AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: only Autistic people are getting Raptured Wednesday.

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

Going with an alien abduction video while foreign visitors to GDC are at risk of being grabbed by ICE is... I don't even know. Best case, some very dark humor that they talked themselves into?

I feel like anything about GDC 'rebranding/reinventing' itself cannot earnestly be discussed without addressing it continuing to be held in a country with a fascist regime that is indiscriminately targeting, jailing and disappearing foreigners. Seriously, I don't think anything else really matters?

Ahhh okay. Post-2020 almost all deal-making happens outside of Moscone; big companies aren’t bothering with passes any more and small devs are priced out. This is trying to entice the big dogs out of their rented conference rooms. All bizdev all the time.

GDC is still being held in the United States, which makes it incredibly unsafe for international attendance. It hasn’t even moved to a cheaper city. Game looks the same to me.

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

In Smallville, the only reason to believe Clark is a fundamentally selfless person is because of the meta-knowledge that he becomes Superman; the only reason (initially) not to trust Lex is the meta-knowledge that he becomes the supervillain Lex Luthor. Their actions oppose their destinies!!

Smallville is a fascinating show because the fundamental question at the heart of it is whether Clark can actually be considered a Good Person when his selfishness and paranoia hurts everyone around him and directly creates his most vile enemy, but the show never really acknowledges it

People knew how to make television in the early 2000s, man. The most mid shows would have lighting and cinematography that ran circles around everything today except prestige streaming stuff. AND the shows were given enough seasons to slow burn character development and plot lines

What if Colbert ended up being our Churchill? What if the South Park Guys end up like two white American Nelson Mandelas? What if AOC ends up being our own personal Margaret Thatcher? What if Zohran becomes Mugabe? What if Eric Adams stepped into his destiny as America’s Nikita Khrushchev???

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

Cancel Disney plus, get Dropout

Having a 16-year-old in the year 2025 is wild. What do you mean I’m discovering that they stole my favorite jacket to wear to school today by seeing it in a 10-part IG story about transphobic microaggressions

i don’t think omnipresent right wing shrieking is working in their favor

And now for his next trick, David Copperfield is going to make an FBI file disappear!

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

This is extortion

The released a new search tool as part of their AI Watchdog Series that will let you search multiple datasets at once. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

In the classic Gray’s Anatomy storyline “Patient X,” Izzy Stevens gets a blood test that basically tells her that she’s chock full o’cancer, but not where the cancer is. There’s no way that’s based on medical science, right? Why wouldn’t we have “cancer somewhere” included in a basic blood screen?

The Palestine Games bundle that we put Spirit Swap in is live with all proceeds going to Gaza relief efforts! 400 games! Please support it if you can and get yourself awash in games by people who also care, good people of the world!

women will tell you it has been more than a decade, but who ever listens to us lol

They have class solidarity, do you?

WaPost confirming repeatedly what we already knew: best use of their pub is your bird cage. @karenattiah.bsky.social is one of the best & smartest people on my timeline. I hope JB + WP pay a huge financial penalty for this AND that Karen gets a job somewhere where she is supported and amplified.

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Just a note that given the bilingual nature of this ask, my collaborator @cheetosontoast.bsky.social and will be prioritizing Japanese designers and Japanese speakers! So if that applies to you pls apply to my post below or Jenny’s here if Japanese is easier: bsky.app/profile/chee...

If you are a brand rep from a watch, sneaker, hot chocolate, or luxury bag purveyor: send me free shit and I will be so normal about it on my YouTube channel about knitting. I promise

It feels like the Times shifted hard into “actually we will determine reality” mode after 10/7 and never came back. Luigi shit, mayor’s race, now this. Reporting from a world that doesn’t exist, for no one.

Had a legit brand reach out to me for a partnership with my tiny YouTube channel offering free stuff. The email came from a Gmail account so I went to the website, used the contact form, and alerted them to the scam. Just got a reply: “That’s us! :) Thanks for checking” Time to walk into the sea!

Why would you go to a separate website, login, and check a ledger that lists who precisely has blocked you on this website and when?? Do you also stare deeply into port-a-potty toilet holes? Just gazing at the kind of abyss that can never gaze back because its eyes are crusted shut.

let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex

natty alan ritchson as aquaman in smallville. lol. lmao

We’re watching an ancient episode of Smallville and it features a natty twink Alan Ritchson as Aquaman. It’s wild

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Can't wait for everyone who's so vocally opposed to political violence to come out against this common form of it, as well as the people (both living and dead) who've delighted in carrying it out. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas...

"Since when have American flags been lowered to half-mast for a ragebait YouTuber? Why would a podcaster who never held office deserve a Capitol monument? And why are elected Democrats and institutions participating in and encouraging this?"

Numerous journalists and writers purged today for posting factually about a slain regime ally, a bomb threat at the DNC HQ, 6 HBCUs closed due to bomb threats, shots fired at the Naval Academy, and that's just today.

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson

Charlie Kirk hated the concept of empathy and thought it was dangerous, so the best possible way to honor his legacy is to make jokes about how great it is that he’s dead. It’s what he would have wanted.

whats your gender identity haha yeah i know right no like what’s your label what do you identify as ahhh no thanks but i appreciate the offer

The proliferation of “AI for productivity” slop is the direct result of the YouTubeification of the concept of “productivity.” Being “productive” now doesn’t have anything to do with the quality of what you do. Fucking around doing a high volume of whatever = productivity. Ali Abdaal ass reasoning

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Send him to prison. Send all of them to prison. You can legally arrest more than one pedo at a time, no matter what Fox News and the NYT says. It’s not an either or situation.

In the book and movie Primary Colors there’s a big plot point about the Bill Clinton character raping a 17 year old girl. This motherfucker has been on the lamb in public for thirty years.

in exchange for a lucrative private-sector job, I, too, will commit to not entering the 2025 mayoral race

I want to talk about this real quick because I already know what people are gonna say and: this fucking matters. Sabrina Carpenter is HUGE with teens/tweens in particular and a bunch of little trans kids saw their idol get up on stage, ping at them, and say “I love *you*, specifically.”