explained to a zoomer today about what the new york times public editor job was. "what the hell that sounds like such a good idea" welp yeah
today's protests: kind of notable to me how many signs had guillotines on them and how little the boomers cared about it
ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
this timeline is fucking wild https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:4t2ziwnnescprzorvmrfduey&cid=bafkreic6on5bvot2wu2sfisvvc2b6udez4zcgdikfufo6pjec32o5sutt4
the weirdness at the Copyright Office intensifies, with both Dems and MAGA pointing fingers at Elon Musk for the firing of Shira Perlmutter, and identifying the AI report as the reason [www.theverge.com/politics/666...]( ) [Elon Musk’s apparent power pla...]( )
Bluesky's userbase tilts pretty far towards liberals (gonna count progs as libs, but apologetically and with all due respec). But to everyone calling this place an outlier / echo chamber let me give you some admittedly unscientific anecdata:
One of the funniest things about the oligarch group chats story is the implication that the story leaked now due to the chats falling apart from Trump tarriffs. Like people are getting disappeared and the president's son is "joking" about no elections in 2028 but it was tarriffs that triggered them
In Vietnam, the war is called "the American War." The Verge's package commemorating the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon is now fully live: [www.theverge.com/cs/features/...]( ) [American War]( )
This morning's addition to our extraordinary American War package is this beautiful comic by Matt Huynh: [www.theverge.com/cs/features/...]( ) [American War]( )
the funny thing about signalgate is that it wouldn't have been funny 6 months ago, it would be very serious and horrifying, but our bodies have stopped producing cortisol and signalgate is only funny thing to have happened in months