This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

Sometimes technology is beautiful

two things are true: in a remote setting, on a dark night, the deep sky is a truly profound experience that has influenced human philosophy, faith and religion for countless generations and that experience got absolutely rinsed by the first RCA 10 inch television

“need the courage” what

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN NEXT TO ME ON PLANE: that music you’re listening to at max volume in your headphones sounds really interesting, what is it? ME: heh, it’s called “Infinity Rage” and it’s from Hajimari no Kiseki, but you might know it as Trails into Reverie HER: wow

It's such a tell on all these people that they saw Epstein as the perfect embodiment of urbane decadence. He couldn't spell, he had little sex competitions with gutter misogynists, his interior design sense was awful, there is no evidence whatsoever that he was smart or funny

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

🤣 Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth... (gift link)

First movie I saw this year was The Conversation, and I didn't top it. Literally perfect.

I grew up on Michael Crichton paperbacks with the embossed titles. Mass market paperbacks circa 1985-95 just scream comfort reading to me.

"For sale: Kegel exercise weights, one missing." - Ernest Hemingway

Send help have become trapped by this AI animal alphabet source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

i stand by this statement every year

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. rob norris’s classic “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) suggests the VU had just been fired by cafe wha?, so maybe an earlier gig? great local coverage, too!

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney animated or Pixar.

And this, ladies & gentlemen, is why large language models are totally beside the point. But good luck.

"Return of the Jedi" poster from Hungary. Artwork by Tibor Helényi.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Drinking Manhattans and playing Bloodborne like it's 2015

The collection is finally out of the storage box it's been living in for almost eight years

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Tired of this

Yes

Having seen this, I’ve got to say, the KPop Demon Hunter fans need to re-discover Final Fantasy X-2, where you play a girl band who changes fighting classes by changing dresses and has no less than two concerts on the way to saving the world from a giant weapon.

Happy Thanksgiving, America

As a person who grew up watching Red Dwarf, it's going to be very hard to not laugh every time I walk into my kitchen and see this toaster my wife picked out

imagine being this big of a fuckin loser

evergreen

They line up perfectly.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.

We're living in hell

when the full Olivia Nuzzi book streets Bluesky is going to collectively experience something akin to the ecstasies of the Bacchae

homeowners associations are so annoying. what do you mean the incessant noise pollution from lawn care 200 times a week is preferable to growing ecologically beneficial and pretty wild grasses and flowers. shut the fuck up!!!! i hope whoever invented leaf blowers is rotting in hell!!!

lol. lmao, even

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

WCW VS. NWO: WORLD TOUR AKI CORPORATION 1997 N64

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Roses are red I am erect

Once more, for old times’ sake