"It starts, specifically, with the sight of working class people being used as weapons against themselves. Not by accident, not through some failure of communication or lack of the right messaging, but deliberately and with considerable skill" -- @… writing very much what I'm feeling today.
Worth a read.
I feel sorry for the time traveler coming here from the 20th century, seeing claims of teleportation in the (US) headlines, and discovering that we didn't _actually_ figure out teleportation - it's just one of our whackjob leaders spouting off.
No flying cars, either. Sorry mate.
Fucking around with a Sony A7S that was loaned to me ages ago. I'm finally at the point with the work that I do where I'm feeling the need to be able to run a camera myself, even if it's just to clearly communicate with people I work with.
It has a Sony FE 1.8/50 lens, that's all I've got to work with 😂
#photography
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…
If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r
There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44
From Ukraine: Considering the politics of American citizens.
Those who didn't vote at all are the most despicable and unforgivable.
By not voting against Trump, they silently supported him.
When fascism and cruelty are on the ballot, voting is a moral obligation.
All of the deaths coming from Trump's cruelty, all of the blood flowing today and going forward- is blood on their hands.
People who "don't do politics" let the whole world d…
Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-opus-release-mythos
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/everything-is-coming-down-chatgpt-ads-are-gett…