very good take

One must imagine John le Carré blowing his fucking brains out

This rules. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xYY78p/

this made my soul ache

i often think about this review

retvrn

what a loss. vale

There has always been a huge corpus of slop in every genre of publishing, children's entertainment, gaming etc. where high volume, low cost is the way to profit on low margin - AI is just making this extremely visible

Loaded up this week's Critical Distance and was immediately hit with this oof

A sampling of show broadside posters for McKie's Lounge.

this is easily one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. it’s so funny I’m willing to actually post something on bluesky

Man the implication that somewhere deep in our brain there is a “see tiny people all over the place” button and a mushroom can press it, that’s deeply unsettling.

the exception here is balatro which is maths

Fascinated by those 5% in the dem column.

Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

some french dude opened a street cart on a back alley in Bangkok and would smash out the most incredible steaks at lunchtime

magnificent. beautiful

Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons." Here is her winning poem: www.porkopolis.org/pig_poet/ren...

I’ve just had a sudden insight into the human condition: it’s bad

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:

if you gave every person on earth a chance to guess the reveal here there would not be a single correct answer

sorry to some folks, but if we want games to be viewed as consequential art and not products - eventually game development at large is going to have to move past the realm of linkedin, forbes 30 under 30, how to market your game, professional business conference stuff and into something else.

@auntydonnaboys.bsky.social Christmas books are out and the kids are requesting the "bleeeurrrggg" book on the regular 🎄

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

for my 2025 recap top song, google chose a song I've never heard before and certainly wasn't aware of, in a language I don't speak. not entirely sure what happened there

Never seen anything like this is my god damn life

A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:

whoops, bye cloudflare

top 5 movie genres: - the bureaucrats are competent, everything goes horribly wrong - that dude is a fucking idiot, everything goes horribly wrong - some things blow up, there is a musical interlude with lots of neon - spies drink tea and it's raining - in space, everything goes horribly wrong

Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile. He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.

The time is out of joint #AISlop clocks.brianmoore.com

ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.

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is an entire tub of elote dip lunch? y/y

NEVER FORGET: If you keep a can of reddiwhip (or whatever equiv you like) in your fridge you can just grab it and have a quick bit of whipped cream whenever you like. It's just a thing you can do.

lol, far out

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

"Person who received an important call right when they were about to eat" x.com/dailyportalz...

Happy birthday Cow Tools! Here’s Gary Larson explaining how it made him “want to crawl into a hole somewhere and die”