the wicked witch of the east

he/him
hold me close
don't hold your breath

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Coincidence, probably.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The FDA has announced a recall on granola sold nationwide over potential salmonella contamination.

[JtheFrog @JtheFrog0]

Context: steam refunded a users BF6 game, after EA removed all the game modes he liked and were the reason he bought the game.

The "dangerous precedent" is holding companies accountable for fucking their fans without consent.

[Dvd𖤓 @ov04l]

Promised to get my niece a phone when she turns 10 five years ago and her birthday is 2 days from now

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Gen Z be like “Buy me a house or I’ll vote for Stalin no cap.”

[Beardo Benjo @BeardoBenjoYT]

Watch this. I guarantee you'll go "oh that's cool" at first and then very quickly you'll be going "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK"

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports:

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

UPDATE—Women who leaked video of abuses in ICE detention were immediately locked in solitary confinement as retaliation.

"They're threatening us... They're hitting us," women said.

"We fear for her safety... They're killing us, but we have our voice."

"Please help us!"

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 The Trump Administration has now cut $600 million in funding for critical HIV & STD prevention programs.

Experts say sexually transmitted diseases will now become far more common in the United States as a result.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.

[We$t @flygodT]

Like dawg look at how this man was moving when he was young, super fake😭

[ᴛʀᴀᴄᴇʀ @DeFiTracer]

SPACEX VALUATION: $2.4 TRILLION
AMAZON VALUATION: $2.4 TRILLION

SPACEX REVENUE: $18.7 BILLION
AMAZON REVENUE: $742.77 BILLION

[𝓜𝓪𝓽𝓽 ✈️ @mldiffley]

Inconveniencing fans because a rapist pedophile war criminal who hasn’t been to an NBA game this century wants to be the center of attention

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇨🇺 Cuba officially files to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice.

[Hernandy D. Uzumaki @hernandy_s]

The concept of spoiling a book older than the Bible

[RidgeRunner 🇺🇸 @UsaRidge]

Two hundred years ago, a squirrel might've traveled for dozens of miles through Tennessee's forests without ever touching the ground.

Folk lore even claimed a squirrel could travel from the Atlantic to the Mississippi without touching the dirt floor.

Among those forests stood the American chestnut, growing up to 100 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 5-10 feet.

It was one of the most common and important trees in the eastern United States—feeding wildlife, feeding people, and shaping entire ecosystems.

Then a fungal blight arrived.

Within a few decades, somewhere between 3-4 billion trees were gone.

Today, most people in Tennessee couldn't recognize a mature American chestnut in a photo.

That's a remarkable thing when you consider how common the tree once was.

The lesson is simple:

The American chestnut reminds us that stewardship must begin long before something becomes rare.

[cel²⁸ 🐝 @piastrihearts]

5 minute showers and paper straws guys!

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.