One Clue That Kyrsten Sinema Is Retiring: Her Weird Spending (The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-clue-that-kyrsten-sinema-is-retiring-her-weird-spending
When the tech billionaire promoted a virulent speech by a Dutch white nationalist, it opened a window on a far-right movement to get people (some people, anyway) to have more babies.
Elon Musk’s Weird Obsession With “Low Birth Rates” Takes an Ugly Turn | The New Republic
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Sound and Water Make Weird Vibes in Microgravity
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-d88829bc-85f61b4be62cad88
Sound and Water Make Weird Vibes in Microgravity NASA astronaut [Don Pettit] shared a short video from an experiment he performed on th…
They did it again...
The next weird device to run Doom? Your lawnmower
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-next-weird-device-to-run-doom-your-lawnmower?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=…
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What’s one of the weirdest things that happens in your story?
In a tale that's weird from the first page, nothing is the strange.
Maybe The Mad God qualifies though, he's pretty weird, and he's (as the name suggests) mad, which means he can and will do anything that strikes his fancy. Like when he, in the shape of a huge fox, jumped between the stars a…
Google Phone app beta rolls out "Audio Emoji", letting callers select an emoji to play animated sound effects: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, sting (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/30/google-phone-audio-emoji-rollout/…
It's funny cause it hits the right targets (Big Tech) but the way that GDPR has become mostly a lever to do a replacement-punishment is kinda weird.
Sure, you now have a stick to beat MetaMicrosoftGoogle's money bags with but is it really about privacy? About an affirmative use that's based on an actual vision for how privacy in connected societies should work? Or is it just "I can't get you for what I feel you do wrong so I'll try to frame it as a privacy issu…
Isn't it weird how government spending proposals that benefit people (say: UBI or Pharmacare) always end up with the PBO saying they'll benefit the economy more than Government thinks…. but new industry subsidies for fail-techno-solutions always cost us more.
CBC: “Carbon capture tax credit could cost taxpayers $1B more than expected, PBO warns”
They did it again...
The next weird device to run Doom? Your lawnmower
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-next-weird-device-to-run-doom-your-lawnmower?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=…