if people hadn't spent decades being happy with living inside Brave New World and only ever worrying about 1984 happening, maybe 1984 wouldn't be happening gentle systems of control always turn harsh when the Soma runs out and people stop believing the myth of freedom control adapts power persists

ok but what happens when half of the voting population develops ai psychosis

solid video every american should watch, along with every non-american trying to figure out why america is the way it is youtu.be/LJefxb2dSMY?...

accounts created 18+ years ago should be exempt from "age verification" like, i've been on the internet a long time most of my accounts are old enough to regret the choices they made in their early 20s, and have begun developing unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with a bleak and miserable future

get to the ballroom!

just made a typo with the word important, leaving out the first T...but it's cool because i'm coining a new word. i have a license for that imporant (adj.) an impotent rant; usually characterized by lots of screaming or ALL CAPS TYPING, with overly dramatic phrasing, and a complete lack of results

the only thing you need to know to understand congress is that, given the rare opportunity to objectively and exponentially improve literally everything about the country for everyone living in it by simply leaving office and abandoning their political career, no representative would do it not one

the technical term is trickle-down foolonomics

i'm not from the great north or anything, but i feel like doug ford is the dane cook of "we got trump at home" of canada i'm not sure if any of that makes sense, but i'm somehow also positive it does

imagine reporting on this Molyneux take and not even mentioning Project Milo

Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World opened on this day in 1998, officially making it older than Disney World itself was when Animal Kingdom opened and everything costs ten times as much now, you have to be on your phone the entire time, and perks that used to be free are paywalled magical

capcom has to know they could've prevented a lot of the controversy around pragmata by simply giving the robot kid pants and shoes the game itself and parenting bits are pretty wholesome, but the design choice is questionable at best "her battery charges through her feet" is a stupid justification

ok, louder this time: age verification isn't about age verification it's about surveillance, enforcement, and control your ENTIRE life - online and off - will be monitored by AI, which can revoke your ability to use any computer (everything is computer) at any time and that's just the beginning

the thing about game prices is that modern gamers are super spoiled and don’t realize games have gotten cheaper over time (not going into microtransactions) whining about a $60 base game is wild to me example: Monkey Island 2 sold for $60 in 1991; adjusted for inflation, it’d cost $145 now sorry

really tired of people thinking every damn thing is a distraction from some other damn thing nothing is a distraction it's all just shit on top of shit surrounded by piles of shit on beds of shit everything is exactly what it is because they don't need distractions when they literally do not care

I was tired as hell writing most of this game, but I'm just a tiny bit proud of writing Scott, one of the most annoying people in existence play Pyre Lookout for free here! outstar.itch.io/pyre-lookout

nothing involving any tech is in any inevitable, despite what its profiteers and their legions of jellyheaded sycophants try to tell you we don’t have to do any of this tech stopped making things better long ago; now it just makes things worse and adds a subscription the answer is less, not more

prediction markets should be illegal why do we keep allowing obviously bad things like they’re somehow inevitable when we could just, you know…not

American Pie (1999) is now an entire decade older than its inspirational raunch-com, Porky's (1982), was when American Pie came out...27 years ago p.s. don't forget to take your pills

we live in inverted times capitalism has inverted everything it means to be human broicism has inverted everything it means to be a man fetishization has inverted everything it means to be a woman marketing has inverted everything it means to be young systems of control inside systems of control

i miss when the only graphics options were CGA, EGA, or VGA

meanwhile, on today's episode of You Ancient Bastards: It had only been 16 years since 1969 when Bryan Adams released Summer of '69 back in 1985...41 years ago follow me for more despair!

short video worth a quick watch because he’s absolutely right

permanently blocking all media outlets that run pro-ai stories of any kind for any reason pretty much means i'll get very little news anymore, but i'm not really seeing the downside

any government that surveils its citizens without due process or allows its citizens to be surveilled by any entity for any reason is not a government of, for, or by the people omnipresent digital surveillance effectively quarters State agents in our homes to monitor and police our lives 24/7/365

while i don't think hank green is a paid shill for ai, i do think he functions as an unwitting asset for the industry, which happens a lot with science/tech influencers there's no end of useful idiots, especially when they're experts in one field bc expertise is specific, but ego thinks it's global

really wish youtube would limit videos to one damn thumbnail so i don't keep seeing the same things over and over with different variations of youtube face

Happy Subsidizing The Wealthy Day, America! Happy Financing Rich Men's Wars Day, America! Happy Paying For Poverty Day, America! Please enjoy no healthcare, no college tuition, crippling student debt, life-shattering medical debt, crumbling infrastructure, and no jobs. But the Dow is over 50,000!

starting to think we'll have to wait for AI model collapse before the AI economic bubble finally bursts, which is fun ofc, some enterprising saboteur could speed it up with AI agents that continuously generate poisoned data for the already contaminated models to keep recursively training on...

Baby Diego dies next year, and y'all don't even seem to care

i could do without April, tbh. useless, miserable month

Tom never had to testify before Congress for selling your data Tom never shoved algorithmic engagement bait into your feed Tom never partnered with sketchy IQT-funded startups to loophole domestic surveillance law Tom never shoved AI slop into every part of your life AND YOU ABANDONED HIM ANYWAY

good afternoon the lies linking an entire a decade between 2016 and the current year need to end today to be clear, it has only been four years since 2016 numerous fake images and statements about 2016 and 2026 have been circulating on social media for years be cautious about what you believe

i stopped watching all short-form video content (tiktok, reels, etc) a couple of weeks ago, and my mental health is markedly improved, as is my attention span, my capability of focusing on one thing at a time, and most importantly, my ability to enjoy whatever that one thing is you should try it

i dunno why New Beginnings is trending, but there is only one true New Beginning, and its prophet is Tracy Chapman

I’ve developed a severe case of the manflu and currently smell like equal parts Vick’s and NyQuil and Chloraseptic, with a touch of Ricola and just a hint of hot lemon water. This may be my final message.

i only susbscribe to youtube channels that don't beg me to subscribe i am not currently subscribed to any youtube channels

here's your regular reminder that it really doesn't take much to make the world a little bit better every day

not too long ago, i never would've thought i'd say this, but the analog world was better and it's not even close

imagine if, instead of all of his forces magically falling apart the moment Sauron was defeated, they simply...didn't then a new, more cogent and less unhinged successor instantly rose up, gathered all of those forces that were still there, and accelerated the offensive careful what you wish for

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ten thousand times this it's been pretty heartwarming to see the public's enthusiastic, positive interest in Artemis vs the general disinterest in SpaceX (along with enduring the usual Musk apologist techbro/dudebro/finbro hot takes that come with any SpaceX launch) i still miss the shuttle though

i miss when games had a few really polished systems instead of a zillion half-baked ones

How has Maul already been renewed for a second season before it even premieres, while The Acolyte was practically insta-cancelled as soon as the first crywhining tears of toxic dudebros hit the crusty floors of their goon rooms? sigh

what if 2026 had a theme song

when the always-friendly crossing guard who works an intersection by a nearby elementary school saw me running up this morning, he went out to hold up traffic with his stop sign for me, which was nice kinda feels like i should have a juice box and pudding cup for lunch now, though

mood

April Fool's Day is really popular among small children who haven't learned how to tell jokes yet make of that what you will and carry on, internet

turned my controller on and windows did a hard reboot "My god. It's full of vibe code." - David Bowman, 2001