Have we asked any of those people who protested the tearing down of Confederate monuments as "erasing history" how they feel about 5,000-year-old cities being destroyed in Lebanon and Palestine and Iran or do they only give a shit about statues of losers?

I don't care who this offends but if you ever thought the US was interested in "liberating" Iran you're just patently stupid. Global powers been trying to control Iran for over 200 years. This is no different from the "Great Game" between the British and the Russian Empires.

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he never articulated, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Trump is cornered, and he’s going stark-raving mad.

Wild watching all the people who 10 years ago believed the propaganda that antifa was a "terrorist organization" wondering today where all of this fa is coming from

I know that it is useless to regret not starting sooner in life, but I feel overwhelmed—honestly crushed, really—by the regret I feel about not taking steps to get things written and published earlier in my life. I know I'm not that old (37) but I do feel like I missed a much better window for this.

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

This thread took years off of my life

I used to hook up with someone who proudly declared they only read non-fiction because reading for anything but knowledge was a waste of time. We had many debates on the subject. I had many points but my biggest was that good fiction enriches the soul and that is a worthy utility all on its own.

Trans people just want the right to exist safely as their true selves, like everyone else. But they’ve become easy scapegoats for the conservative moment, which vilifies them and threatens to criminalize their very existence. It's straight from the authoritarian playbook.

This feels so irresponsible, not just because AI can't even do basic math let alone responsible journalism, but because there's also a decent chance that the tech won't even exist anymore in a few years—setting all these people up for failure if they never learned how to do things themselves.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.

At the end of the day, AI bros are selling you the idea that you can get rid of all the friction—but the friction is where the magic happens.

i asked a magic 8 ball if everything was going to be ok and it collapsed in on itself like a dying star is that good

Oh boy.

I consider this a public service

Also I totally set up potential plot devices and then completely forgot to make any use of them whatsoever… I can have fun with this in the edit 🤔

My research assistant is napping on the job

Has an X-Men movie ever been directed by a good person?

The hard part about trying to read my own manuscript with an eye to revising and editing it is that I'm spending the majority of my time cringing at myself. The nice part is every once in a while I'll happen upon a passage and think, you know what? That part is actually good.

What no that wasn't me crying like a baby in Strathcona Park because I read "The Truth About Owls" by @amalelmohtar.com you're thinking of some other guy

Just sitting here thinking about how Black ppl came up with jazz, the blues, rock and roll and hip hop WHILE this country was doing everything it could to ensure we had nothing. Nobody needs Al to create except the untalented.

this is actually why i once had a positive opinion of Rowling. As a kid I got bullied for reading giant nerdy books. Once HP got huge suddenly every kid was hauling giant tomes around school and I didn't get laughed at anymore. no public figure ever burned more of my goodwill faster

there's so much disproportionate anger at normal people for not doing enough to meet the moment and man, I don't know. almost nobody makes any of the decisions about who gets what money or support or awards. we're all just playing a little game called "don't die" that we will eventually lose

“why haven’t we gotten a quidditch video game?” 1. There was one in 2003, it sucked 2. There was one in 2024, it sucked 3. Quidditch itself is more of a plot device than a game you can actually play, the points don’t make sense, nothing makes sense, so every adaptation of it will suck out loud

This is horrifying for so many reasons, but perhaps the most dire is the notion that we've allowed the world to be structured in such a way that the whims of whoever is in charge of one single nation can dramatically impact the lives of millions around the globe: www.jezebel.com/more-pregnan...

Every day I log on here to argue that a better world isn't possible and i'm rewarded for it by the dastardly leftists telling me to shut da fuck up, the worst possible thing that can happen to a person.

Pretty sure I had this card, it goes unbelievably hard

a lot of our problems as a society started when the sequel to the Human Centipede was called the Human Centipede 2, instead of the Human Millipede. We just don't know how to scale up anymore.

Sometimes when I take damage in a video game it'll flash a message like, "You can press L1 to block incoming attacks!" I know that already. I haven't forgotten. I just have the reflexes of a toddler on ketamine.

It's so cool that everyone who agrees with me is engaging with the topic in a really analytical, nuanced, intellectual way, and all the people who disagree with me are either engaging in bad faith, mistaking being loud for being right, or jumping on a bandwagon! I am very smart and insightful.

Finding out that the Great Replacement theory exists because some guy was upset about seeing brown people in a small French village in 1996 is nuts. Like obviously the theory was always stupid but it's actually even more stupid than I knew.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

Jensen Huang appears to feel nothing but the deepest contempt for video games, the people who make them, and the people who play them. Which wouldn't be an issue if he was just some guy. But he's the CEO of the world's largest supplier of graphics cards for PC gaming.

The beauty of video games is that they’re video games, I don’t care if a video game has shitty graphics. It’s literally pixels on a screen. If you wanted to see real life graphics GO OUTSIDE!

Whaaaaaat never!

Why the humanity of all writing (and all writers) matters more today than ever.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

for some reason (the knowledge that 100% of my money is going toward torture camps, surveillance tech, and warfare, rather than vaccines or public radio) i am having a hard time starting my taxes this year

I keep seeing pithy tweets about how "being wrongly accused of using AI must be what being accused of witchcraft was like" And... no. No no no. They killed those women. You're being moderately inconvenienced.

Alexander the Great drank himself to death because his boyfriend died and his soldiers wanted to go home

Happy #StPatricksDay! Want some Irish folk-horror? Here are two of my favourites I've recently experienced.

Boy am I glad I went with an AMD GPU seeing how awful this DLSS 5 nonsense is

DLSS on ✅

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