Kelly Cash

he/him

[scotty @plathiandc]

remote voting for thee but not for me?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: US cities are chasing millions of dollars owed to them from FIFA after hosting World Cup games, per NYT

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Joe Biden had a bad debate. Approximately 765 stories and opinion pieces in the NYTimes.

Donald Trump had 300 bank accounts closed because of evidence of money laundering. Nothing to see here, says the same NYTimes.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The plane crash sparked a wildfire that burned over 31,000 acres and took nearly a full month to contain.

Officials had to spend $39 million to control the blaze.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital.

Joe Biden was the second.

[Bryce Greene @TheGreeneBJ]

Holy shit... Wired reports that back in May, the U.S. Military was testing an experimental GPS jammer and and caused a civilian plane to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger has passed away at age 83.

Reports show that she was in an assisted living facility during the final months of her time in office.

[Frasier Payne @MeinGottNiles]

Unrelated but this guy made his money buying up all the innovative 90s educational software companies (creators of Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, et al), completely gutting them, and then selling their husks to Mattel.
He singlehandedly destroyed that sector.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Did you know Uber built software specifically designed to deceive government regulators.

It was called Greyball.

When Uber launched in a new city, often illegally, before regulators approved it, local authorities would send undercover investigators to request rides and document that Uber was breaking the law.

Uber knew this. So they built a system to identify those investigators and show them a fake version of the app.

When a greyballed user opened Uber, they saw ghost cars. fake drivers circling their location. they'd request a ride. it would get canceled. again and again. they'd give up. their investigation would fail.

how did Uber identify regulators:

— credit card data. government-issued cards triggered flags.

— social media profiles. employees manually searched for possible law enforcement.

— device fingerprinting. Uber sent employees to electronics stores to collect device IDs from cheaper phones more likely to be purchased by investigators on government budgets.

— geofencing. accounts that repeatedly opened the app near government buildings got flagged.

it ran in cities across the US, Australia, South Korea, China, Italy, France, and more.

the New York Times exposed it in March 2017. the DOJ launched a criminal investigation. A federal grand jury issued subpoenas.

Uber's initial response: "this program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service."

Regulators investigating whether you're breaking the law are not violating your terms of service.

Uber eventually shut it down.

paid no criminal penalties.

The CEO who authorized it, Travis Kalanick, resigned over unrelated scandals.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Sam @Dollarydoos_]

A very Nolan storytelling and thematic touch is the motif of Odysseus plucking the bow string to make it a "fair fight" but there is exactly one time he uses his bow without doing it, and it's the assault on Troy.

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

Odysseus slaughtering the suitors

[Kelly Cash @KellyCash25]

Caveman Jake Gyllenhall

[sam. @suddenxfear]

achilles and patroclus from the silent film helena (1924)

[Casper @CasperOnChain]

Christopher Nolan says there are only six lightweight IMAX cameras in the world and he has destroyed more than one

“There are two new ones for this film. So now there are six of the lightweight ones around the world. There’s enough for multiple productions”

Tom Holland: “Do you think there are cameras that you used on The Dark Knight that we used on this movie? These hidden characters that have gone through your career”

Nolan: “They’re all old friends. Every now and again, we would destroy an IMAX camera, and it would be very heartbreaking. But I’ve always managed to build it back together”

“On The Dark Knight, we crushed one between a truck and a car. It was on a crane arm. There wasn’t a camera operator. We smashed it, but they actually managed to fix it and save the film”

“Then on Dunkirk, we strapped one to the side of a crashing Spitfire, housed in an underwater housing. The Spitfire landed, but then the thing sank immediately, which no one was expecting”

“It took a couple of hours to get the camera out. By then, it was completely waterlogged. We called the lab in LA and said, ‘Is there anything you could do with the film?’”

“They said, ‘Fill the film cans with water, keep them sealed and send them to us in water.’ They put it through the bath, processed it, and the shot is in the film”

“Try doing that with a digital camera”

[Bruno Carvalho @ligadoemserie]

Sinopse de A Odisseia:

"Jason Bourne perdeu-se no mar por anos. Sua esposa, Mulher-Gato, encontra-se desolada e está sendo cobiçada pelo Batman. O filho de Bourne, Homem-Aranha, foi procurar o pai com a ajuda do Justiceiro".

[cheyenne🆗️ @evilvillain1231]

Completed an application for Pizza Hut via chatbot. bot gleefully told me I was wanted for an in-person interview and let me schedule a time, complete with text reminders. I went in today and an employee told me the manager wasn't there & they probably weren't actually hiring

[Allegro ♪ @Allegro_spl]

My dad threw my ds out a 2nd story window as a kid, completely destroying it, bc I wasn’t getting ready fast enough

I didn’t learn to be more time efficient from it, I just cried a lot and got really uneasy whenever he picked up my things after that.

Don’t do this to your kids.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

As a convicted felon, Trump can’t legally accept this firearm.

Ironically this is the same statute Hunter Biden was convicted of violating.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

An illegal betrayal of information so secret that Congress wrote into the law that it cannot be shared; the Trump admin is going to get people tortured.