So the new Springsteen movie is far and away the best musician “biopic” of the last few years, but something it makes me think about is how much trauma happens in the world that *doesn’t* become beautiful art.

Saying AI is punk rock is like saying McDonalds is a farmer’s market.

Environmental Protection Agency

I was near a TV that had Graham Norton on talking about a play in the west end of London. I didn’t google it. I didn’t IMDB it. Most importantly — I am Canadian, and live in Toronto. But now my algorithm is trying to sell me tickets London’s West End. But no, our phones aren’t listening to us. 🙄

PlayStation is gonna screw all of us a little, instead of some of us a lot: aftermath.site/playstation-is...

me: i like this thing. the internet: that thing sucks. you are stupid for liking it. i like this totally unrelated thing. this is rude behavior. it is antisocial and weird. why are people like this. if you wouldn't do it irl it is rude to do it on the internet.

In 2016 we thought he was like teflon: nothing could stick to him. But in 2026, it's clear he's more like teflon: ubiquitous, manufactured by the elite, and will be continuing to slowly poison every human being on earth even long after he's gone.

I’m still livid about this.

Story about AI (being mean) gets pulled because journalist used AI (that made mistakes): aftermath.site/story-about-ai...

Just a reminder that ChatGPT cannot betray anyone because it doesn’t have feelings or motives or thoughts

bill watterson was so good he drew a six year old smoking and everyone was like 'goddamn that's incredible'

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

I’m not like him. I’ll never be like him. #ff7

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Van Der Beek dead at 48, leaving his family (SIX kids and a wife) broke because of the evil insurance system THIS fucking hag took a leading role in perpetuating

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.

"Well they can drill or they can mine, On my smouldering bones, This my prairie, And this is my home." How the guy who wrote that line presents a different vision of Albertans to a world that more often sees a caricature.

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

They haven't reversed, Keep up the pressure #discord

great article

We need to normalise communicating with a certain brand of American on here by pretending we know absolutely nothing about what they're talking about.

This is why I always get so mad about movies that portray characters getting instantly frozen when they are exposed to outer space. It leads to fundamental misunderstandings of how reality works that are so pervasive, nobody even checks at any level.

There are, it’s just that like mastodon, no one has heard of them or understands how they work. One to check out is matrix.org It’s a protocol you can host on your own site. Users make accounts somewhere that is compatible and can join yr chat server.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)" I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer. It's not actually about the kids.

Something that people don’t understand about dogs is that just because yours has excellent recall and is super friendly, that doesn’t mean they can just be off-leash wherever. Sometimes your bouncy off-leash dog gets up in my traumatized, reactive dog’s face and what then, huh?

Email is a protocol. You have email providers, but no one cares about that. You have your friend’s address, you send them an email. Why isn’t there a protocol for discord? Instagram? Twitter? No platform, just different providers. You can move providers without being beholden to one company?

Oh, it's far worse than that. Society as a whole realized the harm - potential and direct - almost immediately. It's just that the people that run the world decided, even as the corpses piled up, that they just didn't care and were going to bet the entire global economy on radium toothpaste.

If you are working on the VFX for a fantasy movie — never, ever add god rays from the sub to your shots. It *always* looks terrible. Anyway, I’m watching Wicked 2.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

I wish the effects on your use of energy, AI, water, etc had a direct impact on your household. If so everyone would be MUCH more conservative

MacOS Tahoe has severe memory leaks, causing even new, strong machines to suffer debilitating performance issues. What's the over/under on this new OS having been "vibe coded" by some jockey with chatgpt?

Someone should write an article about the 2000s indie rock scene — that cringe inducing era of heartfelt and deeply sincere guitar stuff — and how it represents the self-immolation of millennial idealism. An entire genre of “oh yeah, it’s just not gonna work out for us, huh?”

The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it. Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

The culture around book making and what is and isn’t “legitimate” is interesting. If you self-publish a novel you’re looked at with pity, but copypastas get optioned into Hollywood films. Webcomics aren’t “real” comics, but there are webtoons with more readers than a Spider-Man issue.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-wR2MunihSniY5Ug4LXqFZg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Moisture in air key factor in rain drops falling

Adobe announced it's killing off Animate (formerly Flash), abandoning millions of artists who depend on the software while continuing its push into AI-heavy toolsets. www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-...

A product you no longer do anything with but continue to sell is called FREE MONEY, guys I hate Adobe so, so much

Second day of my baby being at daycare... I have no idea what I used to do with all this free time.

An incredibly ambitious project. So proud of you, pal.

Even in Elon Musk’s denial of his involvement with Epstein—which directly contradicts the available evidence—the world’s richest man is still claiming he knew all about “pedo island” and didn’t do anything to stop it. Even in their fantasies of innocence they’re still directly enabling child abuse

Hey, anyone got one of those infographics that show how every major new organization is owned by a billionaire?

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

It’s probably good that the Shenmue series might never finish because gamers would’ve hated where that series was obviously heading.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS