We didn’t want to be right. When we posited De-evolution as a stance, a pose, a manifesto, we thought it was ridiculous — but in a cool way. It isn’t any more ridiculous than the version of reality we’re fed by priests, policemen, teachers; more believable than the Bible. #DEVO

POV: You started a towel war with the cleaner at your hotel [📹evinmaz]

Meet Jack, the little dog with wheels and a huge personality! Every time he flips over, he calls for “road assistance” (his mom 😅), gets back on track, and zooms off like nothing happened.His body may be different, but his spirit is unstoppable.🐾💨

Elon vowed to cure world hunger if the World Food Program could outline a plan to do so for 6 billion. They did, and Elon did absolutely nothing, and has become the world's first trillionaire. This man also systematically dismantled the US' foreign aid programs after this time. So not only did he not fulfil his promise, he actually deprived millions more of food, emergency healthcare and other life saving supports. With less than .5% of his net worth he could save 10s of millions, real human lives. He spends his days shitposting on Twitter and he was even stupid enough to tank his companies in valuation by literal 100s of billions just to call some guy a pedo, and people applaud him. We shouldn't live in a world where millions die of hunger while others have more money than most countries. Humans have their priorities screwed up.

How are we supposed to give a flying fuck that Elon is a trillionaire when the guy literally used his power to END programs that fed the poorest people on Earth? Fuck that selfish asshole, and fuck his trillion dollars helping nobody but his damn self.

CNN aired a montage of Trump’s past claims that the U.S. was on the cusp of a deal with Iran, with Anderson Cooper noting that today’s announcement marks the 39th time he’s made a similar claim.

When billionaires own the platforms, the satellites, the payment rails, the AI models, and the political megaphones, that is not a free market. That is the private government of the oligarchs.

never just pieces on a board the toll is terrible

For two days, his owners believed he had gone missing because he never came home. In reality, he was staying on the hills to guard a sheep that had just given birth. If loyalty could be captured in one image, it would probably look exactly like this dog. 🐕🐑⛰️

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Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann completely losing it during Melissa McCarthy’s improvised two-minute rant in a THIS IS 40 (2012) outtake remains endlessly rewatchable. Watching them fight to keep a straight face only makes it funnier.

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl. Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather. Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a country girl chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests finding her own food. Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages helping Allied bombers find German targets. After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace.

Dennis Ritchie invented C in 1972, co-built Unix in 1969, and his code is running inside every device you are reading this on right now and the colleague who announced his death had to do it through a Google post because no journalist thought to check. He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey for 44 years. He never gave a keynote. He never ran a company. He never appeared on a magazine cover. He just wrote code that became the invisible foundation everything else is built on. Here is what he actually built, and why it matters more than almost anything that happened in tech. In 1969, Bell Labs had just walked away from one of the most ambitious computing projects in history. The Multics project, a joint effort between MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, had collapsed under its own weight. Too complex. Too expensive. Too slow. Bell Labs pulled out. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie refused to let the ideas die. Working in a small office in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix in three weeks during the summer of 1969. One week for the file system. One week for the process management. One week for the command shell. Ritchie was working alongside him, and when the system needed a language that could express what they were building, he built one. In 1972 he completed C. C was not just another programming language. It was a different philosophy about what a programming language should be. Before C, most systems code was written in assembly, which meant every program was tied to the specific hardware it ran on. You could not move code between machines. You rewrote it from scratch every time. C changed that. It sat close enough to the hardware to be fast, but abstract enough to run on anything. When Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C in 1973, it became the first operating system that could be picked up and moved to a completely different machine without starting over. Portability was a new idea. Ritchie made it real. The branching that followed is almost impossible to overstate. Unix spread from Bell Labs to universities. At Berkeley, it became BSD. BSD became the foundation of macOS and iOS. Unix influenced Linus Torvalds, who built Linux in 1991. Linux now runs every Android phone, every major web server, every supercomputer on the Top500 list, and the overwhelming majority of cloud infrastructure at AWS, Google, and Microsoft. C became the parent language of C , Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. Rob Pike, who worked across the hall from Ritchie at Bell Labs for 20 years, said it plainly: "The browsers are written in C. The Unix kernel that the entire internet runs on is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C , which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C." Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. He won the National Medal of Technology in 1998, presented by President Clinton. He was head of System Software Research at Bell Labs for decades. He answered emails from strangers with technical questions until the end of his life. His home address stayed listed in the phone book. His colleague Brian Kernighan, who co-authored the definitive C textbook with him, said Ritchie was a private person who did no self-salesmanship. That was not false modesty. It was just who he was. He died on October 12, 2011, at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He was 70. He had been ill for some time. The world did not notice until Rob Pike posted a quiet announcement on Google , and the news spread through the programming community in hushed tones. No front pages. No tributes from heads of state. No candlelight vigils outside corporate campuses. The device you are reading this on runs code that traces directly back to what he built. So does the server that delivered it to you. So does the browser or app you opened to get here. Most people will never know his name. The ones who built everything you use every day do.

Just 20 seconds of a new momma loving her 2-week-old baby boy. Awww she is so in love with her baby 🥹 ❤️

Good Wombat Wednesday morning my friends. 🦛 ❤️

More details are emerging regarding the high-ranking Russian military official who was blown up in his car this morning. His name still hasn't been disclosed which indicates that he might have indeed been a very influential person. Unconfirmed reports are appearing that it may have been a Russian general Lapin, commander of the North group of the Russian troops. Among his many war crimes, Lapin ordered a strike on a large department store in Kharkiv in May of 2024 that killed 19 Ukrainian civilians. This information hasn't been confirmed. A taxi driver was waiting nearby and witnessed the explosion. He said the car drove about 50 meters from its parking spot before the blast. The taxi driver says he pulled the man out from the car alive but he died about five minutes later. Source: ASTRA

Good thing y’all didn’t elect an emotional woman. 😂

Rob Reiner auditioned many big names for Misery (1990) before casting Kathy Bates, then a relatively unknown theater actress. Stephen King called her performance “perfect,” & she became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress in a King adaptation.

Coming soon. Playing with Knives. No brushes, only palette knives. Let’s see where it takes us. #art #abstractart

Sirga was just 10 days old when I found her - abandoned, barely alive. Today she's a full-grown lioness living her best life in the Kalahari. And she still chooses to lie down next to me like this.

If you think California is taking a long time to count votes... wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein Files