The people who use “plummet” to describe a 1% drop.

They’re pushing to be employees instead of independent contractors, which may be relatable for gig workers:

That’s why Montreal sex worker Adore Goldman is organizing another strike, this time in the midst of F1 weekend — one of the busiest times of the year for the city’s clubs — to demand greater labour protections and push for the decriminalization of sex work.

She says strippers’ employment status as independent contractors, which is now an industry-wide norm, has for too long shielded club owners from ensuring safe working conditions.

“Being recognized as an employee, your employers have to guarantee your safety and … your mental health at work,” she said. “Like sexual violence that happened in the clubs in the past, if we were employees, the person could get compensated if it was a work accident because it is a work accident.”

The nine-person jury found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.

Why did there even need to be a trial? Couldn’t the statue of limitations have been applied before it got that far?

When I was in the market for one a few years ago, an internal drive and a USB enclosure was a safer bet for making backups than a USB drive. It’s usually not too hard to find out the recommended drives for the backup software.

Both NPR and the New York Times did the legwork to find that Duffy’s reality show isn’t funded by public money—it’s being underwritten by a nonprofit chartered in 2025 called, you guessed it, The Great American Road Trip Inc. Who are its sponsors? A ton of corporations subject to Duffy’s regulations, like Toyota, United Airlines, and Boeing. (A Toyota logo is given a conspicuous glamour shot in the trailer, something I clocked immediately.) Oh, also, the person behind the nonprofit is Tori Barnes, who previously lobbied for General Motors and the U.S. Travel Association, the latter of which is an organization that lobbies Duffy’s own department on behalf of the tourism industry.

So, basically, a recently created nonprofit—bankrolled by a laundry list of corporate interests—has facilitated a reality show that doubles as a cross-country pleasure trip for a high-powered Trump Cabinet member and his family. When the Times asked Barnes about the naked potential for graft in this arrangement, she pointed to a memorandum signed by the Department of Transportation and The Great American Road Trip Inc. that reads, in part, that the nonprofit won’t be compensated with “any favorable consideration for any future federal financial assistance, action, contract, or other financial award” by the federal government. But as the paper points out, there is no language in the memorandum extending that agreement to any of the companies sponsoring the organization. (A few more, while we’re at it: Shell, Chase Travel, Yellowstone Vacations, and, tellingly, Royal Caribbean Group.)

Basically it’s just one more avenue for paying bribes.

Other countries looked at what the mess in Iran did to fossil fuel prices and decided to accelerate their move away from them. But not Canada, where fossil fuel extraction is a higher priority than clean air and a livable environment. Ugh.

If the US had a federally controlled payment processor they’d just end up with Republicans trying to limit what it could be used for. No porn, no abortions, etc.

It probably wasn’t that many takes, he’d had plenty of practice delivering technobabble by that point.

You left out one important piece of the Timeless Child plotline: Time Lords were supposed to have a limited number of regenerations, and the writers kept having to find excuses for the Doctor to go past the limit, but the Timeless Child plotline made it so the Time Lords have the limit because they got the regeneration ability from the Doctor, while the Doctor has the ability naturally and has no limit on regenerations. Makes it much easier to keep changing actors, which was probably the point of the whole thing.

The article mostly focuses on the effectiveness of US weapons in the war, but the war has also shown that when the US gets low on munitions, it’s “America first”, with allies being left to wait:

Estonia’s Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur on Monday said the U.S. has paused Estonia’s deliveries until the end of the war in Iran, at least. If the conflict lasts for a long time, Estonia may start to reconsider its previous decisions about weapons purchases, he added.

There’s also a description in real units:

All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy in the form of waste heat.

“Blood-borne diseases” would make more sense, given that you’re talking about blood and not sex.

A Trump company losing lots of money makes a good headline, but this is mostly because crypto is down, not because they’re spending more than they’re making:

TMTG is also active in financial services, and the company announced US$2.5 billion in funding a year ago to invest in cryptocurrencies, one of Trump’s recent passions.

But the plunge in digital currencies hit this part of the business hard as the price of Bitcoin tumbled from over US$126,000 in early October to below US$70,000 in March.

It has since rebounded somewhat to over US$80,000.

Because the company is required to reveal the value of its investments, even if it hasn’t sold them, it recorded a loss of US$406 million for the first quarter.

“The vast bulk” of the loss was due to digital assets, the company stated.

Technically you’re right, but with the court having skewed the system to favour Republicans so much, it will be very difficult to get more people on to the Surpreme Court who want to overrule this one’s decisions.

For those who really like the idea of blocking the sites on that list, the linked github repo also has it formatted for pihole and the like.

No, it’s still on them.

The voters who initially challenged Louisiana’s map asked the justices last week to speed up the usual 32-day period between when a ruling is announced and when the Supreme Court clerk formally passes the decision down to a lower court. They wrote that “time is … of the essence” with this year’s elections approaching quickly, and said the issue needs to be returned to the district court so it can “oversee an orderly process” to fix Louisiana’s maps.

On Monday, the high court granted that request, writing that the court’s typical 32-day wait period is “subject to adjustment” by the justices.

The court broke with the normal timeline to let Louisiana hurry up and do its thing. When, again, December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas’s unconstitutional map.

The Republican justices thought December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas’s gerrymandering that favored white poeple/Republicans, but somehow last week wasn’t too close to the election to shoot down Louisiana’s changes that boosted minorities. That’s pretty clearly policy at work, not the law.

Hasn’t their AI search always included “expert” advice from Reddit, like eating rocks, and putting glue on pizza?

71% have stopped buying physical music, and 70% no longer by hard copies of TV shows and movies.

I’m going to guess that a large chunk of Gen Z never started buying physical media in the first place.

There doesn’t seem to be a paywall on the source the article links to. From there:

Nearly half (47%) of U.S. residents oppose the construction of an artificial intelligence data center in their neighborhood, while 38% support it.

That seems to leave 15% “no opinion”.

Gen Zers (48%) and millennials (50%) are more likely than Gen Xers (38%) and baby boomers (22%) to support data centers in their backyard.

Broken down by political preference, roughly half (49%) of Republicans support the construction of an AI data center in their neighborhood, compared with 36% of Democrats.