there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work

all transformers fans will tell you to watch beast wars and you'll think oh like maybe its an big inside joke for the fandom or something, cus it looks like that, and then you watch it and it's the best thing you'll ever see

The Labour government object to us talking about Gaza. Genocide is serious and they should hang their heads in shame for arming it, not complaining to journalists. Not surprised they're distracting from their other failures - like addressing the cost of energy bills and rent.

Starmer's Britain, a country so xenophobic that citizens born and brought up there find themselves shut out because they dare sully their pure British heritage with a second nationality www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

(New coworker jumps suddenly startled) oh that’s ominous Susan she likes to emerge from the shadows.. HR are trying to transfer her to a darker realm

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Zack Polanski has slapped down Michael Gove for denying the genocide in Palestine

Israel is upset with the Green Party; Zack Polanski is upset with Israel's genocide – can you spot the difference? www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Doing a work course on human rights due diligence and I really think there's room to go digging in the concept of "forced labour" as it applies to a world without universal basic income. Even if you enjoy your job, isn't there an inherent threat of punishment if you don't work?

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

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If you want green, vote green If you want Labour to be proper Labour again, vote green If you don't want grifters, racists and fascists, vote green It you want an MP who is familiar with the area and people, vote green If you want Reform and are not yourself a multi-millionaire grifter, WTF?!

Labour would prefer a Reform victory in Gorton. Reform winning provides an excuse for moving the party further to the right. A Green victory will show that Labour's big problem is not being sufficiently left wing. It's the Starmer cabal's worst nightmare.

We somehow got to watch Heathers in our biology class when I was 12 and our teacher was sick. It was on a really old TV which had taken on a pink hue and no matter how many times I’ve seen it since in my memory it’s like it was filmed with a pink filter.

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Lots of them are panicking that AI uptake isn't fast enough and they might run out of momentum to do the sweep they are attempting to do on society. This isn't about AI, it's about the window in which they have permission to remould society. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

lol

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

it is not interested in plot, it is not interested in worldbuilding, it is not interested in anything except throwing random disconnected snapshots of nostalgia at you rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

is there a way of tearing down society and enriching billionaires that the left *is* excited about

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

I know I'm not likely to ever be sanctioned but this kind of story does make me very aware of how reliant I am on US companies, especially for things like email. I've had my Yahoo! address for 25 years but maybe it's time to migrate to a service based somewhere more trustworthy.

The left is excited about all the same technology in Star Trek with the added ability of being able to understand Star Trek.

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

This is my Roman Empire

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “green belt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London from the endless demand for AI infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/the-sm...

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Just a reminder that ChatGPT cannot betray anyone because it doesn’t have feelings or motives or thoughts

She's a fascist, this is fascist-speak

Hideki Sato, designer of virtually all of Sega’s consoles, has died. vgc.news/news/hideki-...

How many processor cycles are we now burning in order to fail to subtract one number from another

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The killings add to the death toll of 591 since October 10 'ceasefire' that Israel has violated more than 1,600 times https://aje.news/9jai4p

"government ends work-from-home for civil servants" is just a short way of saying "government decides to make your already-unbearable commute at least forty-seven times more excruciating to make sure their donors never miss out on a single dime in commercial real estate profits"

Messed up the salt circle at the bus stop today and a real estate agent walked right up to me 🫨

It's funny that this was posted to Anon Opin, as most people with a withering disdain for sport are usually only too happy to publicly exhibit their far more rewarding hobby of rolling their eyes at you and saying something about "sportsball"

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease