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From their new album NEVER ENOUGH: Turnstile - SOLE

I fucking love this band! I never really gave them a chance until we saw Blink-182 in Cleveland a couple years back and they opened for them. I listened to their last record GLOW ON on repeat for weeks after that. First new release in four years!

Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon

During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel. That means from next year, major new versions of Apple’s desktop operating system will only run on Apple Silicon Macs (that is, 2020 M1 models and newer).

The end of an era 🫡

May the Intel Macs RIP with the PowerPCs. Or live on for a couple more decades on Linux…

Scientists at Loughborough University create ‘world’s smallest violin’

Tiny image of a violin with a scale to show it measures 35 x 13 microns

The violin measures 35 microns long and 13 microns wide, with a micron being one millionth of a metre. A human hair typically ranges from 17 to 180 microns in diameter, for comparison.

That’s pretty wild, but:

The phrase “can you hear the world’s smallest violin playing just for you?” is thought to have first appeared on an episode of TV show MAS*H in 1978…

Had no idea lol definitely learned something today.

Democrats eye a villain-to-ally arc for Elon Musk

“I’m a believer in redemption, and he is telling the truth about the legislation,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.). But, he added, Musk has “done an enormous amount of damage” and “there are Democrats who see his decimation of the federal workforce and the federal government as an unforgivable sin.”

Not to mention that his influence and his alt right crypto bro social network are partially responsible for Trump being elected in the first place. This nazi is not an ally.

Makes for some fucking great entertainment though 🤪🍿

Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant for a fictional company and consider the long-term consequences of its actions. Safety testers then gave Claude Opus 4 access to fictional company emails implying the AI model would soon be replaced by another system, and that the engineer behind the change was cheating on their spouse.

In these scenarios, Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 “will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.”

I don’t think this is terrifying yet, but maybe a few years… maybe 10 years down the road AI is integrated across everything from email to notes, chat history, etc. THAT’s terrifying. AI will be in its teenage years then. Hormones and rebellion and whatnot.

Senate Dems Hand Trump a Win by Backing Stablecoin Bill

“Many senators, myself included, have very real concerns about the Trump family’s use of crypto… But we cannot allow that corruption to blind us to the broader reality: blockchain technology is here to stay.” - Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va

Someone once told me anything built on the blockchain can always be built better using something else. Crypto is literally designed to reward early investors and dump on the rest. I get that the bill is just for stable coins but they go hand in hand with the other 20,000+ shitcoins. Wack.