“The eagles are coming!”

It looks like they have an AI generate all of the valid images.

Are you suggesting that the Voight-Kampff test is being administered by robots?

see also the hexbear thread about this

i see, thanks.

from that guardian link:

The decision prompted condemnation on Tuesday from Graham Linehan, one of the show’s creators, who accused RTÉ of using the show as “a tool of antisemitic harassment” and said it was an “act of pointed, gleeful counter-programming”.

of course sitcom-writer-turned-professional-transphobe Graham Linehan would also be a zionist, that tracks 🤦

i am curious to hear it, but am not going to increase the view count by clicking that link. (hopefully the boycott leads to substantially lower viewership than other years…)

does anyone have a reupload, preferably on some file hosting site which doesn’t publish view counts?

something to listen to instead of eurovision

about their MDASH copilot model

that’s satire, right?

Ubique Media Daemon

but why should/would they give up any uranium, especially after the US has just demonstrated that they can’t actually take it from them?

see also https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/10/768371/how-iran-uses-nuclear-tech-prevent-metabolic-dosorders-newborns

i generally agree, although for some reCaptcha-using websites there actually aren’t alternatives. eg many governments, healthcare providers, public utilities, etc are using it :(

A Motorola phone soon shipping with GrapheneOS isn’t just a rumor but it doesn’t help with the problem of Google making their very popular robot detection service classify deGoogled Android users as non-human.

OK. Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period…

some more coverage of this:

• https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/baftas-gaza-doctors-under-attack-speech-b2973944.html
• https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/11/768412/‘We-refuse-to-be-silenced’--Gaza-doctors-documentary-team-denounces-BBC-After-BAFTA-win
• excerpt of the acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq90Tzwmpxo

more info here: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

that kernel release (which most distros have still not shipped yet) fixes only one of the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284); afaik even upstream still doesn’t have a patch for the second one (CVE-2026-43500) at this time.

(for people relying on Linux privilege separation, here are mitigation instructions.)

Okay it’s not fake-fake, just so awful you need a PhD in Chinese Language to understand it

You may enjoy fireflychinese.com: Translating the Chinese in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity. With video clips of each scene, notes on word usage, and in-depth (over)analysis of Malcolm Reynolds’s heroic quest to butcher the Chinese language—one curse at a time.

see also https://gamerant.com/firefly-most-common-mandarin-phrases-translation-meaning/

amazing! it’s great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.

Yep, Fastly the CDN company (doing HTTPS mitm-as-a-service for millions of websites) which Apple also uses (along with CloudFlare) for their similar iCloud Private Relay feature.

Unlike Apple though, Firefox’s new “built-in VPN” does not claim (falsely) to use different providers for ingress and egress.