Love taking my dog out for a night pee and walking out to five fucking APD cruisers lined up in the parking lot. It's all local PD and they didn't freak about my being close so I don't think this is ICE, but wtf

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

If you want to distribute free speech devices to your neighbors, I can help you set up a whistle kit event where I provide all materials except the space and people

There is straight up no genAI for games industry QA. it does not exist. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying to you. The best it can do is use GPT to populate scripted test plans or do engineering-level unit tests on code simulations. That doesn't cut it for games.

I long for the shop simulator game that puts US bills and coins in the correct order. It's *always* backwards and I spent far too much of my life standing at registers to not find it an unfortunate buzzkill.

Jesus, love to live in the only county in Texas that voted against Prop 15. I guess the Texan need to murder trans children was worth writing a constitutional amendment that will fucking obliterate family court custody hearings in perpetuity.

City of Sickos

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Bluesky rn

“I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life” 💀

MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS

The re-segregation of America - for there is no other term for what is happening - is happening quietly and quickly, not through the courts and Congress but through the consent of private citizens who wanted it anyway

This is one of the many incidents we cover in our latest investigation into potential breach of the TRO in place in Illinois. The footage speaks for itself.

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

We did this partially because I have run into several conversations in the past couple years where Fisher is taken to be the answer to lots of questions I just don’t think he was trying to address, and this is partially me trying to work through that.

A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...

Not seeing much on Bluesky vs Twitter but St. Elizabeth parish in Jamaica is devastated after Hurricane Melissa made landfall there yesterday. This is the government’s official support site, which is quite well organized.

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

it's giving Hugo Boss. and I mean that in every way.

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

“Women wanna fuck monsters and men wanna fuck little holograms” - the Shelved by Genre folks telling it like it is

This means it's nuking the undergrad programs within the next couple years bc they're massively phasing out their central labor force. No PhD students means nobody is teaching these classes, running labs, or supporting TT profs teaching massive lectures.

Humanities and social sciences were a canary in the coal mine; no discipline is safe when the university is viewed primarily as a money-making venture.

Sucks that's one more iron out of the "fuck up the DNC" fire but man I knew something felt off about Platner. Getting a Nazi tattoo on deployment is the least surprising shit that could happen to a Marine vet.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

This entire thread is the reason people need to learn, and properly use, the two definitions of "performative." 1. Bringing something into being by speech or action (linguistics/social theory) 2. To express something inauthentically to boost one's image (political discourse)

Anyone who's covered a wrestling beat before, now is your moment.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

"I hope they lower the curtain soon." "You think the story's over?" "No but at least we'll have a satisfying transition!!" "BOHOHOHOHOHO"

This post is funny, but it just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of feminine labor and craft. Spinsters dismantled the Spinning Jenny by hand. Suffragettes used acid and bombs to attack politicians. Militant textile workers went on strike by the tens of thousands.

lol. lmao, even.

Honestly a good way of getting through Butler is to hear her writing conversationally in her voice. She pauses a lot and gives each statement breathing room.

the dark, satanic mill of the present is the data center, perhaps more heinous than those blake encountered because they are now built to produce nothing but their own effluent

I’M BACK TO WORK THIS WEEK AND WE JUST MADE THE GAME STRUCTURE OF SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR A FUSION OF MARIO KART AND I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT

Y'know, it's the stangest thing; Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being told not to come to Aston Villa because of a security concern that they might be attacked is the top story on BBC News today But no mention at all that I can see that IDF began breaking the ceasefire basically immediately

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

I will never in my life cite or reference Heidegger and his branch of Phenomenology in my work. The world does not need to preserve the Nazi phenomenological tradition. It has nothing to offer the world. Levinas is right there as an alternative.

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

The BEST narrative game of 2024 will soon be out on EVERY major platform so to those of you who haven't played it yet you fuckers are OUT of EXCUSES

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

I love how much every animal on planet earth goes apeshit for gourds

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing