The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing. “Tom McDermott, with the metal detector manufacturer CEIA USA, says schools used to be a small fraction of their U.S. business. Now they’re the majority. ‘It’s not right. We need to solve this problem. It’s good for business, but we don’t need to be selling to schools,’ McDermott says. Sarah McNeeley, a sales manager with SAM Medical, is selling trauma kits, which include tourniquets, clotting agents and chest seals. She says their customers are traditionally EMTs, fire departments and military medics, but increasingly, school districts.”
AI psychosis and the warped mirror. Cory Doctorow: “While the internet makes it far easier to find a toxic community of similarly afflicted people struggling with your mental illness, an LLM eliminates the need to find that forum. The LLM can deliver all the reinforcement you demand, produced to order, at any hour, day or night. While posting about a new delusional belief to a forum won’t generate responses until other forum members see it and reply to it, an LLM can deliver a response in seconds.”
Netscape Navigator was released 30 years ago.. By Jamie Zawinski, one of the first Netscape employees.
UPDATED: My initial version of this post said 20 years, and I was sure that’s what the original said.
Read Whatever the Hell You Want charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/read-wh…
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You’re not going to believe the number of headphones I think you should have jasper.tandy.is/blogging/…
I admire the spirit of this article, though I stop at one headphones, the AirPods Pro 2. I am tempted by the AirPods Pro 3 but so far am not having trouble resisting.
Construction workers in Iowa rushed into a burning house to save a family, and used a backyard trampoline to save a boy trapped on the burning third floor. wsvn.com/news/us-w…
If Trump is concerned that 97% of the coverage about him is negative, maybe he should try doing something right more than 3% of the time.
Because if 3% of the news coverage of Trump is positive, they’re going easy on him.
Ocasio-Cortez Statement on Charlie Kirk Resolution and Trump Administration’s Assault on Free Speech ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/pre…
Petulant sexual predator and convicted felon Donald Trump “reiterated his claim that critical television coverage of him is ‘illegal’ and pushed back on criticisms that his administration was taking actions that chill free speech. ‘When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,'” the orange manbaby said. www.politico.com/news/2025…
It’s so embarrassing being an American now.
Republican Ted Cruz says FCC chair’s threats about Kimmel are ‘dangerous.’ “That’s right out of ‘Goodfellas.’" www.seattletimes.com/nation-wo…