It's unfortunate but the reality now is that reporters act like content creators and vice versa. Objectivity doesn't do well on social media so there's an incentive for them to act like wha they are not. It just leaves us more outraged than informed sadly.

Tumblr and its culture still resonates to this day.

I’ve been reading the Mistborn series instead of spending time on this site. I do recommend doing the same.

Amazing.

This, unfortunately is now how a lot of people on all sides think.

Physical miniature elements getting ready

Hey, remember when everyone got mad when the Dems tried to hire actual human influencers and all?

Went to school with kids like him and they were always like this. It wasn’t popularity nor bullying that made him this way, it was the world he grew up in. He’s the end result of W. Bush era conservative culture. He isn’t unique,just the most prominent example of that.

As I have said before, any Dem on the defense committees really should ask or lay into stuff like this. It’s a huge opening to look like they’re doing their job and holding the admin accountable. The reluctance to military matters hurts the dems in the long run.

Crows: “Well that makes my job easier.”

One of the things that 2077 does which not a lot pick up on is that Johnny is literally a walking anachronism of the 80’s cyberpunk genre. His hatred of a Japanese corp is an explicit example of the eras fear of Japan overtaking the US both economically and culturally.

I put it off for a couple of years, only to finish it somewhat recently. It’s an amazing game and at least they drop you right outside the final mission after it ends. No new game + tho.

I blame “your fave is problematic” for starting this. Whatever the original intention was, it’s now used as permission structure for harassment of creators who try to create actual complex narratives or things that upset people. Art suffers because the fear of harassment is real and dangerous.

SEE YALL TOMORROW

Being called out like this hurts

I do wonder just how long he was working on that book series because a law enforcement guy writing a pulp mystery novel is a old joke/trope like having a bottle of whiskey in their desk.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

What?

We're making federal employment unstable for at least a generation unfortunately.

Multiple generations worked until their bodies broke so their children didn't have to work those kind of jobs. Those kids made machines so others wouldn't have to suffer the same fate as their parents, changing the whole industry. It's more clean room nowadays than what it was.

Imagine the contractor for this job finding out that their job was taken by a bunch of beavers?

Good name alert

Someone has a pretty legitimate excuse not to buy stuff from their wife's very long shopping list now.

Literally made me lol

If the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy fails me I will resort to other measures.

This is true and it’s something that’s not really talked about given the implications.

Just pointing out either the truth or how things work is seen as rude/anti-social nowadays.

Competence* is becoming more and more left/lib coded in almost all fields. *actually knowing things.

As I've said before and will say again, Dems really need to gain more knowledge/experts in Military policy. There's serious issues that need to be either investigated especially with on base housing.

They funded ISIS with the smuggling.

Also somewhat related to the recent Bluesky TOS controversy. Almost every time a platform gets serious mainstream users, it bans/limits nsfw content to appeal to them. Patreon is a good example of that as their TOS changes pushed a lot of longtime creators off of it.

Ok we need to seriously stop brining memes into realspace. It’s getting seriously dumb.

Interesting.

It's the same thing as AI generated summaries, ironically. Everyone wants the cliff notes version rather than reading it and interpreting things for themselves.

We had a MFA doing foreign policy???

I’ve said before and will say again, that Dems really should hold hearings or at least ask leadership questions about stuff like this. The recent clips of Kash during a hearing went vial & showed how bad he is. They need to the same with defense/war guy.

The incuriosity is really offensive to me. We live in an age where you can learn almost anything with just a few clicks and no one wants to do that. Just laziness all around.

Bluesky, the text website for people who can't read

Ok that’s enough discourse for the day. Back to reading mistborn on my kindle.

… what

I saw a lot of 'who cares if it's fake, it helps our side so let's spread it" on twitter and it's slowly spreading over here.

Look, I’m a film major too but at least I’m self aware enough not to accept a job reporting on a subject I don’t have a degree nor any in depth knowledge of like economics nor business.

It's not a debate it's a performance.

It’s going get very ugly and very weird soon. If it hasn’t started already in smaller circles around the net.

What the heck happen to moderation? Sites used to be pretty good with dealing with shock and gore stuff but regressed in the past couple of years. Either they cut back on mod teams or they are deliberately allowing it to be posted.

This is true and the comments and quotes denying or pushing back on it are proving the thesis.

I fear the day that I will have to explain Pony Jar to my dad because the VP posted that.

The Original Sin of the internet was tolerating that kind of site.

Web 3.0 is going to invite only.