another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to

Are sure it won’t be a submarine so it can be as far underwater as his polling numbers?

Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus. Weiss; What did the driver say. Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times. Weiss: I’m killing your story.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

It’s 6:28am. It’s dark outside. There is zero wind. Our power was just cut. Fuck Xcel Energy.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

(Stares in unnecessary darkness.)

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Hard to believe the Republican speaker who lasted the longest in this century was the child molester

What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like

J.D. Vance was meant to be a guy you see for 3 seconds on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives as he goes "oh yeah, so good" with his dumb BBQ sauce-covered face. But instead he's the Vice President, explaining how you can be for a pure nation while having an Indian wife, because "one less wife for them"

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Look, the GOP has been the party for bad people who make everything worse for my entire adult life, but there has not previously been a simple and straightforward argument under conventional legal principles that several high ranking members of the administration are murderers.

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Where is the “allegedly?” Unless, of course, they’ve had the trial already or we’ve ridded ourselves of “innocent until proven guilty” while I was sleeping last night.

Man, Aiyuk really took a turn for the worse.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

all i'm saying is that there were better options

conservatives used to mock anti-vaxxers as clueless libs but as soon as it became associated with the right it took over the party and became a mainstream threat to public health

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case

Both were the husband

Please, no. Airplanes already smell bad enough as it is.

If you even own a confederate flag you are without doubt a gigantic piece of shit. Like you are objectively just a bad person and you should be shunned from society

Embarrassed to have shared my Westword cover with him, even in the smallest manner.

It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

Corrupt organization awards corrupt man a made up award. Film at eleven.

Eat the rich.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Having just spent the evening upgrading my Indiana Jones pinball Path of Adventure lights to LEDs, I can confidently say that no one should keep incandescent bulbs in the Path of Adventure. Ever.

I named my fists Thatcher and Reagan because they're about to significantly reduce your quality of life.

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

this is obvious to anyone with decent values and even a little but of common sense

When these groups agree on something, pay attention.

"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

There’s no way that this is real.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Jim Nantz pronounce Tyler Badie’s name correctly challenge.

Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.

Re: Epstein’s emails

It’s only pedophilia if it comes from the Pedophilia region in France; otherwise it’s just sparkling ephebophilia.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

a “Space Force”, if you will