You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

The cool thing about phones is they have something called voicemail. If someone important calls they can leave one to let the person know! I hope this helps you or someone else in your life who doesn’t know about voicemail!

Where’s my baby steps difficulty discourse huh?

we have to try

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

I am up doom scrolling and the mysterious yet distant sound of power tools in my bathroom continues randomly and at all hours. If I can solve just one great mystery in this life time let it be this one

people are all about "incel" now when they should be about "soft cell" and their 1981 hit 'tainted love'

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

REMEMBER: ABC owner Nexstar is trying to buy another media org and can't under current FCC regulations. Why do you think they're kowtowing to Trump now?

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

There is an entire generation for whom the Halo theme song is our collective Winter Soldier activation sound. As soon as those violins kick in after the monk chants, it's time to lock tf in.

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

Im reading V for Vendetta so I know how this ends

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

It’s interesting to think about the ways that the remnants of professionalism are furthering state goals. The WSJ trans ideology bullet engraving story is just a classic example of journalists getting manipulated by sources because they’re racing to beat other journalists. Classic in crime news

Will I get banned on Bluesky by calling for the death of amiibo?

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and what his murder and our reaction to it says about America right now. www.altrightdelete.news/p/half-mast

If Democrats want to make a show of caring about Charlie Kirk, put up a Charlie Kirk gun control bill to prevent the senseless killing of any more Charlie Kirks so the entire country can watch Republicans vote it into the dirt

Mad at the New York Times for the same reason as everyone else right now: The Wirecutter’s best peanut butter review ranked Teddy’s Organic and Jiff above Kirkland because they had difficulty “mixing the oil” despite the fact that Kirkland is very homogeneous out of the gate.

Ok but before he blocked me for talking shit about New Jersey he also said some really insane shit about how all British food is bad and I’ve never stopped thinking about it

Real job: Qboda burrito line assembly person for like $9/hr Summer before that I was an assistant at my local college’s music library. Don’t remember the pay but I basically just went in and organized sheet music for a few hours in the afternoon, listened to a few podcasts, and went home. Job rocked

Officially coming out against artists releasing albums as new “EPs” every other week as a way to milk more streams out of an album release

I love hearing my idiot robot vacuum bump into shit all over the place. I jeer at it

I WILL dress like a moogle and walk around midtown Manhattan if @unwinnable.com get to 100 new subscribers.

if you are a fan of Teen Vogue's coverage and particularly that we're willing to cover topics that are ignored or undermined—or even risky, because of censorship and scrutiny—in broader US media, sharing our coverage (and clicking the links) is a really key way to support us and our work

Maybe I’m just looking for a single review to address this with any degree of nuance, but I thought this was a good read

Also this.

Sorry for not tagging yall but i somehow deeply feel both these posts

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Trump take PS5

Reminder that George R.R. Martin spent a good chunk of the past few having several short films made based on the stories of his longtime friend Howard Waldrop. Waldrop, who died early last year, never made 1/1,000th of the money Martin made after ASOIF blew up. cont.

Maybe the ending of eddington was perfect man idunno

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Noah Hawley, at the Alien: Earth pitch: Yes, we'll have fun with our xenomorphic friends, but along the way, we'll be considering what price humanity would pay to be immortal. *advances to next slide* Meet the hybrids. Tim Robinson, there for some reason: They're ROBOTS who are really LITTLE KIDS.

RPG Site is good

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

BREAKING: Judge Lewis Kaplan just issued a temporary restraining order demanding that ICE hold fewer migrants at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. It also orders ICE to ensure they have access to lawyers and proper hygienic and medical care. Story to come.

I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.

This is one of the biggest changes in how the internet works and search and discovery is going to look very different (worse) even a year from now.

So now the problem we’re solving is “I don’t know how to tell my spouse I’m running late, that is too difficult.” This doesn’t even save time, what is WRONG with these people?

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet IG 3sixteen

Again, Zohran should run with this. Mass print O'Leary's tweet a the caption saying "We're the campaign that replies 'no interest' when billionaires try to make backroom deals with us".

If we are talking this vein of Prestige Drama it’s very weird to leave Mad Men out but I didn’t watch that so I think the one that gets most frequently undiscussed is The Leftovers

I'm really offended by the Smithsonian removing all mention of Trump's impeachments. If anyone else is, here is their mailing address and email: PO Box 37012. SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010. Washington, DC 20013-7012. [email protected] Be nice if they realized how bad this looks for them.

The scam is to conflate everything that computers do (or ever have done) with the current "AI" craze, so that the AI scam tech that nobody wants feels inevitable, rather than a tech bubble run by villains, that needs to crash immediately.