Monday, May 19, 2025

Today's news and jokes









(NYTimes starts its summary by describing it as "a setback for Europe’s surging nationalist forces," and cautions the result will "stoke accusations that the system is rigged")







Collapse in the number of necessary coder jobs combined with computer science being the most popular Gen Z major (especially popular among people who want to make a lot of money) is going to lead to a lot of generational unhappiness

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) May 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM


those viral apocalyptic AI memos are basically a form of management pornography nymag.com/intelligence...

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— John Herrman (@jwherrman.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
(The "optimistic" case is companies are claiming they're using AI to operate jobs when they're really just laying off people because business is bad right now)







When our daughter was 7, she invented the 'Kicktopus' and it is better than every single creature shown in this video.

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— AJ Jefferies (@moonjam.com) May 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM








We’re about to learn whether a bunch of people who’ve turned Biden bashing into their personal income stream have a shred of decency and humanity.

— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) May 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
("establishment dems ... trying to perform accountability to prove they're a different party. But they're not doing accountability about anything that actually matters to voters")















New cover colors with the mighty Takashi Okazaki. All the atomic breath and shit is going to be foil from what I hear

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— rico. (@whoisrico.bsky.social) May 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM

This was my first try , wanted a bit more separation between Iron Man and the Big G but this breath is owned by a different corporation I guess?

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— rico. (@whoisrico.bsky.social) May 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM








This is some serious Matrix-style non-human movement from Varsho.

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— Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan.bsky.social) May 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM


I mean, that light blue line is about 13 feet off the ground.

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— Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan.bsky.social) May 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM








The one thing that maybe freaks me out more about humanity than anything else is seeing how even the smartest, kindest people I knew were okay with the NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS affiliates they grew up with being on different numbers on the dial than what *I* grew up with.

— Bill Mudron (@mudron.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM








@denvergazette Colorado School of Mines students partook in the 91st Engineering Days this weekend, highlighted by the annual cardboard boat races. Around 100 entries partook in the challenge, in which the students can only use cardboard and duct tape to create their water craft. 🎥 @CO School of Mines #boat #colorado #race #mines #school #students #cardboard ♬ original sound - denvergazette








@motek_

Nbd just pulling a 50lb potato out of the dryer

♬ Western Music: Arizona Dreaming - Piero Piccioni








@littlebitofbre

6 months and 7.5 million views later, he still doesn’t use this bed right

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@angelaryan18 Neighborhood watch taking his job seriously #dogsoftiktok ♬ sonido original - Vibes by Ley








@faveladanyy10 Celebrates every goal like this 🤣 #soccer #cristianoronaldo #fyp ♬ original sound - FavelaDanyy10




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