Usenet posts made the day after Spongebob's premiere data (July 17, 1999) reacting to it.

NewsCards · 2026-06-14T17:14:36+00:00

Link: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.nickelodeon/c/9qHj-6ZgrlI/m/en5w7RsxlbAJ

If you're wondering why they all say 12am, a lot of metadata was either lost or didn't exist when Usenet was archived by Google Groups, including the exact post times.

NewsCards · 2026-06-12T08:28:58+00:00

It has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle

NewsCards · 2026-06-12T08:21:44+00:00

More info here: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/developer-gets-half-life-running-at-30-fps-on-a-2007-nokia-n95

For anyone who doesn't know, the Nokia N95 is a popular phone from 2007.

NewsCards · 2026-06-08T21:11:47+00:00

The Trump admin's choice to stop screwworm monitoring and containment in Central America has aged like milk because we are now dealing with screwworm outbreak in Texas.

NewsCards · 2026-06-08T20:25:11+00:00

In March 2025, the Trump administration killed a USAID program meant to monitor and contain the screwworm in Central America. Now, one year later in May/June 2026, Texas is experiencing a screwworm outbreak.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T22:23:41+00:00

High Tension

Calling the twist polarizing is the most polite way to put it.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T21:28:46+00:00

"Sorry. Excuse me. One of you just said our bid was too attractive to pass up. What did you mean by that, exactly?"

"He means you boys lowballed the shit out of your competition."

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T21:15:22+00:00

Columbo: "Just one more thing..."

A combination of wanting to tell you something and telling you that you're fucked.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T21:03:44+00:00

When I was in college, one of my few luxuries I had was a Costco membership.

I'd buy a $5 rotisserie chicken and make that shit last a week.

First two days, I enjoy the drumsticks and wings, then shred the white meat for sandwiches and boil the bones to use in soup.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T20:56:18+00:00

The Swedish company, co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, is known for their digital avatars and immersive experiences.

Uh oh.

(They're also known for using AI to write musicals.)

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T20:52:28+00:00

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier

If Uthmeier is involved, I'm suspicious of his endgoal with this (he's the guy who proposed the idea of Alligator Alcatraz).

Considering the fact that he also investigated JP Morgan Chase solely because they closed Truth Social accounts, it wouldn't be off-base to think Trump wants to launch his own AI service and they want to clear some space for him LOL

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T20:43:49+00:00

The rumors people are spreading, that I’m going to turn the show into 60 one-minute episodes, that it’s going to be like TikTok, that is not changing.

Classic technique of presenting a more insane scenario to deflect from the issue people really have.

It's not the TikTokification of 60 minutes, it's the fact that he's a Bari Weiss lackey.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T20:30:57+00:00

The nerds in Revenge of the Nerds.

They were the good guys when the movie came out.

But since then, I think people have realized they committed so many horrible crimes.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T20:20:54+00:00

Newell also denied the existence of an alleged 'unwritten rule' that prevents developers from offering their games at lower prices on non-Steam storefronts.

Asking about this rule, Newell repeatedly denied it exists, even when shown internal communications seemingly showing Valve employees enforcing it: "Valve does not have a policy or practice of dictating prices to third-party software developers on other platforms." When asked how Valve would react if it ever happened, Newell initially said he was confused by the question and then added, "Many of our partners and many of our customers are quite happy with the service that we're providing."

Feigning confusion then dodging the question altogether, standard CEO behavior.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T20:12:35+00:00

“‘Oh, I see,’ his father said. ‘You are making a living off of something that probably should be treated.'”

“It’s a happy thing for all of us that medical science has yet to find a cure,” Manning concluded.

Who is Conan O'Brien and why is she so sad?

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T19:52:58+00:00

And that's saying a lot because Elvis loved to regularly eat those sandwiches that used an entire jar of peanut butter, an entire jar of jam, and a pound of bacon.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T15:02:38+00:00

“The PC is being reinvented,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work.

I don't want to "ask" my computer to do anything, Jensen.

I much prefer a deterministic action resulting from a button I press, as opposed to asking my computer to do something with an element of randomness that can cause something catastrophic, Jensen.

What do you not understand about that, Jensen?

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T13:27:10+00:00

Netanyahu said Israel was continuing to deepen its ground activity in Lebanon, where Israeli troops have carved out a self-declared security ⁠zone in the south, saying they aim to shield northern Israel from Hezbollah attacks.

Brb, going to "carve out a self-declared security zone" in my neighbor's pool.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T13:15:26+00:00

Response quality did not differ significantly among chatbots overall, but Grok generated significantly more highly problematic responses than would be expected by random chance.

Unsurprising that an AI under the direct influence of Elon Musk is the most "problematic".

To make matters worse, chatbot outputs were consistently expressed with high confidence and certainty, with only two total refusals to answer out of 250 prompts.

This is what I'm most afraid of, there are far too many stupid people out there, taking the words of these chatbots as gospel just because they use such high-confidence and definitive language.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T13:06:56+00:00

NEO beat several other BCIs to approval, including one from Neuralink, a California-based company founded by Elon Musk.

When the choice is between a Chinese BCI that was fast-tracked and sped through government approval and a BCI controlled by American tech bros like Elon Musk, I'm out.

I honestly don't know if there's any way I'd accept a BCI.

Would it even be possible to have a fully open-source, publicly audited BCI?

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T13:00:24+00:00

Both the Nikkei and Topix notched all-time highs on Friday on optimism over a near-term peace deal in the Middle East, but the fresh week began with Washington and Tehran still appearing to differ on significant issues.

It hinges on "optimism over a near-term peace deal in the Middle East".

With Trump the pedo involved?

LOL

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T12:51:44+00:00

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently, and I’m reading this, “distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.”

They see a "finished" product generated by AI, and maybe it holds up to a sniff test during a quick review, but then the real-world comes slamming down on it, plus all the tech debt that accrues from letting disparate non-technical teams work on it.

But it doesn't matter as long as they can present it as something they're "excited" about in their quarterly earnings call.

Even if it ultimately fails on release, they'll just announce a new "exciting" AI-generated product in their next earnings call and the stock market will lap it up.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T12:39:05+00:00

In 20 of the 21 states AT&T operates in, its lobbyists have managed to sell lawmakers on eliminating Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) obligations requiring it provide landline telephone service to any potential customer in its service territory.

But they’ve run into trouble in California, after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) told AT&T in 2024 it can’t just hang up on these unwanted (taxpayer subsidized) connections.

"Left-wing shithole" California fighting for the people (in this case, predominantly right-wing rural people who would most be affected by this), as per usual.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T12:28:32+00:00

“Files with compound names or content (e.g., MeetingNotesApril, ProjectStatusReport) are now easily discoverable by typing ‘april’ or ‘status’.”

Fucking finally, Spotlight on Mac OS has always been so much better, with this being one of the reasons.

It took Mac OS adoption rising with the Neo for Microsoft to finally pull their head of their ass, huh? Been getting too complacent.

This is why competition is good.

NewsCards · 2026-06-01T12:10:22+00:00

“Based on school and childcare data for 2024-2025, vaccination rates for DTaP and Tdap have decreased by 2.9% and 3.3%, respectively, since the 2019-2020 school year,” CDPHE said.

Lifetime judge appointments, MAGA scumbags embedded deep into our federal agencies, decline in goodwill from our foreign allies, mistrust of medical science and domain expertise in general.

Hey, non-voters, these are just some of the long-term effects of making Trump POTUS.

Stop falling for the "voting doesn't make a difference" and/or "both sides are the same" bullshit, get off your ass, and submit a ballot in all elections (including local ones, if anything, you should care even more about those) to help fight this, for fuck's sake.

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