Impossible to understand the tech leader zeal for humanoid robots unless you realize their homes are filled with human staff whose presence makes them, in a basic way, uncomfortable. They want servants without the trace of subjectivity.

I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated

they don't show it in the movie but on Dagobah next to his crappy little house Yoda keeps an entire shack full of stolen bikes

When you think you've overcooked the chicken for dinner, and your partner insists it's fine, but you can't believe that she means it and assume she secretly hates it and is too polite to tell you

In Diddy Kong Racing DS, the message when connection is lost during Download Play is "LOST ALL CHILDREN". The cartridge is internally called a "parent" and the downloaded instances its "children". While this would make sense to the developers, it has the potential to confuse or scare players.

there are moments when you spy a carp and you know this is a fool. i can swindle this carp so easily if i chose to

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.

every single goddamn time i see somebody mention N. K. Jemisin i think about her criticizing the story and then tweeting “well I didn’t read it but”

I know everything's bad and all that but I can't stop laughing at "I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America"

It reminded me of Gérard DuBois' painting for the cover of Moby Dick. Astonishing also. www.instagram.com/p/ChfLS2kr179/

I've posted about this before but one of the most memorable lessons I learned in grad school was about how IQ tests are not a very good indicator of overall intelligence because you can just train for the test - we did this by taking weekly IQ tests and getting better at it over time

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.

That’s cool my longterm vision is to put you on a remote island that you can never leave

I’ll say with no exaggeration that these people are the enemy of humanity, the enemy of anything we hold dear or important haaa

fuck

LRT: I've shared Wrapped in the past, not doing a "wake up sheeple" on you if you're sharing it, but it is pretty sinister when you think about it

"Wrapped" is the single most creative way to sell "our service collects data on you constantly and that's fun." Spotify figured that out first. They have yet to hit a second innovation that endears them to users, despite trying such tactics as "ads for ICE" and "paying musicians bupkis."

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

You encounter 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 Press [A] to compliment and watch them writhe around in discomfort

Girlfriend has informed me of a person with the name Trilby Millet on her work call. Trilby Millet, ladies and gentlemen

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

Mad Men 4K

Listen to Blood Work

It’s not an aspect ratio thing. It’s a leaving-out-the-vfx thing. “Invisible vfx” are unnoticed until they’re gone. In the original, the crew was painted out and replaced by a potted plant. 🪴

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Still bad regardless of the minimum sentences involved, who is this going to placate

*Anthony Kiedis, sitting down to write Give It Away* You know who I hate? The Kaiser.

the coop this evening with possibly the most baffling musical choice i have ever experienced in a supermarket

Those Cluniac chumps never got to spend more time downloading and troubleshooting mods for Fallout New Vegas than they spent playing it

if I was a 12th century Cluniac monk I never would have gotten to passively watch files download at 25 MB/s and would have had to content myself with observations of babbling brooks, fields of wheat swaying in the wind, sunsets, etc

Vape Maddness. Vape Masness

Vape Madness is a real condition that tries to conceal itself by limiting its victims’ ability to type it

I know this point has been made before, but it's *wild* that the sort of thing that 15 years ago would have been restricted to nazi internet forums and dodgy leaflets chucked around town centres is now just being printed in national newspapers. No idea how to fix this, but it definitely needs fixing

optimistic guy in the town from Uzumaki: well I think our town is BLESSED by spirals

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

Imagine calling your morning stretches "stretchies" in the same way you might call walking the dog "walkies". Disgusting to consider

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Playing Final Fantasy 7 as an unsophisticated child with peanut butter all over my face vs playing it as a sophisticated adult cognizant of important themes and motifs

it is now leaking into the comments of Blondie's Rapture

Got to get up early for jury duty tomorrow, pray for your boy

One of the reasons I expect Reform to go worse in the UK than Trumpism is going in the US is that I think the UK has weaker civic society institutions. Our churches and universities are less rich, powerful, or inclined to resist, our media more compliant and uniform, our unions just as desiccated.

The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows