mcflynnthm
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If you are a comic artist or writer that wants to talk to me, on or off the record, about the Disney OpenAI deal, shoot me a line. [email protected]
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you are a comic artist or writer that wants to talk to me, on or off the record, about the Disney OpenAI deal, shoot me a line. [email protected]
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I forgot to withdraw my application to the Chicago Marathon, and now it's too late. Whoops.
Guess we'll see what happens!
Guess we'll see what happens!
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I forgot to withdraw my application to the Chicago Marathon, and now it's too late. Whoops.
Guess we'll see what happens!
Guess we'll see what happens!
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Calibri is too woke for the State Department
Calibri is too woke for the State Department
Out with the old, in with the Times New Roman (again.)
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Calibri is too woke for the State Department
This is so stupid. And I'm sure no one will find out a way to use this inappropriately within moments of it going live!
OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora
OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora
Next year you’ll see AI videos on Disney Plus.
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is so stupid. And I'm sure no one will find out a way to use this inappropriately within moments of it going live!
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How long before it applies to US citizens as well.
Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
How long before it applies to US citizens as well.
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sigh
you'd think that the fact the president of the united states is completely fucking insane would be a bigger news story
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
sigh
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Need caffeine, water, & food, too, b/c i just speedwalked several miles. 😭😭😭 If anyone wants to make feel less completely despondent, you should get tix for tomorrow night's tour 🥺🥺🥺 bsky.app/profile/full...
We're not running this Fells Point tour regularly rn, so get it while you can! Our most popular tour—If you’ve ever wanted to learn what privateers or caulkers actually did, or if an evening full of liberation stories sounds great right now, this is for you fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#f...
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Need caffeine, water, & food, too, b/c i just speedwalked several miles. 😭😭😭 If anyone wants to make feel less completely despondent, you should get tix for tomorrow night's tour 🥺🥺🥺 bsky.app/profile/full...
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Besides everything else I think it’s so genuinely weird that there are people making content like this. Not just Portnoy, but also the guy who *made* this video. He watched Sunday’s games and immediately after seeing Portnoy’s post was like “Gotta make more content!“
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Besides everything else I think it’s so genuinely weird that there are people making content like this. Not just Portnoy, but also the guy who *made* this video. He watched Sunday’s games and immediately after seeing Portnoy’s post was like “Gotta make more content!“
Marathon training in the winter was a dumb idea, what am I thinking? 🥶
December 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Marathon training in the winter was a dumb idea, what am I thinking? 🥶
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Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.
AI is ruining everything, as always.
RAM is ruining everything
RAM is ruining everything
RAM-related price hikes are about to hit a bunch more devices.
buff.ly
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
AI is ruining everything, as always.
Long live the king.
Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/1428239/microsoft-excel-turns-40-remains-stubbornly-unkillable?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable
Microsoft Excel, the 40-year-old spreadsheet application that helped establish personal computers as essential workplace tools and contributed to Microsoft's current valuation of nearly $4 trillion, has weathered both the rise of cloud computing and the current AI boom largely unscathed. In its most...
it.slashdot.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Long live the king.
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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
Looks like I'm going out to LA in March. Hell yeah.
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Looks like I'm going out to LA in March. Hell yeah.
I just installed a pair of Z-Wave light switches and boy howdy that was supremely annoying. But everything works! And I didn't electrocute myself!
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I just installed a pair of Z-Wave light switches and boy howdy that was supremely annoying. But everything works! And I didn't electrocute myself!
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Hey, I know time’s are tough, so it’s all there for free, but if you’re looking to spend a few dollars on #bandcampfriday, I can always use the support!
tedleo.bandcamp.com
tedleo.bandcamp.com
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
tedleo.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hey, I know time’s are tough, so it’s all there for free, but if you’re looking to spend a few dollars on #bandcampfriday, I can always use the support!
tedleo.bandcamp.com
tedleo.bandcamp.com
I honestly thought QuickTime was dead and buried.
QuickTime Turns 34
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/05/031249/quicktime-turns-34?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
QuickTime Turns 34
On Dec. 2, QuickTime turned 34, and despite its origins in Apple's chaotic 1990s (1991 to be exact), "it's still the backbone of video on our devices," writes Macworld's Jason Snell. That includes MP4 and Apple's immersive video formats for Vision Pro. From the report: By the late '80s and early '9...
news.slashdot.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I honestly thought QuickTime was dead and buried.
I understand why people aren't as familiar with how to drive on icy roads down here, but it definitely makes winter driving feel way more dangerous here than back in Mass.
If you hit ice while driving, stay calm and take it slow. ❄️🚗
Keep your wheel straight and don’t panic. 😌🛞
Gently take your foot off the gas and let the car slow on its own. 🦶⬇️
Tap your brakes lightly; do not slam them. 🚫🛑
And above all, slow down. 🐌⚠️
Keep your wheel straight and don’t panic. 😌🛞
Gently take your foot off the gas and let the car slow on its own. 🦶⬇️
Tap your brakes lightly; do not slam them. 🚫🛑
And above all, slow down. 🐌⚠️
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I understand why people aren't as familiar with how to drive on icy roads down here, but it definitely makes winter driving feel way more dangerous here than back in Mass.
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If you hit ice while driving, stay calm and take it slow. ❄️🚗
Keep your wheel straight and don’t panic. 😌🛞
Gently take your foot off the gas and let the car slow on its own. 🦶⬇️
Tap your brakes lightly; do not slam them. 🚫🛑
And above all, slow down. 🐌⚠️
Keep your wheel straight and don’t panic. 😌🛞
Gently take your foot off the gas and let the car slow on its own. 🦶⬇️
Tap your brakes lightly; do not slam them. 🚫🛑
And above all, slow down. 🐌⚠️
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If you hit ice while driving, stay calm and take it slow. ❄️🚗
Keep your wheel straight and don’t panic. 😌🛞
Gently take your foot off the gas and let the car slow on its own. 🦶⬇️
Tap your brakes lightly; do not slam them. 🚫🛑
And above all, slow down. 🐌⚠️
Keep your wheel straight and don’t panic. 😌🛞
Gently take your foot off the gas and let the car slow on its own. 🦶⬇️
Tap your brakes lightly; do not slam them. 🚫🛑
And above all, slow down. 🐌⚠️
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these anti-vaxers are going to kill so many people, especially children, and not one of them will ever face any consequences for it
A federal advisory panel with power over vaccine policy has voted to stop recommending a universal newborn shot to prevent the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver disease — a major shakeup to the childhood vaccine schedule under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vaccine advisory panel votes to end universal newborn hep B shot in major shakeup
Parents appear to be able to continue to get the hep B vaccine for their kids, but the move could cause confusion among families and logistical barriers for health providers.
19thnews.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
these anti-vaxers are going to kill so many people, especially children, and not one of them will ever face any consequences for it
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Greetings on this glorious Bandcamp Friday!
We hugely appreciate your support this year and always, and today it's especially impactful - all our bands have some really cool stuff up for sale and we think it's very much worth your time to check it out! Thank you!
powergothrecordings.bandcamp.com
We hugely appreciate your support this year and always, and today it's especially impactful - all our bands have some really cool stuff up for sale and we think it's very much worth your time to check it out! Thank you!
powergothrecordings.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Greetings on this glorious Bandcamp Friday!
We hugely appreciate your support this year and always, and today it's especially impactful - all our bands have some really cool stuff up for sale and we think it's very much worth your time to check it out! Thank you!
powergothrecordings.bandcamp.com
We hugely appreciate your support this year and always, and today it's especially impactful - all our bands have some really cool stuff up for sale and we think it's very much worth your time to check it out! Thank you!
powergothrecordings.bandcamp.com
It's @bandcamp.com Friday y'all, what are we buying?
I'm gonna start with the new one from Cigarette Camp, out on @deadbrokerekerds.bsky.social
deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com/album/steps
I'm gonna start with the new one from Cigarette Camp, out on @deadbrokerekerds.bsky.social
deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com/album/steps
Steps, by Cigarette Camp
19 track album
deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's @bandcamp.com Friday y'all, what are we buying?
I'm gonna start with the new one from Cigarette Camp, out on @deadbrokerekerds.bsky.social
deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com/album/steps
I'm gonna start with the new one from Cigarette Camp, out on @deadbrokerekerds.bsky.social
deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com/album/steps