Rick Stein
@urband1.bsky.social
Official GenX ombudsman.✌️
Data Ninja
Data Ninja
The amount of money currently being spent on AI indicates that we should be seeing noticeable improvements in our daily lives right now, not at some point in the future. So ask yourself, does any of this make any sense?
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The amount of money currently being spent on AI indicates that we should be seeing noticeable improvements in our daily lives right now, not at some point in the future. So ask yourself, does any of this make any sense?
Fuck these fuckers.
“If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to ‘supervision at all times,’ then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, & internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity.”
The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.
If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Fuck these fuckers.
Reposted by Rick Stein
PSA: Kīlauea here in Hawaiʻi is doing its thing and you want to see it.
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
PSA: Kīlauea here in Hawaiʻi is doing its thing and you want to see it.
Mark Kelly gonna be president some day
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Mark Kelly gonna be president some day
Bingo 👇👇👇
How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
Here's what this is actually about, dumbass
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Bingo 👇👇👇
Great job America!!!
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Great job America!!!
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The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
Done
Everyone who cares about attacks on govt data should be following @hansilowang.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/hans...
On Oct. 10, the Census Bureau issued a notice of a mass layoff of 101 employees of its contact center in Tucson, Ariz., which is now on pause because of court order in a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees
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www.azjobconnection.gov/search/warn_...
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Done
Reposted by Rick Stein
Name and shame the most despicable defiers of the public’s Right to Know! Nominations for this year’s Foilies are now open! www.muckrock.com/news/archiv...
It’s time to name and shame: Let us know 2025’s worst transparency offenders with a Foilies nomination!
Brought to you by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock, the Foilies “honor” the institutions and individuals most determined to keep the public in the dark.
www.muckrock.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Name and shame the most despicable defiers of the public’s Right to Know! Nominations for this year’s Foilies are now open! www.muckrock.com/news/archiv...
Welp
Trump: "I gave them as you know unlimited water, Biden came back with a rigged election, and he immediately restricted the water again. But I came back in and immediately unrestricted it again. So now you have unlimited water to clean your damn dishes."
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Welp
Seems bad
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Seems bad
Data center graveyards are not as far off as you think
The debate over GPU depreciation and lifespan accounting isn’t going away.
$ORCL $META
@opinion.bloomberg.com @brookesample.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
$ORCL $META
@opinion.bloomberg.com @brookesample.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Data center graveyards are not as far off as you think
Reposted by Rick Stein
Tucked away deep in the Settings app on Android are all sorts of privacy and security features you may have never seen. It’s time to get to know those settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Get to Know Android Privacy and Security Settings
Open up your Android phone’s Settings app and you’ll find dozens of different options with little guidance on what those options do. Some of these settings have a serious impact on your privacy and security, altering what data gets shared automatically with apps, data brokers, and Google itself.
What sorts...
ssd.eff.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Tucked away deep in the Settings app on Android are all sorts of privacy and security features you may have never seen. It’s time to get to know those settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
Honestly at this point I'm thankful for the feud between Disney and YouTubeTV
@minakimes.bsky.social
@minakimes.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Honestly at this point I'm thankful for the feud between Disney and YouTubeTV
@minakimes.bsky.social
@minakimes.bsky.social
It is 100% absolute bullshit that a YouTube TV subscriber has to physically claim a $20 credit for their Disney nonsense
BOO
BOO
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It is 100% absolute bullshit that a YouTube TV subscriber has to physically claim a $20 credit for their Disney nonsense
BOO
BOO
Why does Palantir need so many handouts? If you wanna talk about welfare deadbeats look at their CEO Alex Karp.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why does Palantir need so many handouts? If you wanna talk about welfare deadbeats look at their CEO Alex Karp.
CEO of Palantir throwing his hat in the ring for biggest asshole on the planet
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
CEO of Palantir throwing his hat in the ring for biggest asshole on the planet
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Dammit. RIP Donna. I simply love the Donna years.
#GratefulDead
#GratefulDead
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Dammit. RIP Donna. I simply love the Donna years.
#GratefulDead
#GratefulDead
I have a Rob Schneider story
When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.
October 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I have a Rob Schneider story
Fuck yeah!!!
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Fuck yeah!!!
If it feels like we are living in stupid times, it's because we are.
“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
October 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
If it feels like we are living in stupid times, it's because we are.
Too funny
This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Too funny
Now THAT'S a goddamn movie poster!!!
Released #OTD in 1974 #grindhouse #filmsky
Fun Facts: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead performed most of the guitar and banjo music in the movie.
Fun Facts: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead performed most of the guitar and banjo music in the movie.
September 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Now THAT'S a goddamn movie poster!!!
All the world's problems look like nails if all you know how to use is a hammer
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
All the world's problems look like nails if all you know how to use is a hammer
Red and white
Blue suede shoes
I'm Uncle Sam
How do you do?
Blue suede shoes
I'm Uncle Sam
How do you do?
August 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Red and white
Blue suede shoes
I'm Uncle Sam
How do you do?
Blue suede shoes
I'm Uncle Sam
How do you do?