Annette

Compulsively entrepreneurish -
My heels are higher than your standards - Sisyphus is my copilot

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

Il buon misantropo non fa distinzione di sesso: l'uomo, nelle due versioni proposte dal Creatore, non gli piace.

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

#basedaf

[yeet @Awk20000]

Patreon CEO Jack Conte delivers a message to Bricks & Minifigs after they sent an official takedown request for Reckless Ben’s videos

“We have in fact unfortunately determined that Bricks & Minifigs can stuff it, we’re keeping Ben’s page up”

(Via JackConteExtras on YT)

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Tonight, the Russians struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and communities. The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital – at ordinary residential buildings, at schools; they burned down a food market, one of Kyiv’s oldest markets. The Russian strike effectively destroyed the Chornobyl Museum, damaged the National Art Museum and the building housing the office of Germany’s ARD. As of now, 69 people have been reported injured in the capital. Tragically, two people were killed in this senseless Russian attack. My condolences to everyone who has lost family members and loved ones.

I have already spoken with the President of France and the Prime Minister of Norway. There will be further communication with our partners today. I am grateful to everyone who is not staying silent about what Russia is doing. They are waging war solely against our people – against our memory, our history, and everything that makes up normal human life. It is important that Russia understands that they will be held accountable for all these crimes.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[banteg @banteg]

it’s here. the new half-life. the new breath of the wild. the new elden ring. the new sistine chapel ceiling. the new invention of fire.

historians will now divide games into two eras: before mixtape and after mixtape.

every game developer on earth just fell to their knees in a gamestop. kojima is deleting his notes. miyamoto is staring silently at a cassette player. gaben has delayed half-life 3 another decade out of respect.

i used to think games needed systems, mechanics, challenge, worlds, ideas. turns out all you need is licensed indie music, wistful teenagers, and 47 outlets simultaneously discovering nostalgia.

10/10. 10/10. 10/10. 10/10.
the medium is over. we found it. pack it up.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.

That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!

We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

@SimoneDagnini @marcosagusstinn @siceudc 🫶🏻

[Andrea Giuricin @AndreaGiuricin]

1150 miliardi di #spesa #pubblica.
Lo Stato italiano che intermedia il 60% dell’economia direttamente o indirettamente.
E c’è chi chiede nuove tasse.
E c’è chi chiede più Stato.
E c’è chi dice di spendere ancora di più.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

2 months later the creator of Nuclear Design Bureau is still waiting for the US government to confirm that his video game that uses Minecraft level physics simulations is not a threat to national security.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

🤭

[Aleksandar Brezar @brezaleksandar]

The best story you'll watch all week: apparently the Italian town of Punta Marina in Ravenna has been suffering from a peacock "invasion" and residents are not amused.

The editing alone is Primetime Emmy-worthy.

Sound on. You can thank me later. 😎

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

@EconXFin Il motivo vero lo sappiamo tutti.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher drags his woke guest out of his liberal bubble and tells him to his face he’s why Kamala Harris lost.

It all started when David Cross revealed his 9-year-old daughter has “trans friends.”

“Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?” Maher asked.

Cross replied: “Yep,” as if it’s completely normal and something society should embrace.

That’s when Maher dropped the hammer and told him straight up that no, somebody’s doing something to that little girl.

Cross immediately got defensive, but Maher refused to back down.

He told Cross that believing a 9-year-old girl is deciding to be trans on her own is exactly the kind of liberal insanity that lost Kamala Harris the election in 2024.

And if Democrats keep it up, JD Vance is going to win in 2028.

By the end of this exchange, Cross is left sitting there looking like a deer in headlights, like he’s never been challenged on “trans kids” in his life.

This is a moment worth watching, but if you’re somewhere you can’t play it, the transcript is below:

MAHER: “You need to be checked. People need to be checked… including your little girl.”

CROSS: “Fck that btch. (joking) Fck that little btch with her black friends and trans friends and not even understanding.”

MAHER: “Trans?! Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?”

CROSS: “Yep.”

MAHER: “They know they’re trans in third grade?”

CROSS: “Just the coolest kid.”

MAHER: “[Is kid transitioning from] girl to boy?”

CROSS: “Girl to boy. And she has another very close friend who’s not in the school, but who’s boy to girl at three years old.”

MAHER: “A woman said [to me] ‘I was what they called a tomboy. If I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that’s what they would have done to me.’”

CROSS: “Well, nobody’s doing this to her.”

MAHER: “Well, I don’t know.”

CROSS: “Literally nobody is doing this to her.”

MAHER: “How old?”

CROSS: “She is — or HE is — either eight or I think nine.”

MAHER: “Okay, then somebody is doing something because eight or nine-year-olds can’t do anything on their own.”

CROSS: “No, they’re buying them boys' clothes.”

MAHER: “Well then, they’re doing something.”

CROSS: “Sure. Yes, you’re right. They’re buying them boys' clothes.”

MAHER: “And telling them you’re a boy now.”

CROSS: “No, no, they’re not telling them. They’re just agreeing with [them].”

MAHER: “Agreeing with an 8-year-old. Because when has their judgment ever been off at 8?”

CROSS: “You know you knew you weren’t gay, right?”

MAHER: “Yeah, that’s different.”

CROSS: “It’s not different.”

MAHER: “It is different. Good luck with President Vance. Because, as I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost and this is a case of that.”

CROSS: “Wait, what?”

MAHER: “We voted for the same person…”

CROSS: “Right.”

MAHER: “You’re just why she lost. Because America hears this, and they’re going to go, ‘Bill’s right. Eight-year-olds can’t really make decisions on their own like this.’ That’s what most people are going to say.”

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

@AndreaMagagni @dottorpax @lucianocapone @CarloStagnaro Ambito: Turismo, spesi finora ~820 Mln €, previsti 2.2 Mld €.

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

@AndreaMagagni @dottorpax @lucianocapone @CarloStagnaro Partirei da qui: https://t.co/zqzkHZzdDF

[Andrea Giuricin @AndreaGiuricin]

Abbiamo superato la Grecia per il debito pubblico (in % sul PIL).
E abbiamo una spesa pubblica da 1100 miliardi di euro.
Nessuno taglia niente, si mettono bonus e incentivi (che costano) e nuove tasse.
Dove vogliamo andare a finire?

[NASA @NASA]

“You can see the surface of the Moon…we just went sci-fi.”

On flight day seven, images from our @NASAArtemis II crew amazed, turning science fiction to reality. From the lunar far side to a solar eclipse from the Moon, the views are EVERYTHING. No pressure to pick a favorite.

[Zack @Asmongold]

Banned for an entire week because I said I don't give a fuck about the opinions of illiterate third worlders.

Would someone be banned for saying they don't care about what an American's opinion is on the Middle East?

Of course not

Blatant double standard, I didn't break ToS

[Annette @thatsAnnette]

Ma... che #imbarazzo
#nonfamancopiuridere

[NikTek @NikTek]

The craziest thing ever happened on YouTube.

La7, an Italian television channel has used footage from Nvidia DLSS 5 Trailer and then sent a copyright strike to every YouTube video that supposedly used “their footage”, including Nvidia themselves.

Nvidia’s own DLSS 5 announcement video has now been taken down by La7 as you can see here.

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

A truck carrying antiprotons will drive across Europe. A team at CERN just transported antimatter across the laboratory's campus in a truck. Literally. 92 antiprotons packed into a portable trap weighing one tonne. As everyone knows, antimatter annihilates on contact with ordinary matter - which is basically everything. The final destination is Germany: Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. An extraordinary delivery in the history of road transport. https://t.co/3Gb1HCHszA

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth states that the Strait of Hormuz is “open for transit” and the only thing preventing that is continued drone and missile attacks by Iran.