"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

I feel like a lot of these sad bastards are treating this duty like some last hurrah. One vacation of sadistic and libidinal pleasures before the hammer of reality comes back down, one way or another.

If you look at fascist participation as collective make-believe (ie people participate through vibes and suspension of disbelief instead of being convinced by evidence and reasoned argument), mockery can be a way to break up the play-act and spoil the game for the participants.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Homemade sauerkraut poisoned on Christmas

Homemade Gatorade rules

Happy Hanukkah Ravens Flock!

Been snowed in so long I don’t know what day it is.

The tiny burst of dopamine you get from cancelling plans pales in comparison to the serotonin you get from spending time with people who care for you and this is finally sinking in after decades of socially avoidant behavior

i have experienced the whiplash of going from homestarrunner and achewood to seeing 30k likes on an ai photo of eminem opening a homeless dog shelter for veterans.

How it’s spelled: timbre How they tell you to pronounce in US english (bad, hurts brain to do): tam-ber How I pronounce (good, feels correct): tum-bruh

liberals will jump down your throat for criticizing the democrats steady march rightward, they will jump at any chance to capitulate to right wing ideology, and in the same breath will say "i hate living in a country of slobbering racists". my friend, you ARE the slobbering racist!

When you stop paying the subscription fee they don't cancel it but they put your dead loved one in hell and you get unskippable video of them burning and begging for you to save them every single hour of the day.

Y’all are a bunch of babies fr fr. Ooh spooky spider web! Grow up

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

Love to see my team win at our first ever NFL game! 2-5 never felt so good!

Our Trans Anthem “I Can’t Be Your Girl” is now Live! youtu.be/aYtlrZ7ggN4?...

Some times you read something and just need to take it as a sign to log off for a while.

when anyone complains about ad hoc identities like "internet communist" or "winemom" they are complaining about fiction, ideological abstractions used to rationalize the world: "things are so because People Who Aren't Me think or do such and such." the job is to train this impulse on proper targets.

We really need to reconsider that legacy media columnists and opinion pundits are in fact disinformationists/propagandists who are paid to create make-believe realities for certain people (other elites, maybe) to get mad at

Good to see Mark Andrews doing his thing #Ravensflock

Folks spending 2 days coming up with ad hoc theories about the Ravens having some fatal flaw as if the Bills didn't score one of their late TDs on a ricochet off a teammate's hands on fourth down.

The notion that doing anything good in public ever was in itself proof you are actually a bad person because virtue signaling is the worst sin you can possibly commit has to be the most destructive psyop in human history.

Listen to us play our gay love anthem on 106.1 The Corner youtube.com/watch?v=27Ue...

Sadly it looks like he didn’t say it

If you don't know yet, Defector has been publishing some of the best culture writing out there with @brandyjensen.bsky.social at the wheel. Here, Mitch Therieau tells us the day the music died, and it wasn't February 3, 1959. defector.com/the-tragedy-...

Chris Rufo has made it explicit a couple times, but I still think it can be difficult to fully grasp how dishonesty and insincerity are the standard modes of communication for the right wing. They communicate by media manipulation, engage in that manipulation, and accept that they are manipulated

I might do a longer form write up on this but this third way language police scandal has revealed just how dependent the entire political and journalistic environment is steeped in right wing framing for everything.

when they're done unwinding the great society, the victories of the civil rights movement, and the new deal, they will simply move on to unwinding the political resolutions of the civil war

This is such a neat tactile concept

Sub Wrosa just dropped a new video for their song Recognize Me and if you have ears or eyes you will appreciate it immensely youtu.be/2ONXGlyCoho?...

Sub Wrosa just dropped a new video for their song Recognize Me and if you have ears or eyes you will appreciate it immensely youtu.be/2ONXGlyCoho?...

Same as every year: Durrutti Column’s Sketch for a Summer youtu.be/n8rv9AxbQgE?...

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL

The perpetual folly of confusing people who annoy you online with people at the actual levers of power

Jesus Christ Superstar is a great musical for people who think they don't like musicals (or Jesus)

Feels good to sell out a show for the first time

My band Roughshod was invited to Charlottesville to come on 106.1 The Corner for some new tunes and a chat: 1061thecorner.com/corner-loung...

If a bear attacked my dog I would assume it was my dogs fault and help the bear

Okay here's a hot take: When people complain about purity tests about gaza or trans people, they're really complaining that they're being forced to care about the underclass. When people talk about 'both sides' and how they hate 'liberals' and 'Democrats', this is often what they mean.

Thanks to @theassemblync.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to tell the full story about how neo-Nazi terror came to our doorstep, and how their harassment campaign exposes the long tentacles of the militant accelerationist community. www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-na...

My band Roughshod was invited to Charlottesville to come on 106.1 The Corner for some new tunes and a chat: 1061thecorner.com/corner-loung...

i posted this thread on the other app last yr but wanted to put it over here bc ive been thinking again about the iraq war and the "torture debate" which was really an eye opening event politically for me....

any time I notice two of something I have to say “there’s TWO of them” like Strong Bad

“It depends if you look Hispanic.” From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

"There's over 400 people here. There's no water to take a bath" "They only brought a meal once a day and it had maggots. They never take off the lights for 24 hours. The mosquitoes are as big as elephants" "I've gone three days without taking my medicine" "We're like rats in an experiment."