaking stuff to the point where I throw in the towel. Just used it a little bit ago to help me figure out how to get VS Code running on Wayland.
On the free account you get 100 queries per month, which isn’t a heck of a lot but if you go easy on them they can really bail you out when you need it. Lots of extra features on top of that, especially for coding and collaboration. I’m just lazy and like having the option to let AI do the work when I’m in over my head with everyday Linux stuff. Worth checking out if you spend a lot of time on the command line. I don’t think I need yet another subscription just for a terminal emulator but it’s so shiny and new and fancy 🤩
The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
This morning, The Pew Research Center…published a deep 122 page report that found that the news influencer landscape skews male and leans disproportionately conservative, creating a concerning imbalance in our online news landscape that could ultimately have profound political consequences.
I find the whole influencer thing pretty wack to begin with but we do need more liberals in the space. And women. We need fucking crazy leftist conspiracy theorists actually. Clearly there’s a market for it.
“The older I get the more conservative I get” aka switched from a rapid release distro to Debian with Firefox ESR. It’s all so stable 🥲
Scientists Discover ‘Immortal’ Marine Creature That Can ‘Time Travel’
I’ve been a broken record on the sea aliens lately but this is pretty cool, and actually real.
I like my cozy little echo chamber
I try to live in an echo chamber. I’m not into debates. I’m not a fan of confrontation at all, really. Some people thrive on it, I shut down and retreat into a sweaty shell.
When I’m reading an article or watching the news, while I do follow a lot of centrist sources, I try to stick with the farthest left publications I can find. I’m open to change; like if someone comes in and blows me away with mountains of evidence or a better take on something we disagreed on, I have no problem admitting I was wrong. I can change my perspective if it makes sense.
The US is a silly place. People will happily vote into office a guy who’s a convicted felon, rapist and white nationalist but all of that’s just fake news. Then a few conspiracy theorists who used to work for the government go in front of congress with no tangible evidence of anything and suddenly the entire TikTok and Twitter userbase is convinced aliens have been living in our oceans all along.
The Onion, InfoWars shenanigans
One [bid] was from the Jones-affiliated First United American Companies, which offered $3.5 million, the trustee revealed in court Thursday. The other, from The Onion, was lower but contained an incentive by some of the Sandy Hook families to forgo a portion of the sale proceeds and give it to other Jones’ creditors, the trustee, Christopher Murray, said.
[Judge Lopez’s] 20-page order on the sale procedures in September…gave broad authority to Murray to conduct the sale, including the power to reject any bid, no matter how high, that was “contrary to the best interests” of Jones, his company and their creditors.
Maybe I’m just an idiot but isn’t the point of this to liquidate his assets and pay the Sandy Hook families for damages? I get the part about the creditors but who gives a shit about Alex Jones or his company’s best interests? He’s showed absolutely no remorse for any of the misinformation he spread that got him here. He literally talks shit about the entire situation any chance he gets, as if he’s the victim and the families are just obsessed with him for no reason.
Murray had Infowars' website and studio shut down Thursday as he began the process of securing assets, a lawyer for the trustee said in court Thursday. But on Friday, Infowars and its websites were back up and running…Jones told listeners that Murray had told him it was wrong to shut down Infowars before the sale was finalized.
Why do I feel like he’ll somehow weasel his way out of this? The worst people get away with this kinda shit all the time. The judge says there are issues with transparency and the legality of The Onion being picked as the winning bid since it was for less money, and because there was no round of bidding after the initial bids were unsealed. Which the same judge said was optional according to his order.
I guess we’ll see how it goes next week at the hearing 🤞
Source: What happens next in The Onion’s effort to buy Alex Jones' Infowars
Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive
An Epic spokesperson subsequently confirmed that it has given the green light for the games to be hosted on the Internet Archive, telling PC Gamer, “We can confirm that Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament are available on archive.org and people are free to independently link to and play these versions.”
Finally some not terrible news relating to the Internet Archive! I was OBSESSED with UT ‘99 on the Dreamcast back in the day. Happy to see another classic saved from falling into complete obscurity.