When I was in school, literally all this would have accomplished for me was to help convince me that school is stupid

t has been perhaps the most horrible, crazy-making experience of my adult life to watch things I understood clearly as a mentally unwell 20-something inexorably unfold due to nazi fearmongering abetted by liberal indifference, distaste, and spinelessness.

boy bill maher really doesn’t get a lot of laughs on, you know, his own show

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Imagine Trump decided to make yoga mandatory for every American for an hour a day but his conception of yoga is actually people dueling with pistols. Would it make a lot of sense to argue the various pros and cons of mandatory yoga in that case? That is what we are doing right now.

Oh yeah there it is. Some early pages falling out of the binding at this point.

Michael Mann’s tribute to the late Tom Noonan (watch What Happened Was …)

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

“Oh but it will be bad for middle class Americans” the existence of America has been a bane to billions of people worldwide for a century let’s stop centering fucking white families with two door garages esconced in the imperial core for one fucking second my god

There is no meaningfully fixing America unless you destroy the imperial apparatus; tbh that’s why it makes more sense to just dismantle this country root and stem.

jfc (pardon the irony of this outburst)

Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

I sometimes think the murder of Google Reader is what led to…all this

Fuck Grok

if there were a way to do this for reading there'd be no libraries (not that libraries are thriving nowadays)

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

2026 basically

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

Stephen King villains are a very funny outcome of Writing What You Know because they're so clearly based on assholes he's met in real life, even if that doesn't necessarily make sense in context, so you get shit like the giant baby-eating spider from space inexplicably being an outspoken homophobe.

Danny Elfman gets all the credit, but oingo boingo wouldn't be complete without the other members, Eric Dwarfman and Brett Humanman

for when it happens to you www.pcgamer.com/hardware/som...

EXACTLY! (thread)

This was the intended outcome of the abortion ban.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

over the years I slowly, quietly, mostly unfriended those who passed away. the weird automatic birthday reminders just became too ghoulish. I barely use FB now anyway, but it's so gross to think those accounts could become zombies.

"They don't even say the n-word in it. Ruins my immersion."

Hey, I've heard two different podcasters suggest that Ser Arlan of Pennytree fought on behalf of the Blackfyres. That is slander! Ser Arlan fought against the Blackfyres - his squire was killed in battle versus an odious Blackfyre supporter (I won't give more details, since that detail might -

"Take Donald Trump's name off of all the buildings he added it to" is a small ask, but I gotta be honest, I have no faith in Dems to meet even that demand and people are talking about prosecutions? lmao

Tack right = lose. That is a lesson that needs to be learned and if you don’t learn it, it’s not the fault of the people telling you they won’t have it. It’s yours.

foundational internet shit for me

holy shit. hell of an analysis

some of the best (maybe all of the best) music in the world comes from poor people with drum machines. the meme's argument is from non-musicians who don't like music but see it as a path to clout

the impossible number of games that release on Steam every day has been discourse for years why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make

I'm not even wondering wuther to go see it

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

correct! every post about fixing a broken games industry that involves [specific games industry tweaks] and not [destroying a speculation-mad executive class and using their bones for compost] is just wasting everyone's time

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

The only Dunk contest that matters this weekend involves a Trial of Seven.

my monthly live, "open mic"-styleambient night, Cable Management, has been growing nicely. I wasn't sure, with last night being VDay, whether there'd be anyone there, but we had enough performers that I had to simply do a five minute set at the end of the night right before close.

transphobes are losers, pass it on

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12