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The fundamental issue with the media is that we tax physical income but not psychic wages. Oh you wanna run a bunch of stories that don't generate revenue but bash on the outgroup, you best believe the government is going to take a cut of the self satisfaction there. It's basic Pigouvian theory

This is the kind of thing that would show up in Moral Education for milscifi book where everyone who defects from the amount that the officers secretly agreed to is cashiered for putting themselves ahead of the service.

The one thing that links all these people together is that they view journalism as transactional, a ledger balancing exercise. You can't ever say a piece was bad, you have to show it cancels out their other work as well, as if doing a good piece or two gets you a hall pass

Thinking about this for no reasons at all

Folks, we've done it. We've given a blood clot in the brain a microphone

"It appears our forces previously deploying around Iran are now redeploying to... the Supreme Court Building?"

No! I just got the lease to take over the old Lordstown auto plant to make jeans you can work out in! We stopped importing workout jeans from Vietnam last year. We were going to do a press event where RFK Jr would deadlift 95 pounds shirtless in our jeans, I’m ruined!!!

AND I JUST BROKE GROUND ON MY MANLY MANUFACTURING FACTORY!

someone at bluepoint was working on a Bloodborne remake. This could not stand

How I tend to think about this, stolen from tumblr

I recently received “The Bomber Mafia” as a birthday gift (heh). It was bad, so bad that I believe it cannot be read as a reliable account of strategic bombing in World War II. In so many ways, it demonstrates the worst tendencies of the “pop history” genre. My review (and latest)⬇️

Golden Compass I think? They just fucked it up so hard that not even armored bears could fix it.

You know the Star Wars ANH novelization will fall on the wrong side of that line later this year to give you an idea of how long ago 50 years is.

Weekly update: LARGE LAD AND BALD BOY is still great

Going to go slay Edwaagh IV, the Duke of Orc, and restart the Hundred Years War

The Office: Death Star (-1BBY) is money being left on the table folks.

It is late 2026. Enraged at current company leadership, David Ellison has ordered Changes at Paramount. New CEO Bari Weiss has commissioned a new Star Trek that is more in line with "company values " I need your writer's room pitches or the healthcare policy gets it

Painted a Battlemech instead of Discoursing

"People being aggressive and mean to me on bsky is making me less likely to support their candidate" said the most antisocial crybully known to man

It's a bit "Man Always Gets Little Rush Out Of Telling People John Lennon Beat Wife" but I just love popping the bubble on what happened to Sparta after said If.

A politician sees an activist arguing with a Stalinist on social media and asks what the activst is after. He says he's trying to get more votes for liberal policy and the politician joins the argument.

The longer any discussion in a fan space goes on, the chance someone attempts to turn an opinion on quality into being representative of a political tendency approaches 100%.

The thing with Musk is that he really is a man completely without physical culture, desperately holding onto the idea of what an 18 year old on Reddit in 2010 thinks is cool. He can't even be bothered to play his own video games! But this is by his own choice

I do not like how "this is AI written, according to AI" is becoming the standard for telling something is fake rage bait instead of "I'm not a gullible fucking idiot."

Not a full thaw yet but it's getting there

Long Alexandria is coming. you cannot escape

And they are all in your mentions

"It's dangerous to go alone, take this Costco membership card"

Sometimes, a good name is the most important thing.

I'm sorry, you gotta give Fivey Fox back to Nate Silver, he cannot be being seen with this kind of dumb take in tow

Excuse me, Trauma Team Operator

Finally getting into the master's toolshed and wow, it's like a Harbor Freight catalog in here

Actually kind of a perfect choice for Monologues Mike

Post a banger that's not in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bX...

Okay hear me out; Romulan Flashman. We follow a young Romulan officer who was sent to join Starfleet as part of a diplomatic thawing and general exchange that *everybody knows is a spy.* Except they basically keep falling backwards into Heroic Kirk Action despite their best efforts to the contrary.

The dentist should not be allowed to have Hurts So Good on the speaker system

Feeling my way around a law of social media which is that any post about someone else's tweets which you feel the need to add "please do not harass this person" should simply not be made in the first place. The large poster eye of Sauron is real, hell, the small time poster eye of Sauron is too.

The glorious birth of a Medusa Head as it emerges to leave for its traditional clocktower

I do think there's a real demand for serial written fiction as seen by the explosion of fanfic and royal road slop over the past decades. The main question of how you create a logistical stream for providing it and paying authors without becoming a lowest denomination service

We're going to shrink the GOP caucus so much you can drown it in a bathtub

Hedge Knight is rediscovering the ancient art of "what if we just did good low level character work in a bounded setting" and goddamn if I ain't enjoying it.

I guess the way I'd sum up the whole discourse is that I see no good value in practicing cruelty but that does not seem to be a shared opinion when it comes to how we deal with AI.

Okay now I'm worried what a good producer could do with AI

The Nazis entered this cycle under the rather childish delusion that they were going to redistrict everybody else and nobody was going to redistrict them. They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

Long Alexandria coming for you

One day society will rise up from the tyranny of CACs

Even if it's delivered by DoorDash you often save 20% straight up by using their site as they don't have to pay the pass through fee

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...