I'm coping with ~everything by playing old and kind of mid JRPGs I figured out how to mod them on my steam deck and I'm having way more fun

The Magician's Daughter by @hgparry.bsky.social. It's your normal YA fantasy with a surprisingly nuanced take on growing up and realizing your parents and other adults are just people There's not a drop of cynicism in the book, but it does not pull its punches, either. Lovingly honest, maybe lol

Dear God, this whole comment section is just one enormous Eliezer Yudkowsky cultist jerkoff thread. I get that *he* thinks he's a staggering genius, but I don't get why anyone *else* does lol. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4482...

lol sorry for the vagueposting, I was gonna start posting about a project we've been working on, but my shenanigans pal asked for a temporary stay

*deep breath* here goes

I assigned myself the write up of this report and so I have only myself to blame ;_;

spending my friday night researching terrorist financing models like a normal person

this is so good I'm mad about it

fuuuuuuuck

Sad update: it appears that the crazy people I've spent years training to be rabid animals have, for reasons too complicated to explain right now, completely turned against me

I dug into this some more, with the help of a few other folks. This is almost certainly a person called Philip Jacobson.

Oh, they can fuck alllllllll the way off with this.

Scam industry information thread 🧵

Fraudsters targeting vulnerable people using the world's easiest mark? Wow, who could have predicted this.

Fruit salad with marshmallows.

Thread in reply to the Gizmodo article.

When they wait until the end to make a lame excuse for shitty sourcing, you know they fucked up.

FFS, the NYT published a bad story and so your response is…to fling racial slurs at one of the handful of Black columnists at the NYT, who was openly critical of the article?

The number of tankie idiots going after *Bouie* here is fucking gross.

we stan a high quality shitpost✊

I covered the coffee table with a folded sheet and accidentally created the world's best cat jungle gym. They're taking turns darting in and out and thwacking at each other through the cloth lol

Putin sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Putin reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

I believe the Latin is Detonium Elonius Infinitum

it occurs to me that trump is maddening sort of how LLMs are maddening, in that it is nigh-impossible to try not to apply theory of mind reasoning to him when he is fundamentally just a collection of appetites and unthinking resentments chaining words together

only if you remove the outlier, Antisocial Online Stalinist Georg, who does misanthropic doomposting at 10x the rate of the average embittered 30something who hasn't quite finished all of Das Kapital but still tells people to read Marx

Anyways, the ivy dot law site is slightly better, so I assume someone other than this doofus set it up There's nothing overtly wrong with it, but a lot of little things

I'm bored in a meeting and this guy sucks at his astroturfing job I'm gonna critique

Jesus, whoever hired this dude needs to ask for a refund. This is piss-poor agitprop 😂

One thing social media has taught me (though I have definitely experienced it in other media too): a lot of people, even quite smart people, are worryingly bad at reading comprehension. For instance: many have trouble distinguishing between someone *describing* a thing and *advocating* that thing.

looks familiar huh

truly some of the whiniest people on earth

did you consider all the labor practices that went into your hitler-killing gun. was the power source environmentally sustainable. did you say you were killing hitler for the holocaust without taking a correct position on the current state of israel

I used to have some lazy unexamined views of the military, but then I learned better. It's not perfect by any means -- no big organization is -- but it's much, much more professional and disciplined than LE. Multiple veterans saying cops regularly do shit that would get them court-martialed.

GOOD. Fuckers. They deserve to be shamed.

Hah. Not even the cops can rely on the cops to show up. Also, what ICE genius thought LA was a good place to pick a fight?

In honor of this day -- and totally not because I am procrastinating on something -- I give to you the gift of admitting to the dorkiest thing I ever came up with in relation to this thing The Threadnought 90s Music Lip Sync Musical

Ok...please...I can only take so much

Elon and Trump pulling into separate Home Depot parking lots and tweeting “I’m here you fuckaas bitch”

I cannot stop wheezing

No lie. I checked and it's tiny babyman thunderdome over there

Hacked some Javascript, forced the feature flag for xchat on, and verified my assumptions - Twitter's got the ability to recover private key material for their encrypted DMs, even ignoring the complete lack of any MITM or metadata protection: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

Ok, I'm almost done making Yakuza 0 my entire personality, I swear. But I've been picking off some of the less wacky side quests during boring calls and there's been a couple of bangers

A friend mentioned this great point lol If *I* were Hamas and desperately scrapped for cash *I'd* be getting in on the sweet sweet Molly Shah fundraising / money laundering action too

Gosh, what uncontrovertable evidence that can't be faked It's not like there's multiple apps that do this play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I cannot 💀 What part of "Bluesky has access to information* you do not" is unclear lol It's almost like they explicitly said they see individuals running dozens of "Gazan" scam accounts * Email addresses, IP address, machine fingerprinting, plus more sophisticated heuristics

The void judges you

I really wish it was more widely known that PR firms "place" stories all the time. Basically any corporate puff piece or "[shitty unpopular guy] isn't that bad" story or column is almost certainly one of them. Source: by no means an expert, but watched our corporate PR team at a prev job

"I'm not centering myself!", she says, centering herself. I would bet folding money that if we polled her professional contacts, very of them would have a problem with Palestine and a whole lot of them would have a problem with her being a tedious ass

Photos I need to share with little or no context, part 2 😂