“i have been unfairly maligned for years for being the lectern guy” -the lectern guy
I spoke to public radio's The World about Eurovision boycotts and why Israel uses Eurovision for propaganda.
I unironically love this because it's the perfect analogy:
- you can only get 6 wild cards by cheating
- showing everybody your hand is the worst possible strategy
- it actually takes zero skill or strategy to play a wild card and you still managed to fuck it up
- this hand can absolutely be beaten by using Skip cards, reverse cards, +2 cards, and +4 cards
- and "having all the cards" in uno means you're fucking losing anyway
> Today Amnesty International Ireland and Human Rights First published their joint letter to the Irish Ministers for Transport and Foreign Affairs and Trade urging an end to the U.S. administration’s use of Shannon Airport as a refuelling stopover for unlawful removal flights by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
https://www.amnesty.ie/stop_unlawful_ice_removal_flights_through_shannon_airport/
3233. Make It Myself
title text: It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3233
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3233
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3233
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"Days of arguing about exploitability can save minutes of fixing the bug."
-- Socrates, on vulnerability disclosure
In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre
— Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States
— and delivered a lecture.
“America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy -- the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.
Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place
— and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
did you know? the google forms share icon has a stray pixel in its corner
why? because the icon spritesheet has a massive black triangle overlapping the icons
what is that triangle? it's a giant out-of-bounds hat!
"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."
How annoyed are judges about getting filings with hallucinated citations? They are using ChatGPT to write limericks mocking the filers 🤖😵
https://flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/download/2486572/opinion/Opinion_2025-0843.pdf
Here’s one of my more reflective poems, written while waiting for a train at a provincial railway station.
WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
