The Sword Interval #507 & 508

There’s always hope. Orban’s gone and within a few weeks CPAC Europe’s done, The Daily Wire is going out of business, The Onion owns Info Wars, we find out Tucker Carlson’s only got 7.2k subscribers, and more and more people are supporting parties that aren’t owned by billionaires.

Extra telling because he apparently “named” his version of Claude as Claudia. “Oh this object that exists to agree with and flatter me is also feminine in my mind, what a coincidence.” Hmm, okay, sure.

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too

The Scientologists harnessed Hollywood for power and now that same power will be their undoing

It delights me to no end that tech bros have more money than God but the things they actually want, friends, respect, a good sense of humor and now taste, cannot be bought. AI is the polar opposite of honed style and artisanal sensibility. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Earn Y'ur Spot Oilpunk cosmic fantasy set in the sodden trenches of a war torn Irish countryside. Follow Un’fella who (along with his fellow trenchers) at 6pm daily, must climb from their dugouts to stand exposed and fire six shots blindly into the smoke and fog of the battlefield kck.st/4voxGu4

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

good tweet

🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

GAMEOVERSE OFFICIALLY DROPS MAY 15! We are SO excited to share with you this special animated pilot that RubberRoss has been working on for years. We hope you enjoy it! The team has been working hard to make this an amazing watch 💖

Half of the AI data centers have been cancelled. A quarter are under review. And just 24% are being built as planned. The AI scam is dying.

i'll get asked at conventions "which of your lesser-known roles is your favorite" and my answer is always Brau-1589 from Pluto, this was a dream role from an all-time favorite manga of mine, i rarely get to play characters like this, still one of my favorite things i've ever done

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Trying to tell my 30-something self that in 15 years this Sergei Lukin painting would be me and all my suburban middle-class friends and family.

For me it's the inverse, the fact it was a normie is almost reassuring; it mirrors past actions following similar decay in other countries. One of few data points we have to confirm things genuinely are as bad as they seem and the elite mass psychosis pretending otherwise is not reality

It’s reassuring to see them go from promising to do The Purge after Charlie Kirk got killed to begging for Mara Lago North this time

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I love when humans respect animals

NEW: HOLY HELL. Remember when I asked how soon it would be before Blanche filed notice with the court that the shooting justifies the ballroom and the National Trust should drop its case?? Well late tonight, Blanche filed and INSANE motion to dissolve the court injunction. Check this out: 1/

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

This is excellent, and especially thrilling because it's the first thing I've read on this topic that gets past its supposed inevitability to assess what AI ed tech is actually like, and what it actually does. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it isn’t a ballroom It’s a bunker so he doesn’t have to leave the White House when his term is up. #CONGRESS!!! Get him out of that house now. .

Working on a small demo to show off the mode7 renderer for my custom game engine. github.com/joshuaskelly... #pixelart #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Back Street, Bolton, painting by Brian Barlow (b.1934).

this chart was life altering to me

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

At this point they have to create so much more than AGI. They have to turn whatever LLMs are into the next iPhone and the next Azure and the next Office Suite in two years. They’ve pissed off everyone and already spent so much money and it is in no way even remotely worth it

Superman/Spider-Man should be a regular monthly comic with 500+ issues already. these guys are so good together, they have so much chemistry.

please read witch hat

LRT holy shit

Sketchbook page coloured -

Painting by Emma May Riley, ‘Glass of Water’ 2013. Oil on Canvas. Size 23.6 W × 35.4 H

i cosplayed grace ashcroft from resident evil

Not a country music fan, but this is 🔥

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

UNDERGROWTH - Sanjuro is granted an audience with the King of Decay.

i think the gamecube has the best logo of any console. just look at it. it's a cube that's a G and the negative space in the G is a C

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”