Cutting taxes and public services to make life more affordable is like saying we should cut all the ingredients out of a recipe to make the food healthier. Sure, the calorie count is lower, but only because there’s nothing left to eat.

Generative AI is to art as zombies are to people: it repurposes unwilling material into abominations that endanger us all.

Comic is by Lynda Barry. Here's a version of it with alt text. (Thank you @alex-awoos.bsky.social!)

Billionaire bunkers are just tomb-dungeons with twisted cyber-lich occupants, precious filtration systems, and riches of the old world

Don't forget that God might also sanction the abhorrence or even will it outright! He may be its foul origin, just as He is ours.

Hello it’s me, technology genius man. I think the computer should be a guy you can talk to. Please grant me the power to blot the sun

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

My favorite part about dice is that they're not actually random for someone with sufficient dexterity

Just died to a poisonous little spider with a man's face (??) that I had found in a jar and which promptly bit me when I released it like a pokemon to help me fight a wraith

We are in a glorious fashion era in which fashionable clothes are also Comfortable

Easy to forget how cool of a word "skyscraper" is.

"These motherfuckers are stone cold crazy" has to be the starting point for campaigns because as soon as you treat this as a policy debate you have already lost.

You’re laughing. Our obese stupid senile pedophile president is trying to barricade himself in his winter palace after sinking the nation into an empire shattering conflict he cannot win and you’re laughing.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Happy Earth Day.

Maybe I'm video game-pilled, but "Roll to find out what happens" just isn't a gameplay dynamic I enjoy.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Did you guys know that Mamdani used to make hip hop, and that Lupita Nyong'o is in this video?

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

And the Strait of Hormuz, which did not open

Yeah, the "ceasefire" is strangely difficult to distinguish from the US fleeing the war, abandoning the region to chaos and Hormuz to Iran.

Imagine being Israel and having all the leaders of Iran assassinated only to have the president of the United States step in, give Iran total control of the gulf oil economy, and then agree to remove all restraints on Iranian power and nuclearization

[guy who has spent the last 10 years frighteningly close to government by the Emulsify All Migrants Party] if fascists appeared in my country I would simply become Lenin.

Europeans shut the fuck up challenge

chilling at my email job while my pedophile president is threatening total destruction of the birthplace of civilization honestly a kind of banal horror i genuinely don't have words for

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

Understand that if Trump ends his War as he just told Reuters and US voters he would, it's the second war he's lost to Iran in a year. No regime change. No nuclear material recovered. No deal to stop enrichment. Strait of Hormuz closed. Ballistic missiles falling on Israel daily.

GROND!

I was just working to an ambient mix that included rain sounds, and my wife walked in and asked "are you listening to a toilet"

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

I'm really fascinated by this sort of pseudo-journalism corporate America now churns out that pretends to be useful and informative, but generally exists as a sort of simulacrum, comically avoiding central parts of stories that might threaten billionaire or corporate power

instead of just standing around they should be wiping the piss off the floor under all the urinals

I just had that conversation earlier this week. The college dean is deciding if they will (dis)continue the bioinformatics training program for grad students. An argument for discontinuation is that students will use GenAI to help them code, so they don’t need to learn bioinformatics.

The American voter knows two things: How much they're paying for groceries and how much they're paying for gas. That's it. That's the list.

Zine coming soon: SALT, SPIT AND SILVER. Dig into MÖRK BORG’s core classes and find the people and the context behind the stats. Why did your Fanged Deserter flee? What is your Heretical Priest’s heresy, and your Gutterscum’s lowest low? Find not rules, but beliefs, stories, and sins. Printing now.

I know we live in a technofeudal purgatory today but idk if I'll ever be fully cynical about the internet. I just got a text from a gardener in the UK to confirm a seed trade, I'm gonna grow woad and madder and she's never had kkaennip so I'm sending her three different kinds, like that rules

Phenomenologically, this effect bulldozes the character—by which I mean the personal stakes of a human in conflict—into something empty, homogenous, and false.

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Naoyuki Kato

A cool reveal/confirmation about this Iran conflict is that the United States' defense spending does not correlate with our ability to win wars.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the two canonical interpretations of Barthes’ ‘Death of the Author’ usefully trace debates concerning LLMs.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Non-RPG design that could inspire RPG design. 1. These could be NPCs, locations, magic items or powers. Presented in three-column with an image for each.

objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

Disdain for understanding is a venerable fine-art tradition that formulas and sterility have justified over and over. I'm glad this essay exists to help rekindle what those formulas can snuff. But incomprehensible games are unplayable, and that makes them bad.

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Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris

I have a gold ink risograph print of the jawbone of Saint Anthony available on my shop at the moment erikapriceart.bigcartel.com

Sadie Bechamel, Adventure Bun