important note from libcrusher:

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents? me: save to desktop microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures? me: save to desktop microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads? me: desktop

this is very good — lol, lmao —

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picking a building, bringing a chopper down on it, and detaining every single person inside... we are so deep into fascism, it's hard to come to terms with

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This whole section really.

I love environmental storytelling in dystopian sci-fi games.

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

We're supposed to pretend that we are part of a system, paying in to it, working for it, that stopped paying the supposed benefits to necessitate the system Also culturally, spiritually, materially we get the punishment for this system's failure from the people who have reaped its final rewards

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Every managing editor at the big pubs sending out this helpful slide deck to their team because they fired the reporters and kept their brunch buddies

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.

wait I made it better

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

while we were talking about the Naked Gun movies on my show today i realized that Liam Neeson's character is the son of the two characters in the first one, and that was 1988 and during the baseball season. he was probably born in 1989, so he's canonically like 35-36 years old.

through the miracle of modern technology we have made one of the most beautiful and influential movies of all time look like microwaved shit

In my most blatant cry for help yet I watched and reviewed Smurfs (2025) johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/smurfs-2025

When obituaries go awry. Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

*extremely going to hell with extreme prejudice voice* died WITH starvation or OF starvation?

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

AI won’t just be used to replace you. AI will be used to falsely incriminate you. AI will be used to kill you, and anyone who is pro-generative AI is susceptible of supporting that.

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

just saw a commercial featuring a dude who said he’s a marketer in Seattle, and sometimes he hits a wall creatively, so he likes using an A.I. tool to write marketing materials for him. in a just world, this would be a fireable offense and it would be too humiliating to admit this in public

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell. In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

activision put at least 60% of the entire western video game industry workforce on CoD so that they could make this

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Dominos casually implying that if their employee doesn’t cut the pizza right, the employee gets shot in the head execution style

Good day as any to delete Facebook, Instagram, and/or Threads if you have not already The fact that Meta will not rule out using private photos on your camera roll to train AI is abominable, full stop futurism.com/meta-sketchy...

They are so unbelievably and terribly desperate. You don’t do things like this unless you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue and adoption. This is the ultimate form of the tech industry: a despicable, wretched, entitled, destructive, abusive digital despot that wants to con your kids.

They're literally doing the meme

The kids in season 5 of Stranger Things

We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.