returning to sianne ngai for the homestuck book and realizing yes we do indeed now live in the the age of gimmickmaxxing

AI really is an attempt by middle managers and car salesmen to seize art

Me making art: cmon guys what do want to see??

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Always blown away by how much different transhet people’s lives are

I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I keep seeing "I made trans women watch [movie where man pretends to be a woman]" videos on youtube and uh what are we doing gang?

AI music is so detestable

This is genuinely the attitude of so many Dems

DAWs cheaper than 1 year of Suno Premier Plan: Acid Pro Audacity BandLab Bitwig (Edu) Cakewalk Cubase Elements Cubase Artist (Edu) FL Studio Producer Korg Gadget GarageBand Ableton Live Intro Logic Pro Mixbus Mixcraft Pro Tools First Reaper Reason Intro Sonar Professional Soundtrap Studio One Artist

Contrapoints forever on the wrong side of every issue

Definitely some history being rewritten when people act like DHS wasn't always unpopular and seen as authoritarian by large swaths of the population

There are free DAWs, free VSTs, pretty much everything you need to make music on a computer, which they assume you already own, are available for free or very little. The only thing Suno is doing is stealing the rewarding parts of music-making from you. It's a vending machine, not a kitchen.

That new Worm is killer

I would die for 80s sax solos

I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.

Why do the biggest proponents of white culture not know anything about it? Was there any important early Dutch, French, or Spanish presence in or influence on what’s now the United States? Should you have to be able to pass a 4th grade history quiz to have a billion dollars?

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

the Black Panthers were right

“Irish origin” lol okay bud

Is there a curling anime yet? Would go so hard

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

It genuinely took me 10 minutes to remember who Milo is. Great 10 minutes

Happy Valentines Day from conservative men

That Wurthering Heights adaptation sounds wretched

Straight people trying to have takes on Heated Rivalry is pretty cringe ngl

respectful

With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online

The Italian goalie in the game against the US today holy shit

In this context Rise of Skywalker is the man's masterpiece

i often think about this review

Never gets old when randos in the wild have heard of BV. In my head we’re still a shitty local band (even if we haven’t been local to anywhere in 7 years lol)

Did people think The Pitt was pro ai? lol

The Pitt so good dude

“National attention on Minnesota has waned with the departure of Bovino and rhetoric by Homan that things are de-escalating,” the group noted, but recent data and reports from commuters in the field did not support those conclusions.

After doing a little querying you realize there is literally no rhyme or reason to what gets published lol

I feel like ai defenders are too embarrassed to just come out and say "yeah you could do everything ai does before ai but search engines didn't make me feel like a special little boy"

Funny the consensus reaction to Bobby Kotick being in the Files is "yeah duh"

The on ice cameras for Olympic hockey are hilarious

Excited for a Project Hail Mary movie. [Slight spoilers for the book] We need a human/alien buddy comedy right now

lol okay

Nothing sluttier than that little slide curlers do

I think one of the most unjustified career reappraisals is M Knight Shyamalan. I get tricked into watching his new stuff every time someone’s like “it’s good actually” and usually it sucks ass

Who leaves it in default??

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.