pedro pascal is a creep

Framework announced the Framework 13 Pro including full Linux support right from the beginning.

The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture made by unknown Etruscan sculptors (5th century BC), with the twins Romulus and Remus added in the late 15th century AD, by sculptor Antonio del Pollaiuolo. The sculptural group depicts a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome, occurred on 21 April 753 BC.

“What’s different in the last two years is the ease with which Americans can find writers, historians, and good Samaritans sharing their tips and hard truths online for planning to move. An entirely new genre has emerged that’s part survival manual, part dispatch from beyond a deteriorating state. Those resources aside, the process is anything but easy and frictionless. Still, there is a sense of possibility”

Top Conservative and Liberal MPs are downplaying U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s comments dumping on Canada’s strategy heading into major trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico.

New study demonstrates effects of cocaine contamination on wild fish behaviour for the first time

Justice department’s focus seems to be on SPLC’s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, group’s CEO says

Mexico to investigate possible breach of its constitution and assess US’s role in anti-drug operation near Chihuahua

Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple “hallucinations” made by AI software.

Die Stimmen werden immer lauter

/s obviously

Malus, which is a piece of “satire” but also fully functional, performs a “clean room” clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the “clean room” argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software – and somehow the output of the LLMs isn’t considered a derivative work.

A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

all those layoffs really paying for themselves

The organization, which works to counter the KKK and other hate groups, says it’s being targeted for political purposes.

April 21, 2026

The United Arab Emirates apparently dropped a hint the dollar’s dominance isn’t assured in the global oil trade if fallout from the Iran war gets worse.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/post/3mjzhnxviok2i

Tides of Tomorrow on Steam

What’s ole Whiskey Leaks trying to accomplish here? A creation of bio warfare soldiers?

Did you know some turtles can breathe through their butt? 😳 Sounds fake… but it’s 100% real. In this video, we explore one of the weirdest survival tricks in nature called cloacal respiration — a method that helps certain turtles survive underwater for long periods without coming up for air. Why do they do this? How does it actually work? And is it really as strange as it sounds? Watch till the end to find out. https://youtu.be/raL1wZx_gFU

Not my OC. Just found it on an old hard drive when I was looking for something else.

Well this is new.

Two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, have been killed in an attack involving Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered an investigation into the role played by two US officials who reportedly worked for the CIA in a counter-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua.

Something Onion-worthy from Finland

Cross-Posted, via ShitPost Community.

Executives from three social media companies have denied their platforms are inherently addictive to children and young people, in a combative appearance before MPs in Westminster.

Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash. (Please don’t let Kevin Bacon die!)

A woman who was tortured in one of China’s notorious Uyghur detention camps has launched a blistering attack on [UK Prime Minister} Sir Keir Starmer, accusing him of “disrespecting human rights” by approving plans for a Chinese mega-embassy in London.

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers ​to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents ‌that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.

what if instead of “the author’s barely disguised fetish” it was blatantly obvious but done in the most mundane way possible, like you got a 100-foot tall woman in the story but the focus is a complex legal battle about her struggle to get planning permission for a house her size and not much else

The committee released the list of publicly disclosed investigations involving alleged sexual misconduct by members of the House stretching back to 1976.

The tourists lining the steep embankment buzzed with excitement, phones out, snapping away in the twilight as a wild Indian rhinoceros grazed below the Nepali village of Sauraha. Climbing to the main street, the rhino ambled down the middle of the road.

This is a man who said (in 2019) that he hasn’t washed his hands for 10 years and germs aren’t real since you can’t see them with the naked eye:

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth.

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, when asked to explain the apparent about-face that led him to advocate the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, quoted a beloved Israeli pop ballad. “What you can see from there, you can’t see from here,” he said, referring to the shift in perspective he had supposedly undergone since coming to power.