With rice prices rising, a business in Japan is selling a 5,000 yen "rice growing experience".
— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) May 4, 2025
You plant your own plot of rice. After the fall harvest you'll get 20-25kg of rice for about 25% of the current price you'd pay at a grocery store.pic.twitter.com/dZlaspuMsK
"Oleksiy Zhulinskiy, the [CTO] of 3DTech, says that the Chinese dominate the fibre market, and that Russian and Ukrainian buyers have bumped into one another in Chinese factories ... Pre-paid orders have sometimes been gazumped by Russian buyers" www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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In a stunning defeat for the #spyware industry, an Oakland jury has directed Pegasus maker NSO Group to pay Meta's WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages for routing its attacks through the company's servers. GIFT LINK wapo.st/4jLGYKz
— Joseph Menn (@joemenn.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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i think the reality is that in the modern media ecosystem, the algorithms allow people to put almost anything in your face, no matter how rare, and convince you that it’s an epidemic
— Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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trying to imagine the reaction to two planes falling off an aircraft carrier with kamala harris as president
— darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
("the targeted nature of the raid raises suspicions that farm management could have tipped off immigration officials. 'Our concern is that this might have been some sort of operation that was potentially even coordinated with the employer'" ) ("United Farm Workers rallies for release of detained migrant farm workers")NEW: On Friday, ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody.
— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) May 5, 2025
Those workers — and their employer — just happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept pic.twitter.com/sOGn1k3pZA
Bungie Store is aware of the high shipping rates that were being applied to West Coast US bound orders of the Destiny 2 : Year of Prophecy Collector's Edition. A fix has been applied; affected customers will be contacted by Bungie Store customer service team in 5-7 business days.
— Bungie Store (@BungieStore) May 6, 2025
The toy industry has definitely arrived at its own “ORDER 66” moment this week.
— Dan Veesenmeyer (@dveese) May 6, 2025
The switch is about to flip EVERYWHERE all at once.
And it’s gonna hurt. pic.twitter.com/JmpXs6gmvo
Let me get this straight: My daughter can only have THREE dolls, but the Red Sea can have as many super hornets as it wants?
— Ben Kuchera (@benkuchera.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
(Half the article is about the significance of the word itself)NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.
— WIRED (@wired.com) May 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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("media are invited to capture her latest costume upon arrival")Advisory from IL Dem Gov JB Pritzker’s office on planned Wednesday visit of Homeland Security Secy Kristi Noem to Springfield: “We would urge all pet owners in the region to make sure all of your beloved animals are under watchful protection while the Secretary is in the region.”
— Rick Pearson (@rap30) May 6, 2025
("many of the unsold condos on the market today are ones designed for investors or real estate speculators and are not practical for most families. 'They are roughly the size of large hotel room, only meant to be rented out, and there’s been simply a massive overbuilding of non-family units'")Toronto’s unsold condo rate has reached ‘an incredible level’: experthttps://t.co/LvS99bzCse pic.twitter.com/xX8ncKmazj
— CTV News Toronto (@CTVToronto) May 5, 2025
Horseracing trainer with over $10M in lifetime winnings is banned for life for violating the rules on giving steroid injections to her horses. www.drf.com/news/penn-tr...
— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Sharing this from Imgur. Any makers out there that can help? @trans.bsky.social This may interest you. imgur.com/gallery/funn...
— Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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@albaa.aa1 #creep #imjustagirl #girlpower #girlssupportgirls #womanoftiktok #runlikeagirl #fyp ♬ Non, je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf
(Presumably looking for a missing child)@myfriendtherealtorhtx Soooooo weird and with no explanation #fyp #wtf ♬ Theme from the Walking Dead - Bear McCreary
@averagegirlcheck true story
♬ take my breath away - favsoundds
@annemkelley the work is mysterious and important. sometimes the numbers are scary #jobs #jobsearch #delta #fyp #fypã‚· ♬ Main Titles - Theodore Shapiro
@dukethatgolden My golden retriever is a lot of things but intelligence may not be one of them…. #goldenretriever ♬ original sound - Duke The Golden
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