Hey folks, the boys are officially out of food and I'm behind on a few bills I need help with. Please help if you can and take care of yourselves.

Same.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Something I've noticed about disability rep is that we typically only show people with one singular profound illness. I think this creates an expectation in people's minds that you should only have one profound thing, and if you have multiple mild or moderate things then you must be lying.

First Oprah, now this useless rag. They don't interview the kids, because the kids have a laundry list of reasons why they're not talking to their parents anymore. Probably the biggest being 'they were making my life tangibly worse' and as adults, you are allowed to just say 'no, you suck, get out'.

It has always bothered the fuck out of me that people who want to be allies will cite a bill's exception for intersex genital mutilation and use that to say that, "It could have been worse. It could have banned cutting the genitals of intersex infants." And I'm like, "That would make it WORSE?"

A federal judge has blocked an age-verification mandate for social media in Louisiana, ruling that the same content can be accessed on unregulated sites, that it chills a huge amount of speech and that tools already exist for parents to block use. You know, the same arguments FSC made in Paxton.

Another bill aimed at repealing section 230 has been introduced, this time in the senate Please continue to advocate for protecting Sec 230 to your reps. We dont know how much support these bills will get yet, but they are obviously trying to push this issue www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

ai this ai that wheres the aì (爱).........💔........

ok zenkaiger technically not being an anniversary season entirely because kaito's parents counted it wrong? phenomenal bit

i do think TTFC could get infinite mileage out of a series in which actors have to try and make their own so-do figures. bonus if they have to try and do it in character like the bowling special of Geats where you lost points for breaking character or using catchphrases as a crutch

An underscored element of the “games aren’t seen as art” situation is that games are perhaps the art form with the highest amount of chuds per capita

I know it's like the least important thing about this, but nothing screams 'terminal LinkedIn brain' to me more than insisting your product is an 'everything app.' It tells me you have no idea what your product is or what value it provides.

twitter announced it’s replacing its statistics/engagement based algorithm with AI Anyways now would be a great time for bluesky to implement private accounts

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything with a larger disconnect between the executive class and the general public than AI - there have been cases where executives want to push something they know is unpopular, but on AI it's like the backlash hasn't penetrated their bubble at all

I think it's really important to keep imagining a better world. And that doesn't just mean wishing on a star aww how sweet, that means remembering that the way everything is shit right now is not written into immovable law. That means checking self and not believing so hard in the now as the always

There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

I’m gonna cry

I've mentioned this a couple times now, but I got an email advertising "AI voice software" and I checked why I was getting an email like that and found out it was a TTS program rebranded as AI because it's a buzzword that gets investors hard

the larian interview that sven vincke linked yesterday to clear his name is clear as mud about pretty important things - they do not elaborate on "we use AI when rapidly prototyping" - but him comparing IK to generative dialogue is a hat trick that leaves me entirely unmoved by his current anger

I have absolutely zero sympathy for studios intentionally conflating useful tools with LLMs in order to launder the image of LLMs then being surprised those legitimate automation tools are now a PR liability. If you are calling inverse kinematics AI you can't be surprised when people get mad at that

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

the gordian cycle

perhaps going to be the most poorly aged tweet of all time soon

beautiful woman who transforms into an armored hero and is mistaken for a man but doesn't care to correct people and the otaku girl who witnesses her transformation and is now having confusing gay feelings

"Sure I would love to go outside and grill" I said. Secretly though, I did in fact not want to go stand outside in the 20°F weather and grill in the dark And yet

people who think they’re oh so smart are probably even more likely to succumb to the eliza effect

This is what people mean when they say being anti-porn is inherently conservative thought. bsky.app/profile/mike...

society if you could consistently right-click-save videos to your drive like you can with every other god damn medium on social media

I don’t think Akiko Inoue is a bad writer, I think Gozyuger has a lot to praise about it, but I wonder if it could’ve been a mistake to have her write 40+ episodes of a Sentai when all of her toku cred before that was 12 episodes of Gotchard

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

"Oh it's just inflation" No jackass, they used to fucking mark down these consoles. The PS3 launched at $599 US Dollars and five years later I got mine for about $300. Five years ago the PS5 launched around $500 and without the current holiday sales it's $550 with the disc drive. This is stupid.

This is what actual Antisemitism looks like not being pro Palestine

The media blackout on the hunger strikers is disgusting. Nothing but puppets for the worst people in the UK. I've yet to meet a person in the real world who has heard anything about it.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

have you considered that for some people this specific fire is the one burning down their livelihood and a lot of those people are on this app

I am demanding $500 each from every single pundit and politico who tried to rehab her in the last few weeks. Right now.

We don't hate CEOs enough.

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Guys posting pages from the 1995 Sears catalogue on $70 cartridges to demonstrate how good we have it today real quiet right now.