Yeah so if this is going to impact you, you should be looking at after Xmas sales now to replace. I know someone is going to be like 'just install a different OS' and people who can do that, know how to do that, can work with that...have done that already I'm sure.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

btw i talk about this all the time and i never get interviewed about how trying hormones that didn't work for me was a good and clarifying experience that i think should be more accessible! that's because the people who control the narrative about this shit are hatemongering transphobic monsters

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

I love the ~idea~ of being able to interact with a character and get something truly novel and unexpected out of the experience. Like, it ~would~ be neat to go to Westworld and get lost in the 'realness' of the characters, try to push the systems to build an adventure. But LLMs can't do that

more lucrative than accusing Liz Warren of nearly fucking a marine to death, I suppose

Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942

god bless us everyone @thatpeteraustin.bsky.social @confuseddude.bsky.social

To me, nothing illustrates Western Christianity more clearly than a ham on Jesus’s birthday. Y’all are hilarious.

Thank you! Some of my favorites:

Yooo! Watch then vote! #iHunt is such a good short! Put it back in first place where it belongs!

I know I have a lot of very cool mutuals in the Washington-Baltimore area. I already have a cat and I think Ripley would murder me in my sleep if I got a second, so consider Angelo!!

Get yourself a festive cryptid with some decent politics

I'm finally starting season 2 of "Finding Mr. Christmas," the Hallmark reality show where the most wholesome, non-toxic men in America compete for the chance to be a Christmas movie star (somehow a real job), judged by a gay man and Barbra Jean from "Reba" it's the greatest show you're not watching

the next mavis beacon game should be a soulsborne

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

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Big Tech is offering you a Faustian bargain. It promises to remove all the friction from life, to keep you from having to think or study, and the result is your brain will become pudding, you’ll become incapable of creativity or communication. They want to make you a non-person.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Ahahaha my time has come!!! Let's do this!!! I'm a bit pressed for time rn, so I'll probably do a couple now, and the rest over the weekend (G-d willing). A lot of puzzle / thinky games, narrative-focused, queer stuff will follow (not every game is all of these, but some definitely are!)

I'm seeking freelance work asap I have over a decade of experience shooting & editing docs, ads, features, shorts, digital presentations, trailers, music videos. While my main focus is post I'm also a reliable gaffer, grip, swing & 2nd A/C and have built a handful of sets

This video taught me I was not hating to my true potential

This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".

cool, cool cool

“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”

You know what you can use to generate ideas? A brain. I don't believe people when they say they need this abysmal tech to generate ideas, I think they're lying, but people are so disgusted with the tech being used to replace people's jobs, they don't exactly want to admit to what they're doing.

This particular shot, is up there with Renée Jeanne Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc as far as Im concerned. The power of the close up defined in its parameters.

This filled a good half-hour rant I had last night for an upcoming thing. Conservative (and crypto-fascist and fascist--broadly reactionary) work is entirely post hoc justification for resentment. And any analysis of their thought must begin and end there: it's just not that deep, broad or complex

yes

and the frame? fatal

the kavernacles latest video on mr beast is missing something and its that the saudi government propaganda in question is *for westerners.* i think people need to stop acting like this is about the saudis doing propaganda *for saudis* because it literally is not

also, johnny health take the estrogen, jfc

I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say. The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.

Ed Ruscha, "Do as Told or Suffer," 2001

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons