Carolina: we only get a primetime game every couple years, because we suck during them.

I'll take the TD!

The Panthers aren't gonna have any starters left to get wrecked by the Rams next week.

"It honors our country." What is this jingoism crap? "Oh no, you wore crocs on a flight, you dishonor our dear leader."

Since the Star Wars discourse is happening, my rankings (right now, subject to change): 1. Empire Strikes Back 2. Star Wars 3. Rogue One 4. Revenge of the Sith 5. The Last Jedi 6. The Force Awakens 7. Return of the Jedi 8. The Phantom Menace 9. Solo 10. Rise of Skywalker 11. Attack of the Clones

I know this is rhetorical but my stab at a real answer: because they are trying to get funding from VC people who are ideologues like Peter Thiel and Thiel doesn’t want us to have libraries

🎶"It's like rain, On your wedding day, It's a free ride, When you've already paid, Some good advice, That you just didn't take, And who would've thought, It figures."🎶

The campaign against Group of 5 schools is one of the worst things about college football. awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...

Imagine being so deeply, crushingly insecure that you need to make a laughably silly AI tell everyone you're good at everything.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

It's going to take a generation to fix the damage this administration has done to fundamental government agencies in just 10 months. That's assuming we survive this administration.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

There's a reason Charlotte's NBA team is called the Hornets, and it seems ICE is finding out the hard way. Keep pounding, Charlotte! Run those masked cowards out of town!

He's a misogynistic asshole, and his behavior gives permission to every other misogynistic asshole.

Of course he wants to do this, all the tech bro AI companies are the ones lining his pockets. We need strict AI regulation, and the Trump administration or his lackey GOP congress sure isn't gonna do it.

I love soccer, and the World Cup is a competition that is only rivaled by the Olympics in terms of world sport. I was so looking forward to it being on US soil for the first time in 30 years. But it's hard to be excited when this dumbass administration is using the World Cup for political leverage.

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

This. These AI companies are trying to get rich off of other people's work, in order to rush out apps and features that will allow anyone to churn out derivative slop. All while sucking up public utilities. The AI companies can die.

AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —

100% tax on every dollar above a billion you make. Congrats, you won capitalism, now get taxed, nerd.

Welp, might be time to refresh my Unix knowledge, cause fuck Microsoft and their pushing AI into all aspects of Windows.

When I read Project Hail Mary, my mental image of Grace was not Ryan Gosling. It was like... imagine Jason Alexander like 10 years ago with a beard. Sorta. Regardless, this looks awesome. But, the trailer is chock full of spoilers if you haven't read the book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYs...

Don't threaten me with a good time.

KPop Demon Hunters

"I want the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, I'm invading a country."

It is insane to not regulate AI. Did a TEDx Talk on how Congress must take a proactive approach to make sure we harness the power of AI safely for the future. Watch the full talk: bit.ly/tedtalkAI

Alan Cumming guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel on Attacks on the Trans community & bringing kindness back to America youtu.be/T90xaYUkd-M?...

Man who started fire wants praise for putting it out.

I mean, it gives Zelda vibes, so what else can you ask from a set photo?

Call of Duty might bring about something positive?

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

You really can’t make a better example of corporate greed than one of the biggest franchises in the world cutting corners using gen ai like this. Franchise prints money and yet… I can’t wait for the people investing all this money into AI for this shit to go bankrupt.

"I want my gold star for putting out the fire I started."

If users are creating the content... why are we paying Disney? (also, fuck AI, this "content" is bullshit)

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

Watching the Fallout season 2 trailer. "Huh, that sounded like @kumail.bsky.social but I haven't seen news about him cast in this." *shows Kumail Nanjiani* "That's cool. Dude has been in Marvel and Star Wars and now Fallout, living the nerd dream!"

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year. Of course I have. The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious. Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”

Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.

Look, he's gotta do something between writing season 4 of White Lotus and the upcoming season 50 of Survivor.

Universal pause for single player or co-op games. Middle of a cut scene? Should be able to pause. About to face Andrew Ryan and your cat pukes on the rug? Should be able to pause.

Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands. Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame. Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump. Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.

Folded like a house of cards so that people could see the GOP is anti-health care. Which we already knew. So folded for nothing. Put people through 40 days of hell for nothing. Great job, Senator, can't wait for the follow-up, "we didn't do shit and cashed our paychecks."

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Would like to see this survey done again after last night's bullshit.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Earth to Democrats: Do NOT compromise on your shutdown demand. robertreich.substack.com/p/earth-to-d...