One of the reasons that Musk is tolerated (and even revered) among the elite is that they can gauge what they’re able to get away with by simply following his lead. Since the CSAM on X will result in no gov. pushback or regulation expect every AI company to follow suit soon

Bro I can't take the nonstop references to kids media from the 2000s anymore I thought it was a fair point when gen z countered with "ok then stop making Simpsons references", but...I dunno, at least the Simpsons wasn't made for 7 y/o's? This is just gen z's version of Harry Potter shit.

It's literally always acoustic foam + pyrotechnics in a single exit basement club, I don't even need to read the articles. Dipshit owners killing people with their own idiot negligence

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.

Former NYT Editor: "I think [AG Sulzberger] saw [anti-trans coverage] as a political project—that he could take a stance that the hard right would like, that the Trump campaign might like."

The thing about conservatives is that they cannot create, they can only steal and destroy.

Personally if I still had the X app on my phone, I would wonder if having an app that generates CSAM on my phone was really a good idea

I think the "grace period" is officially over

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

one thing that really gets me about CGI in tv and movies now is that it could actually look perfectly fine but the artists handling this stuff are so frequently underpaid, overworked, put on bullshit schedules and often getting tons of revisions so it has to come out as crap anyway

theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

These major panics also tend to coincide with real systemic child sexual abuse being exposed. In the case of the first Satanic Panic, it was abuse coverups in the Catholic church as well as a run of protestant cults getting exposed

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" made this comic

Damn that is some good pelican action. Living their best pelican life. #birds

The fact this still goes around so much

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Tough to pick, but this was probably my favorite of his

This is like the electoral version of the CIA funding, arming and training jihadists in the 1980s.

truly one of the geniuses of posting

This was a fun story to write, stick around to the end for a speed run through the past 500 million years of climate history

[Trailer for Funyuns (2024)] Jeremy Strong holds an onion up in front of a board room "Kids don't want to buy this. They see this and they think Grandmas Soup. They hate this shit." he throws the onion hard against the wall "I think it's about time we started having a little fun with it"

What if, and stick with me here, The Outcomes are the part of politics people actually give a shit about and the process means nothing to anyone outside of it.

Icy rivers、Scarlet castle #oc #illustration

CSI has people convinced cops are Sherlock Holmesian scientists, but the real scientists have been quietly making incredible advances in human knowledge and welfare the whole time forensics has been used to destroy lives

That smile at the end is the smile of not merely approval but the relieved joy of a creator finding exactly the right thing that works.

The issue is there are many influential people who’d love to see the Democratic Party simply become a vehicle for the same people who lost the Republican Party to Trump.

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

good morning

One of the most clear-cut examples of vice signaling imaginable. "Tee-hee, we're so naughty!" Liberals are a bunch of children. Also didn't one of these dipshits spread blood libel for Meta and get fired for five seconds?

watched CYBORG tonight, a movie that only exists because Cannon had already sunk $2 million dollars into costumes for HE-MAN 2 and SPIDER-MAN and now couldn't make either. Pyun wrote it in a weekend and shot it in 23 days. a dude lost his eye, possibly in a shot IN the movie?

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

This video is so good, a true new standard. As someone who's tired of "game history" as people parroting trivia on Nintendo in the US, it's so refreshing to see how a tired topic can still be interesting when it's properly researched & contextualized. And also reminds us why any of this matters :)

Good Edo-period advice from KamuiKa

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

Hollering at this squirrel that he’s a ridiculous cliche

Disinformation should be the kind of illegal that lands someone with this size platform saying this shit in jail

Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

Everyone always wants to know “Who is the American gestapo?” but no one ever stops to ask “How is the American gestapo?”

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we've also had a lot of success with curbing binge drinking on college campuses since the 90s, even more in recent years. we haven't stopped it, but we've fought it and we're winning.

Spent too much time on this