when i was a kid i didn't understand how this worked and i thought every CD that was manufactured had to have a monster put onto it. like they'd go up to ringo starr or whatever and ask him what monster he wants and he'd say "ouhh this DEfinitely has a "Battle Rocks" quality to it! peace and love.!"

i can’t stop thinking about this and i think it’s because it so easily illustrates the supposed problem LLM boosters want to solve, that being: sometimes things are difficult to do on brainpower alone

The fix for large studios canceling AAA games about killing the Klan or Apple pulling a show about hunting white supremacists is to buy that stuff from people who actually get to make their own creative decisions. Even if this doesn’t change stupid exec behavior, you have bought a better thing.

hell yeah, wouldn't change a thing

we can't have good things because as soon as you have like $25000 in the bank you instantly turn into a craven slime

Hey, I'm never voting for this asshole, ever, find someone else

What up hivemind! 👋 Let's fight back against the doom and gloom of the world today and do something productive together 🌈🌎😁 Put on a comfortable pair of shoes 👟 Fill your water bottle 🚰🥤 And grab a compass 🧭 We'll start at the top here and work our way down: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

you know xai cant make a good video game because nobody has ever made a good video game

Minneapolis is a dangerous hellhole, a killing field, and is incapable of running free and fair elections. Sincerely, the committee to reelect the guy who's been mayor for 8 years. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Yeah I do not love it here hahaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAHHHHH

the people who run this website think link is a bigger threat to the safety of the community than jesse singal and are willing to break their own rules to maintain the state of affairs they have created from that worldview

If you're confused about exactly how decentralised/decentralisable Bluesky is and what that means, here's a great not-too-long-or-intense article about it (it's not decentralised) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

While “Anyone can host this!” is being proved false in new ways, (see: being unable to see Link’s posts also why the fuck was he banned), here’s Jay in Wired’s Jul/Aug. “Bluesky’s for everyone (Trump)” “the last social identity.” Not new, and is the usual SV going-to-turn-right grifter bullshit

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

absolutely brutal

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

The great paradox of Bluesky is that the presence of Jesse Sıngal on here is a true negative, but also the best way to improve your experience here is to subscribe to the "Jesse Signal Followers Blocklist" bsky.app/profile/did:... , and if bluesky banned him that would no longer be a useful signal

Every single one of these major game publisher acquisitions has it come out in some form 'yeah leadership figured that shit was about to collapse under its own weight so they found some dimwits to buy them' and the ink wasn't even dry on the EA one before we found it out

Planet's dyin'. ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈valanche. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

$40/year for near-perfect HIV prevention is a good thing. Its list price in the US is $28,218. So. Yeah still unfathomably evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

I think that Sarah McBride should resign. I don't think there's any good she could possibly do in the future that would outweigh the harm she's done to the trans community just in the last nine months.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

what publications are putting out thoughtful, deeply reported work about this anti-trans crusade? certainly not the legacy pubs that usually fund thoughtful, deeply reported work

I don't understand how I'm supposed to boycott Disney when all their shit sucks so much

Something's felt real confusing about the Tone in the last 24 hours and I think what it is, is we're suddenly seeing white, cisgender, immigration-unmarked people sit bolt upright and start seeing the situation the way the rest of us have been seeing it for the last year++

Sure are a lot of dead canaries down here. Awful gross, but I suppose it doesn’t change the mining much!

Triangle Agency is so good and if you want to own a hardcover of it anytime soon, it you might want to order a copy immediately

Finally ranged touch is taking down the smug faux-intellectualism of C is for Cookie

Helps to think of the @nytimes.com as owned by something like the Tessier-Ashpools of William Gibson's NEUROMANCER.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

Really cool how I, and presumably a wide swath of Americans, received a push notification this morning blaming the shooting on my own highly stigmatized and extensively attacked minority, statements that will never be retracted or corrected where most people will ever see or hear about it

Somewhat genuinely losing my mind to see people who said “The Democrats campaigned on trans rights too much” now say “Sure this guy said men should protect the valor of our country by hunting trans people as if for sport, but if you aren’t mourning him, you’re evil.”

Hey so while some of you are wringing your hands over whether it’s okay that someone who wanted suffering or death for everyone who isn’t a cishet white man died, prominent right-wing people are calling for the jail or murder of “the left,” whoever that is. www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

it must be so easy and freeing to think of politics as an academic discourse that does not effect you or anyone you know ever

Did you know that your city almost definitely has a deal with the phone app "Libby" where you can enter your city library number and get access to an enormous number of ebooks? This is great because if there's a day you don't want to be on social media, it gives you somewhere to sink your attention.

I would never have thought replacing everyone at the FBI with podcasters and cigarette boat salesmen had downsides

called it

It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed

It’s the refusing to correctly gender someone with they/them pronouns, then referring to trans women with they/them pronouns, for me. Truly the classic that never falls out of style. Genuinely fuck this and no fucking thank you.

**blasts Atmosphere's "Say Shhh" with the windows open**

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...

My best friend, a lawyer, just texted me saying this is the legal equivalent of this Ralph Wiggum scene.

Just an FYI the article above HAS been updated as of September 5th! So be sure to check for your state and plan accordingly!