Saturday, February 28, 2026

Today's news and jokes

I just got a Batman tomagotchi from the 90s. So far all he does is pace around nervously, do pushups, and think about Batman.

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— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM

Gotta get that protein

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— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 1:28 PM






It emerges that the trigger event for the abrupt closure of the El Paso airport was the US military shooting down the US Border Patrol’s drone. apnews.com/article/mili...

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) February 27, 2026 at 5:50 AM
(If this version is true)















a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

— sinéad (@transsexual.bsky.social) February 27, 2026 at 12:11 AM








The loved ones of Michel Ortega Casanova, one of the 4 men killed in a shootout with a Cuban gunboat, said he wished to overthrow the island's government. https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/tampa-man-killed-in-cuban-boat-shootout-wanted-to-overthrow-islands-government-loved-ones-say/

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— WFLA News Channel 8 (@wfla.com) February 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
("said his brother had fallen into an 'obsessive and diabolical' quest to overthrow the Cuban government")









("Dean Woodley Ball is a senior fellow at FAI. He most recently served as Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Strategic Advisor for AI at the National Science Foundation")



one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists" maxread.substack.com/p/what-anthr...

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— Max Read (@maxread.info) February 27, 2026 at 4:44 PM

Dying at the idea that the Pentagon gave Dario Amodei a hypo that was essentially the dril woke sniper tweet

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— ct (@cteeze-nuts.bsky.social) February 27, 2026 at 5:48 PM
























The US aims to process 4,500 refugee applications from white South Africans per month, far above President Trump's stated refugee program cap, and is installing trailers on embassy property in Pretoria to support the effort www.reuters.com/world/us-aim...

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— Ted Hesson (@tedhesson.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 12:11 PM








(That image is infinitely more interesting than the new teaser for the Backrooms movie, which I didn't finish watching. This too: “I’ve already given multiple commands to clear the room and get out of here, but no one’s moving,” an officer said, as the video panned to the silent cultish crew still standing in the basement.)























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Rewatched Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) recently, it’s still terrific... the only anachronistic moment for me was when it assumed the rich would be embarrassed to admit they owned a sex robot... we know today they’d be posting constantly about their sex robot, and their sex robot’s insights

— Matthewせいじ (@matthewseiji.com) February 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM








ok all other handheld console makers can go home none of you are going to come up with a better name than this

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— taizou (@taizou.12bit.club) February 18, 2026 at 9:53 AM








I find it incredibly reassuring when the town crier announces all is well at 3AM, when I am abed and at my most vulnerable

— Grobian Syboe (@grobiansyboe.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 2:25 AM








@schnauzercrew03 Throwback to sweet baby Ozzy learning stairs. #minischnauzer #PetsOfTikTok #cutedog #funnydogs #fails ♬ original sound - Kidz Tok




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