The classic art of the Ninja: firing a submachine gun at nothing

anyone trying to both sides whether birthright citizenship is enshrined in the u.s. constitution should be curb stomped

Doing the Return of the Joker rewatch and was reminded of a top 10 post

Three key points we seem to forget: 1. The cost of international bulk shipping has dropped 98% since the 1950s due to containerization. 2. *Everything* got off-shored, for everyone. It's all global supply chains now. Shipped by oil. 3. You can optimize for efficiency or resilience, but not both.

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

this what driving a 15 year old bmw feels like

Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

Moluccan Cockatoo Molly Numbers 1-10 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/242022/

The techs we collectively call AI have use cases, but policy should be about solving problems in the public interest, not identifying ways to deploy specific technologies just for the sake of doing so. Yet that’s *still* how so many of these convos are framed. It’s exhausting. And harmful.

Similarly, referring to “AI” as an actor rather than a tool serves to absolve people and institutions of accountability. I’m struck by how many so-called leaders seem happy to treat widespread “AI” adoption as a fait accompli, an act of God or natural phenomenon that can’t be contested, only managed

Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.

So I was watching the 1993 Finish Made For TV adaptation of The Lord of The Rings, and thought everyone should see the moment where Gollum falls into Mount Doom.

it just seems like there is a deep incuriosity about the technologies that enable our deep incuriosity

While I don’t believe the only people who have something valuable to say about LLMs are those who can describe concepts like stochastic gradient descent and overfitting, it would certainly make my experience online a more pleasant one if they were the only people I heard bray on about the topic.

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.

I think there's something wrong with these Pokémon.

i don't think "techbros need humanities" is a solid action plan (even if it may make a good slogan you reassure yourself with); Peter Thiel has a BA from Stanford and that didn't make him any less of a ghoul. maybe more if anything

I do think it’s very funny to convert to Catholicism as an ordinary if mildly famous person at the time only to have the Pope eventually become one of your biggest haters

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

Why does the media continue to use the word "Millennial" as code for "young person"? That's not what it means. It's literally in the name. A Millennial is someone at least a thousand years old.

Conversation At Other End Of Table Sounds Way More Interesting https://theonion.com/conversation-at-other-end-of-table-sounds-way-more-inte-1825465639/

and you know they're gonna get your ass by the end of next week but for now you have today, it's a party, everybody's invited, tomorrow we die but today we ride. /thread

you ride into town on the donkey, preceded and trailed both by the people who believe in you and by the people who are relentlessly roasting you for how ridiculous you look, and you let them talk, but still you ride in on the donk,

“agentic” shut up!!! shut UP shut UP!!!!

I think old people and normies who live life mostly in meatspace simply feel much freer to express basic truths like "someone oughtta do something about that guy" than those of us who are terminally online and have learned to pre-censor because we don't want to catch a ban

This game actually exists.

Seeing about a thousand posts of people preemptively mad at leftists for scoffing at no kings protests, and not one single post which meets this description.

it's so funny when you vpn to the UK to use bbc iplayer and it's like "do you have a tv licence you can't do this without a tv licence" and you're like, sure. 😌

George C. Scott at the Doctor Strangelove premiere, realizing Kubrick only used the goofy takes.

red teaming LLM tools is truly a noble and respectable profession

focused

Baseball is the only argument that nominative determinism is real. These are baseball as fuck names

everyone should make unlearning a lifelong practice

with the vibes around hardware prices hockey sticking soon, i threw down for a radeon 9070 xt 16gb. this replaces my geforce rtx 2080 super from pandemic times. oddly, i feel most excited about getting rid of my nvidia drivers in linux

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

Which Tiger Driver is more dangerous?

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

when replying on bluesky, remember that any word in the original post can be used as a springboard for incoherent free association

every time i see someone with a "normal" tv it's like a glimpse into hell

Modern games: [invisible wall] Retro games: A six-point presentation on why you are unworthy of this shovel.