I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

Time for another one of my least beloved memes “Obi Wan gives music trivia and leaves Luke to die”

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

actually insane to throw your wife under the bus for a bunch of people who will never be satisfied for with you AND over a tweet that is a thousand percent factually true

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

I’m not at all excited to see the Joe Rogans of the world “criticizing” Trump, these are Yankees fans who are mad at the Yankees right now because they aren’t leading the division, they’re not going to stop cheering for them

"Why aren't the youth out protesting right now?"

"lost media" youtuber trying to sound spooky: "we don't know anything about the contents of this strange film, 'Fire Safety with Heathcliff and Pals' or what secrets it might reveal"

neofeudalists correctly understand that capitalism is always going to move towards socialism over enough time, and they -- almost always C-suite types, owners, investors -- know how completely useless they are for such an arrangement. people cleaning toilets are 1000000000x more useful

every joke from married with children that has stuck in my head was a kelly bundy line. "why are you watching telemundo? you don't speak spanish." "oh, I just thought those were english words I hadn't learned yet" truly one of the greats

Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Walken in Macbeth at Lincoln Center in NYC from 1974.

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bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

If an American flier is delayed for 24 hours at an airport, they will tell that story for the rest of their lives. Meanwhile our taxes routinely displace millions of people for days, weeks, months, years, decades, lifetimes.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Hays Code was self enforced! So was Comics Code Authority! These weren’t laws and look what still lasted DECADES and destroyed careers/freedom of expression. US comics industry never recovered from it bc comics aimed at adults still aren’t a thing, that’s why manga filled the market gap.

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

Drone strikes in Haiti. Drone strikes. In Haiti. By private contractors. They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention. The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it

what the fuck

Thought this was the parody account for a split-second

This has been pointed out many times (including by Evan!), but it bears repeating that this is the same playbook used to sow suspicion on vaccinations and the existence of climate change.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is getting an Ubisoft approved and Valve supported Community Edition with updated Souce 1 engine and new features www.resetera.com/threads/14...

Yes, let's display the two heterosexual child abusers as gay lovers.

I remember once before COVID I wanted to do a post about reminding people to get their flu shot and a senior staffer told me that is not a good idea because the anti-vaxxers might get really mad. Corruption? Sure. They just didn't want to get some angry emails or bad publicity.

Cis people calling trans people brave feels like they're positioning the situation so when we are genocided and thousands of us are dead they can paint it as heroism instead of a fucked up/monstrous chapter of history where no one stopped the violent murder of vulnerable people.

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/AgADAQADjqkxGxmEIUT3EjIhhfsqN4fmolAXAAuMYwACAg.jpg

This remains one of my most ridiculous niche jokes and I'm very delighted I wasted so much time crafting it.

The further it strays from "thought experiment to challenge utilitarianism" the less useful it gets. And I'm not convinced gotcha scenarios are a good way to think about moral philosophy in the first place.

クロノトリガー #ドット絵

クロノトリガー #ドット絵

I love this frame. I love the character conveyed by this frame. Sublime.

At no point in this thread are the lives of Iranians even mentioned. Not really surprising but this guy does often play at being one of the good ones so it’s nice to get a corrective

TACO

GenAI users are very loud about their extrinsic motivations: they want to be rewarded for the *result* not the process. They want to be seen as writers and artists and programmers, more than they want to write and draw and program.

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

I was told there are "full A.I. protections in place that guarantee in writing that [my] voice will never be used for A.I. development" but was also told "with certainty, from [Capcom], that the project will not go union."

It's been discussed more in the context of the Manosphere, but: A consequence of being fully submerged in the Trump-era for over a decade is that an entire generation of reactionary-minded men (mostly) have come of age in a social landscape where shamelessness & cruelty are aspirational traits.

the troops lobster and steak story everyone is mad about is actually a story about how the defense budget being stupid and bloated leads to massive spends on furniture and food every september under every president because of use it or lose it

This is pretty convincing evidence that CNN is using ChatGPT to write their social media posts but the editor's note in the article just seems to confirm it. Also seems to indicate that editorial is either asleep at the wheel or has also been replaced with AI.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

'final fight was originally shown at trade shows under the title of street fighter '89 but changed to final fight before its official release after feedback from operators stating the game was nothing like street fighter.' archive.org/details/game... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_F...

tim drake: i just don't think it's asking too much to put your drinks on a coaster. and to not leave your guns on the table. jason todd: mmm. tim? tim: what. jason: you watched a lot of Arthur growing up, didn't you? tim: how the hell could you have known that.