It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them. scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17... trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

The unspoken meaning of regular "If this gets leaked we're cooked lololol" jokes is to remind everyone that they're in a position to coerce or destroy anyone who gets out of line.

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Happy Columbo’s Day

Will forever think of Pattinson’s line about how you never hear about people going “method” to play kind, friendly people. It’s exclusively trotted out as an excuse to behave abominably.

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

Listen idk if it's going to break through at all, but if I were the media and the literal POPE was lecturing me for being a lying piece of shit, I may look in the mirror for a moment.

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same. They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_; Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

Perspective matters! @ourworldindata.org's report reveals how #MainstreamMedia amplifies rare tragedies while ignoring the real causes of death affecting millions. Fear sells, truth saves. Research and question what you see. #MediaBias 🔗 ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube. >> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

Best part of this is the subtle aside about how it took them so long to know to be mad about this because it’s not a movie for children

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

I'm going to need a clip of that last offsides penalty by FSU set to the Wilhelm Scream 🤣 #H2P

...seriously?

That’s it for A.I. then. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

it's not FOR us

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

BREAKING: Komeito said Friday it plans to leave the ruling camp, parting ways with the LDP and new President Sanae Takaichi after the LDP failed to accept the party’s proposal on political donations.

Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.

*bangs drum* There is absolutely a need for art that shocks, disturbs and challenges, but THIS is why I unashamedly continue to create 'pretty pictures' of natural scenes. The lovely messages I get from people who have felt better after looking at them tell me I'm doing something worthwhile.

I don't like weighing in about the latest tedious rounds of AI garbage but this has stuck in my mind. Shapiro perfrctly exhibits this profound misunderstanding of how creativity works that is an attitude that I feel drives the slop mills. How bewildering ignorant, how contemptuous of art this is.

what if there was another cat? say hi to Earl

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Fond memories of being a 17-year-old fan eagerly awaiting the new Star Wars movies, and suddenly finding yourself becoming a Jedi Knight in the first person. Between two spectacular (for this era) FMV sequences. Jedi Knight was released 28 years ago, and it feels like it was yesterday. 🥰

the full production is available to view on archive.org archive.org/details/xebp...

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

happy 20th birthday to the internets

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again. New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link): bit.ly/4h51JjF

now that i teach i cannot express enough how much i want to read whatever a 19 year old comes up with at 2am on their roommate's vyvanse. that nonsense is worth 100000x any AI output

Our FIRST-EVER #GDQueer schedule is OUT NOW!! 🌈🎉 Congratulations to our amazing runners, and a tremendous "thank you" to anyone and everyone who submitted a run for this brand-new event!! gamesdonequick.com/schedule/61

wife is laughing to the point of tears because the kids are watching Wreck It Ralph 2, and when the characters go to the Disney themed world, my kid said "i wish Disney World was real!" and i immediately responded "yes, that would be fun, but it's just an imaginary movie scene"

A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the US has been exposed as being run by an Eastern European man who has never visited the United States, and was accused of violating campaign finance laws.

the businesses that use relatively new data collection/collation technology to sell products strongly prefer if demographics are neatly segregated & tend to have a material interest in encouraging people to see themselves as in-or-out members of specific affinity groups in limited quantity

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.