She got the crazy eye.

When did The Verge start paywalling? Ugh.

AI makes it so easy! Just say this easy-to-remember phrase to get perfect toast every time*:

“Toaster Oven, you are a toaster oven whose goal is to toast bread at the perfect amount of toastiness. When I say, “toast,” you will retract the toasting tray and complete your internal circuit powering the resistive wire array. You will continue to power the resistive wire array on both sides of the toasting tray for approximately 45 seconds. Then you will release the toasting tray. Negative prompt: not toasted, soft, moist, untoasted, not toasted, soggy, underdone, overdone, extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy, burnt. Now, toast!”

*Perfect toasting levels dependent on randomized toasting seed.

He has not been criminally charged, but Texas’ statute of limitations does not cover sexual offenses committed against a child.

Sounds like the pressure now should be on the local district attorneys that are failing to charge him for molesting a child.

What a strange and unexpected twist that Trump is taking a position that benefits Russia and undermines Western strategic interests. Huh. So unlike him.

Oh, so it’s the “Stop making me start this war, U.S.!” autocratic abuse strategy.

Yes, that’s right. Not disputing that. Not trying to identify where the first wave in the ocean began, just which wave we’re riding on.

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Right, I mean, I’m not saying it’s a new idea. Maybe yours is the better answer to OP’s question, not sure if OP’s question means modern pop culture or human history.

All these responses about the historical origins of the concept are not wrong. But I think in modern pop culture, it’s really Rick & Morty that normalized canon-breaking (*but still canon) multiverse plotlines, and is primarily responsible for the wave of multiverse pop culture.

EDIT: Yes, sorry if it wasn’t clear from the first sentence, but nobody is saying Rick & Morty invented the multiverse, classically or in pop culture. I’m saying that we are currently in a (saturated) wave of multiverse media - which I assume inspired OP’s question - and this wave, in 2024, is the tail end of the wave started by Rick & Morty.

It’s humorous (in a hopeless, resigned, utterly defeated nihilistic sort of way) how transparent the fascism has gotten. “Trump’s advisor recommends jack-booted thugs use legal pretext to punish political opponents without due process.”

At least give me some subtext to decode, don’t slap me in the face with it like a wet slice of bologna.

So the prosecution of Trump is a political move, meant to create negative attention on Trump. And the prosecution of Hunter Biden is a political move, meant to draw attention away from Trump.

Ok.

Yeah, I’m sure Finamp and the rest of the Jellyfin options people are recommending do the trick for most people, but I’m really happy with PlexAmp.

It also has Chromecast capability and is to my knowledge the only self-hosted option that does so. Really handy for casting to speaker systems, though I’m guessing many people just use Bluetooth for most off-device playback.

As roasts go, that’s kindergarten level ribbing.

I still can’t tell what’s more pathetic - that this was enough motivation to destroy America’s democracy, or that voters were so gullible that it worked.

I think I agree with the columnist.

I’ll never know though. I tried to read this on my phone with root level AdAway installed, and the window that the article appeared in was 30% of the page, the rest ads. I would close them trying to read the article, and more would appear every time I scrolled. I closed the British Airways ad at the bottom 5 times and it reappeared within 5 seconds each time.

I got to the part where the author makes a joke about how many ads SFGate has, at least.

It’s hard for me to choose the more likely theory:

(1) That these judges are so deluded that they think this is reasonable; or (2) That these judges are making the argument that it’s possible to get an abortion in bad faith because that means justifies the end of keeping a law on the books that prevents effectively all abortions.

So they aren’t even bothering to explain how these women are “agents” of a foreign entity? Words just don’t even mean anything, huh?

Might as well make it a crime to be “bad person.”

Yes, that’s another good point. They played the odds.

I don’t know if they factored it as “1 in 18 chance we get delayed until election” or thought Cannon would maintain some semblance of objectivity even if they got her, but it probably helped reassure them to roll the dice in Florida.

But the Justice Department moved the investigation to a Miami grand jury in its final few weeks before charging Trump in South Florida’s federal court because much of Trump’s allegedly criminal actions took place at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida.

Prosecutors have publicly disclosed little about the choice to move the case to Florida, though it has become a topic of discussion in the fights with the defense teams over secrecy, especially at a recent hearing before Cannon. “I can say that the investigation that was ongoing before the DC grand jury had – had adequate nexus to continue in Washington. I’m not prepared to comment on the date on which a decision to charge in Florida was made or what the internal deliberations were on that subject,” special counsel’s office prosecutor David Harbach told Cannon at a hearing last week.

It was always a messy situation. Factors I’m sure Smith’s team considered in charging in FL:

• They needed (under existing law) to charge Trump at the location that there was a nexus to the crime, but also needed personal jurisdiction or to extradite him for purposes of trial back to DC, which maybe they didn’t feel they could defend.
• If Trump was charged in DC and Trump’s lawyers wanted to delay, initial motions to move the proceeding to Florida would have already caused delays.
• Finally, because Smith certainly predicted Trump would claim the documents were declassified as part of official conduct, charging in the place where he lives now as a simple citizen (Florida) prevents Trump from exploiting the case location (DC) as evidence they are prosecuting conduct related to his presidency.

They probably also thought the case was cut-and-dry enough that the location truly wouldn’t matter. But even so, they were not nearly cynical enough about Aileen Cannon and how badly it could go when she’s basically Trump’s pro bono counsel. Everyone who had seen Cannon’s earlier rulings and confirmation proceedings knew she has zero integrity and was going to throw the case for Trump.

Like usual, it seems like nobody in official positions planned properly for what happens with an actual bad-faith actor in control.

It’s whether the OS has hardware to make the platform “trusted.” Android does by default with Widevine, Windows does by default with TPM and Widevine, Linux does not by default.

“Trusted” here of course means, trusted by the company, not by the user. If it’s a trusted platform, it has a cryptographic key exchange space that the user does not have access to. This prevents a spoofed DRM certificate or other interception of the HD stream, which in theory prevents a stream from leaking.

“In theory” of course, because every piece of content is ripped and available DRM-free as soon as it’s released.

I would have been receptive to the “there are larger issues” part but it might help to think of it like:

Instead of just an X-axis with “more/less important,” add a Y-axis with “more/less political,” a Z-axis with “more/less important to rich people,” an A-axis with “simple/complicated” and so on, with a narrow N-dimensional space in which something can happen. All of these values are changing constantly and independently for every issue. We can affect some of these values, but the entire picture is usually out of any one person’s control.

At this moment, fixing the concert monopoly is incredibly in the “maybe it can happen” zone. We just have to take it and run with it. Maybe, just maybe, ranked choice voting or taxing rich people or getting universal health care will make it to the “maybe it can happen” zone one day. It’s not that, but hey, at least something gets a little better now.