can betazoids read cat minds

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This man does not understand fundamental structure of America and the constitution

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Sadly relevant, still:

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Chotiner: And when you engraved "One Ring to rule them all" on the— Sauron: I don't understand why everyone keeps taking that out of context. Chotiner: Well, do you mean to rule us all? Sauron: I'm here to talk about Gondor's illegal encroachment in Ithilien, Isaac.

Only Congress has the authority to declare war—but Republican leadership seems content to let Donald Trump do whatever he wants at whim. trib.al/y8kkYNP

You can always tell the difference between the legislator who is just reading questions put together for them by staff, and one who understands the subject and knows what they're asking.

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran. So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

MY rage at AI is the twofacedness from those selling it and those frothing at the mouth to use it: they want to unemploy entire sections of the economy and then call you a lazy fuckwit for it. That they ALSO want to replace creative expression (art, music) with it is the shit swirl on top.

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.

Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines. The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/takamoto-a...

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

There was a moment during my oral exams where I started "arguing" with one of my committee members on a certain historiographical point. They told me later that was *the* moment I passed. It proved I was enough of an expert to disagree with a bigger expert in the field and back it up with evidence.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

"The reality is that financial incentives pervert reality." Watch this for context on the history of Polymarket allowing bets on nuclear war on their site; this was not the first time, and bets are still up on other versions of it.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Winter's loosening its grip. Almost. #IndieGame #GameArt

On the one hand, there's a real "wheels coming off the train" level of chaos out of the Trump administration right now. On the other, he's president for 35 more months, and he's clearly established already that he considers Congress superfluous even under bicameral Republican control.

It happened at a time of his choosing

fascists lie. trump lied about no wars. maga assholes like carlson and greenwald are lying when they say they were fooled. they all lie about everything because they see truth as weakness and good faith as an attack vector. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fascists-lie

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Am I the only one who remembers Republicans singing "bomb Iran" to a Beach Boys tune 10 years ago or more?

She so casually corrected his mistake about the publication, meaning that she prepared more for his cherry picking anecdotal bad faith attack than he did

Remember, the war with Iran is necessary because it’s unacceptable to have aggressive governments run by theocratic lunatics launching unprovoked attacks on the rest of the world

"Lifting as we climb" Banner showing the motto of the US National Association of Colored Women, started in 1896, the most prominent organization formed during the African-American Women's Suffrage Movement #womensart

Its one thing to read the histories and realize that fascism is an ideology by and for weird losers who suck at everything, and another to live through it

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

They've been using glyphosate (state water board allows it) and were using Roundup as recently as Jan of 2025! Foley, as per usual, appears to be the only supervisor who gives a fraction of a damn.

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Hell yeah. I also get fucking furious when people think they don't have to play by the rules.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

The Green Dress, John White Alexander (1856–1915).

trump said he would never get "bored" of attacking iran, 30 seconds later he is talking about the nice drapes at the white house

I'm really enjoying PONIES and I hope it gets a second season. And I write this only like four episodes in to this first season, however: this show needs someone to let characters be smart or use common sense and let the plot spill out from there, not make them dumb/avoidant to fit into the plot.

This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...

At some point in the last decade or so many men began to confuse “being a whiny bitch” with traditional masculinity and I find it very odd

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

Excuse me, Donald Trump LIED about something? DONALD TRUMP? My god if only there had been a sign.

I think these foreign policy views are normal and good

It is both outrageous and very representative of this administration and the entire conservative movement that women are responsible for men’s crimes, and that women who challenge men must be made to suffer in perpetuity.