futurism.com/future-socie... lol

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

"So that's Theft, Fraud, Financial Misconduct, Political Misconduct and Misconduct in a public office. That's just the EU. In the UK, all of the above plus Treason, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion. The list probably goes on but that's enough of a start. Criminal Filth." via Timothy O'sullivan

Nearly every mobile game I’ve ever worked on is gone, “sunsetted” rather than made playable on current OSes. Their titles mean nothing to recruiters and hiring managers, let alone players. Even if players remember them fondly, they couldn’t play them anymore if they wanted to.

It's ok they'll be back together when Marvel resets the status quo to boost sales numbers

As it has been since the beginning, it's one rule for us and one rule for them. Responsibility for the climate crisis has been pushed hard onto the average person while the exponential growth of enterprise does thousands of times more damage than individuals.

“Every serious battlefield in the world uses parts of Palantir.” Once saw an ANZAC WWI veteran interview. 1 time, his unit took a German trench & in the attack he lost most his mates. Lining the trench were old cement bags - the same brand as in the ANZACs trenches These fuckers need stopping

Many video games already have €100 digital 'special' editions and if you think it's going to get better when they're not producing physical versions I've got bad news for you

Late stage capitalism is just making everything landlord coded and I can only hope that the EU pulls its finger out of its ass and gives consumers protection against it before it's 2045 and your toaster connects to the internet and you can't have toast without paying a subscription fee

As always

Share an 80s movie you will always love

I understand this feeling shitty, but it's a useful metaphor for a reason. The people who use it are not saying trans people's role is to die, they are simply saying fascists will target the most vulnerable first, and the ethics of using a small bird's death as a warning signal are already bad.

Having avoided it for a decade I picked up Final Fantasy XV and was playing it a bunch while I couldn't work in the heatwave. I'm fascinated by the people who enjoy this one because the characters are so surface level as to be meaningless.

Fuck the current NZ government.

We had about an hour of rain and life immediately feels a million percent better

Nothing is safe as long as your device is connected to the internet. They can block your discs playing at any time

This should be way bigger than Watergate or Lewinski and yet

The heat has made Europe sleepy so it's time for Russia to rustle some jimmies I suppose

These guys say a lot of things about the 'only hope' only to be proven wrong each time

Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

This is correct. The price isn’t about Valve. It is a wonderful little machine that Just Works, and its part logistics have been fucked beyond all recognition by our AI dipshit overlords. If you were Valve would you want this shit to be a thousand dollars

The stock market is just meaningless numbers and we can't keep letting them get away with adding fake value to themselves

They could at least have used a Buffy cast photo in the library lmao

Hell yeah that's fuckin right

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

This is like the story about Lady Gaga's management sending a cease and desist to Weird Al for a parody he wrote, then when Gaga herself heard it she loved it, but with a better gag at the end.

I successfully weeded these people out of my life by the time I left university, and anyway I just don't think there are many of these people in queer spaces

also it's author said this (which breaks my heart a little bit)

That last one is people who only have sexual experiences listening to Japanese post-rock

There is a certain type of dude who sees their body as a machine or desperately wants to see it that way because they are afraid of age and death, and it just fundamentally isn't. Bodies are weird things that simply don't comply to logic

It turns out what version of neurotic I am is 'most of them'

Seeing chocolate texturing and your brain saying 'that's like dick veins' is some next level brain worms

The British government needs to stop describing plans as 'Other Country Plus' because it only makes them seem stupider and less organised.

This ends with Musk buying America outright and I'm not even kidding. He's helped to gut the system and the only recourse will be to privatise the state.

It turns out astronauts, just like most people, are basic bitches

Seriously though, remember how in The Hobbit the guy who kept all the gold to himself was a giant flaming arsehole?

Congratulations to Elon on becoming the world’s first trillionaire from London 🔥

Dave Mustaine has the look, voice and stage presence of a grandma who is really annoyed to be disturbed for a family gathering but slowly warms to the attention and I was pretty into it

I'm a professional gardener and the amount of times I have to explain to people that things take time is phenomenal. I once had a guy ask me for a refund when I'd put like 200€ of grass seed and fertiliser down because it didn't look amazing immediately

As someone with ADHD I have always struggled with concentration but nonetheless I remain an albums over singles person. I think the actual problem is that the discovery mediums for music are so fragmented and algorithmically controlled that kids are just listening to the most surface level stuff

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One of the most important things we can do to destabilise Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's power is to acknowledge the Tommy Robinson branding as little as possible

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

It's amazing how often I want to react to things with a gif of Faith from Buffy when she says 'This is a thing of beauty, boss' and yet no one seems to have made this available for me.

i find it unfair that my body cannot be sustained by my special interests alone and that i have to, like, eat vegetables and get enough sleep when i just wanna digest interesting trivia