This is purely financial. Video generation is astronomically expensive in terms of compute without any actual use cases or potential cash flow. They were staring down the barrel of a $5+ billion bonfire of cash annually to make AI slop. They're already hurting for cash as the bubble starts to pop.

ABC staff are on strike. Perfect time to bring back the test card, clock and bunny, seen here in 1983

You got a license for that gun, Chekov?

Loudly.

AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC: So what's the main takeaway from the election in SA? NEWS CHANNELS: Yeah it was a landslide. PUBLIC: Oh that's great for who? CHANNEL 7: ???? PUBLIC: FOR WHO, CHANNEL 7?

ABC News: "We understand Pauline Hanson has been speaking at the One Nation event. Let's bring you some of that now." Pauline Hanson: [incomprehensible swamp monster noises] Yeah, sounds about right to be honest... #AusPol #SAParli #SAVotes

Big if true.

Perfect

Totally exonerated! no wrongdoing!

Afroman won!!!

Still trying to get a job as the guy who wrote the cover gags on "Just Shoot Me".

For a couple of months I had to take a client to church each week. Each Sunday people would be invited to shake the hand of people nearby and wish them a peaceful week. I don’t remember much of the texts that were read, but I remember how shaking people’s hands made me feel

Is Avatar the second ever trilogy to win Oscars for each entry?

MICHAEL B WINNING. What a legend.

SINNERMATOGRAPHY! #oscars

#Oscars LAWNMOWER MAN MENTIONED:

Getty captured the Shohei Ohtani bat flip

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Lol

It was a good week

lol

Can this be a solution?

This is how the next Godzilla should start.

been having a rough day glad there's YouTube to cheer me up.

Fuck you I don't care how niche this is

If you showed this to someone in 2002, they would have shit their pants with laughter.

If Bluesky goes I’m done with social media which is probably for the best cause i waste so much of my time on it

Here, hear it from the man himself.

Ads and racist algorithms are coming.

"What does [term] mean to you?" "Whatever the lawyers say it needs to mean."

the long awaited Windows NT Team vaporwave edit has arrived

Happy 12th year anniversary to 슈퍼마켓Yes! We’re Open by 식료품groceries / @jpegstripes.bsky.social ! 🍎🍊🫑🥦

NEW: I got my hands on a Palantir-Department of Defence contract that outlines how the Trump-aligned tech company has embedded staff in Defence, leaves a carve-out for training on Australian data, and has a number of quite generous contract conditions. www.crikey.com.au/20...

It sucks that AI for most people now are just "shitty caricatures you'd get at the beach but make me look like I'm fuckable" - it looks shit and you still look like shit - no one thinks you look like this, Scott.

The belief in trans rights entering the median voters body as Trump makes gas cost $8/gallon

holy shit

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

I'd also like to nominate "SPECS OFFENDERS". Thank you, I yield my time.

Rolling Stone is publishing pro-war advertorials by an Israeli government agent now:

Referring to my Twilight Years as 2005-2012

Reported this two weeks ago

Baudrillard: totally exonerated, no wrong doing

True Art

Boomer parents treat group chats like their diaries

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal