NEW: 404 Media’s experimentation with Haotian AI marks the first time a journalist has managed to test this deepfake software to see how it really works. What did we learn? Haotian AI demonstrates its tool as a way to impersonate at least one US police department. And it's extremely effective.

the song is good now, sorry past me but it's Good Now & Evermore

all Martin Ødegaard know is press, eat hot chip, and left foot

"post-9/11 america = post-Carlist Wars Spain" theory continues to hold up. going on like 15 years now since I first started suggesting that parallel (at no point did I earn the right to be heard about it, skill issue on my part tbqfh).

ahead of tomorrow's do or die champions league semifinal, one question every Arsenal fan wants answered: "Hey remember last year when we were in this position and CBS Sports preempted the first 5 min of the game for 'breaking news' from the Vatican that they still hadn't picked a new pope?"

damn I didn't realize there's a sequel to WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

first weekend in a new apartment means first batch of Marcela Hazen marinara in a new kitchen and y'know what folks? I'm not gonna lie to you. I made a real mess.

an armed society is a polite society. a legged society is a society that gives its children that weird toy that you swing around with one ankle and jump over it with the other foot. an arm-and-a-leg society is a society that shoplifts.

some personal news -- Focus Features has picked up my screenplay about a laid-off sports blogger who goes on a misandrist murder spree. LET'S DISMEMBER SOME GUYS coming fall 2027 to a theater near you!

Oh they're doing the @lolennui.bsky.social post

there are many reasons that i prioritize reading people smarter than me on the subjects to which i bring the least native understanding. one of those reasons is sometimes those people do a typo and i get to imagine a full "was the grink there" thing around it, which leavens my broader inadequacy.

North London Forever is a bad song written by a nepotism failson and corporately foisted upon Arsenal fandom at our lowest modern point. other clubs sing oddball classic pop chart Let's Remember Some Tunes shit and it works both because it's organic/old and because they're actually good songs.

this is from a perfectly reasonable piece about how we can't know for sure what AI's effect on jobs will be in the aggregate. go ask Hartford CT how these charts felt to live through.

Spain in the 30s theory continues to gather steam

a great blog defector.com/dianna-russi...

so do i have to become a shoe company and *then* pivot to AI, or can i just skip that step and still get billions showered on me by the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet

a dear friend has just said the most dangerous sentence a loved one can say to me: 'can you make me a Garth Brooks starter pack.' yes. yes i can. it will be three times as many songs as it should be, but yes.

really hope these assholes bring their decoy "girly suitcases" with them to Nuremberg 2.0 when it's their turn. happy to let them slap any stickers they want onto the rope assigned to em.

Force Majeure if you like your audio mixing tidy and all moments of dialog comprehensible at first encounter, or McCabe & Mrs. Miller if not

aw man, I didn't realize Todd Snider died suddenly a few months ago.

shuddapuddemm, shoulda put em onnnn again/so I could see you see me sincerely yellin back

some pretty solid replies lol

RETVRN!!!!

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laughing but also relieved, cause that shit really caught me out the other day. (in between all the ads from some kind of less lethal handgun?)

The most vindicated man on the internet was the guy that tried, in vain, to make people understand you do actually need some decent firepower to deal with the Wild Hawg problem.

(Robert Plant "Nobody's Fault But Mine" voice) Ursula von der Leyen

Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍

far from the most pressing question for the world about this, but it's for now the most important one in my specific brain: can anybody confirm my hope that the Hungarian political party "Tisza" is pronounced like the American name Teisha?

if you can't handle me at my "fuck these six fish in particular," you don't deserve me at my "Bill Stickers is innocent"

*slams hand mjolnir til that beer shuts my laptop*

listen, the grown-up socialist in me is very glad that people who like cannabis can now buy it in stores that play pop songs and generate tax revenue for public services. but the retired drug dealer in me? thinks some of y'all have never had to worry about getting robbed or arrested and it shows.

how many vapes must a man misplace/ before you prescribe him vyvanse?

that veep episode where they put the wrong draft of her speech into the prompter and it's too late to fix it is one thing you could choose to watch between now and when the moist, bloodthirsty and fundamentally stupid president goes on teevee to announce whether he's gonna do war harder or softer

oh my god the wales fans are singing the Cymru Connection jingle from Elis & John

hey if anyone knows why the lesser Garth Brooks song "Beaches of Cheyenne" has just popped into my head can you please DM

Station Eleven hive LET’S GOOOO!

oh yes, I support smokeless tobacco products [suddenly affecting a British accent] for my zyns

for once a thing involving my alma mater that I can just wholeheartedly enjoy and endorse

when i have beers that i may cease to beer. when i got beers with the learn'd astronomer. i wandered lonely as a beer. ode to a grecian beer. sailing to beerzantium.

i feel like every previous time in my life that i've encountered some little chunk of latin, it has sounded quite officious, even grave. today i discovered that is not always how it works. today, i discovered "nunc pro tunc." very serious lawyers sometimes write "nunc pro tunc" on stuff. hilarious.

next novel centers on a Sicilian man named Apesto Getherstrong who leads a prison uprising

weirder still, they didn't actually cut his hair to execute this change. instead they moved the hair you see in the left image onto Adam Arkin, where it remained for the next 20 years.

really excited to share the name of my new Panic! At The Disco cover band

man, this is beautiful.