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📰 Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, five more counties added to state emergency declaration — #MichiganPublic
Nearly half of #Michigan's counties are on the list of areas affected by severe April weather. The month is only a little more than half done, what more could happen?
How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-george-orwell-predicted-the-rise-of-ai-slop.html
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, and Bob Dylan have never hesitated to acknowledge his influence.
After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...
Have a good Friday everyone!
I buy peppermint tea from Aldi. It's not very convenient because every single individual tea bag is wrapped in paper for some reason but I can at least just go and buy them from a shop with cash normally. At least until 2024, when they started wrapping each? individual?? teabag???? in plastic??????? so of course I stopped buying my teabags there because, well, OBVIOUSLY I stopped, wew lad yikes. I sent Aldi an email saying hey yo I'm not buying your weird plastic-wrapped teabags, email me when you come to your senses, they emailed back almost immediately saying they were a very sustainable company actually and you can put the plastic in the recycling and do not reply to this email.
So I started getting Celestial Seasonings tea bags which just come in a cardboard box lined with wax paper. I bought a bunch of boxes off the evil monster bastard empire amazon. Then I went grumble grumble well I suppose I should stop buying shit from amazon as well, they're so convenient why can't they just be good, so I would occasionally grab a box out of Giant Eagle, which is a real American grocery chain that actually exists and has that name and this is your daily reminder that it's impossible to satirize Americans.
Anyway spouse has a sore throat and needs much pep T so yesterday I was gonna go to the whiskey shop for whiskey and Aldi for milk and also heck we're out of mintyhot so I went up to Giant Eagle and as I was walking up to the door a guy walked in with a handgun and one of those belts with all bullets around it straight past the bouncer bold as brass and I turned right around and went nah fuck that I'll go to Aldi.
Defeated at amazon by their evil-capitalism shittiness and defeated at giant eagle by their guns-yay shittiness I returned to Aldi to embrace their that's-a-lot-of-plastic-even-for-americans shittiness and I shamefully bought a box of peppermint-plastic tea.
And when I opened it this morning the teabags were still individually wrapped, but in paper like they were before. So like, still a pain in the arse and a pointless waste, but apparently while I wasn't buying their plastic-wrapped teabags they stopped wrapping them in plastic. And never bothered to email me back and say hey Dan we did what you asked, come back and give us money.
You don't expect buying teabags to have fucking three acts and a betrayal and a twist and a redemption arc but here we are I suppose
In an attempt to justify their killing of a Lebanese journalist, the Israeli military shares a photo of the journalist in a Hezbollah military uniform, arguing that that he was a terrorist.
However, it now turns out, this “photo” was AI generated by the Israeli military, because they have no real evidence of a connection between the journalist and Hezbollah.
France 24 has the story.
Ok, fellow hackers, I propose a pact: That new EU age verification app thingy ... do NOT help improve it.
Don't publish findings. Don't responsibly disclose insecurities. Don't facilitate them making it bulletproof.
If personal data is directly at risk, by all means, slam their asses into the ground. GDPR them into oblivion.
But on its core functionality this needs to be, to become, and to stay, the most insecure, the most easily circumventable piece of shit code on the planet.
He did it again: Trump announces seemingly imaginary Iran breakthrough, taking Wall Street for another ride
In a manic series of posts, Trump lays out a vision of victory that looks like a humiliating loss.
Open Culture (Official)
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
Randahl Fink
Henryk Plötz
False Knees
Uncharted Blue