is it bad when you’re underperforming by 20% in a Hitler County district in the Deep South

good riddance

lol at kara trying to play real journalist

i think im going back to the camp of using "large language model" for large language models because it emphasises how much they are tuned specifically for the task of 'emulating language'. if you input a question, you get processing power devoted to perfecting "the shape of an answer", not 'truth'

Haha, holy shit. I'm starting to understand why Trump keeps pardoning major drug traffickers. bsky.app/profile/jule...

collecting squishmallows, squishables, whatever ty is doing now is no less "adult" than collecting meissen shepherds and much more "adult" than collecting funkos

You know how sometimes people will make sensationalist claims to the FBI for the fame and clout of them coming out six years later in a report no one was sure would ever be publicly available

robert burns had a bazillion kids and did it through the power of poetry and actually having sex with women, the ivf thing is so creepy

Melon Journey is on sale for $3 on the e-shop. A very delightful adventure game, I liked it so much I imported a physical copy from Japan. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

this is a fun little cooking sim that uses motion controls (if you want to use them), athena loves it and absolutely loves the joy con controls. you advance things by cooking for people to make them happy.

The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

if you wait until the very last minute to kill something in an attempt to try and keep it out of people's hands the bad news is, it's in your partner feeds already

Train churro time

We have a tiny tree on a riser and olive likes to sit behind it and stuff her face in it?

I have touched lightly on this due to the whole CBDTP/Tolls-By-Mail debacle with rentals, but I don't think people understand how bad this gets between absolutely ridiculous junk-fees and hiked-up taxes/concessions *on tolls*. I don't know what it is supposed to encourage, other than fury

i've actually been thinking of re-reading the odyssey, which i've only read twice (both in a class environment under the classics department) because i was reading about a book by daniel mendelsohn and he mentioned a sequel, the life of telemachus by archbishop francois fenelon [...]

one of the more interesting thing about reading later epics is a lot of them go out of their way to be like "the hero made big efforts to keep his crew safe" and that says something about how people have felt about odysseus for-basically-ever

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the bank, and to get my car back, I need to pay the entire remaining balance, which is a little over $5K. I feel awful asking for any more after how overwhelmingly powerful the response has been so far(!), but unfortunately we aren't quite out of the woods yet.

FYI, if you're outside the US, you can come here and just collect $3,000

What a week! Just a sampling of the good news to celebrate as we head into 2026: 1) THE RUINS has been longlisted for the NBCC Barrios Book in Translation Prize 💫 2) NORTH SUN made Barack Obama's top ten books of 2025! 🐋 3) [GAMEROVER] was named "Best Design" of 2025 by Preposition Magazine!

The most famous reindeer of all? It’s not the saiga antelope. While the saiga won’t be taking Rudolph’s job anytime soon, it does have a special nose, which filters out dust during dry summers and warms the air it breathes during cold winters. Photo: Vyacheslav Luzanov, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

one underrated thing about CBariS is that she is probably blowing up all her NY media relationships so maybe we won't have to hear about how cool she is at dinner parties

she couldn't even get fired from the NYT which she had been trying to do for cred

hahaha cry more dan goldman

what am i supposed to be impressed by here

the getting melinda katz in as DA was job one of the more awful things done by dem party in nyc

i opened up the hbo max app (kids profile) to find something to put on for kids at dinner and there is no featured christmas/holiday collection anywhere on the home screen, what horrific merchandising

usha vance knows who she married and also she definitely believes she is a part of the in group, as a lot of "upper caste hindus" (practicing or not) do (they are not)

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

lol holy shit

i'm sorry did this horrific white power fashchristian thing take place on a sunday when they should all be at their churches

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --

nobody has ever actually apologized "for being white" in the history of the united states some people just want to believe they're born superior to others and they've landed on racial stratification strategies

the vice president is a klansman

Try this instead: I was wrong. I overstated narrow election results, underappreciating how many Trump voters didn’t believe he’d do what he said. I miscast fascists and oligarchs gaining political power as a popular cultural shift. I got some of this on X, failing to recognize it’s skewed that way.”

The gall to treat the 2024 election like it was a binding referendum on American culture, a lasting “vibe shift” to which others must accommodate, then within a year proclaim the cultural change over, as if a bystander, not an active contributor manufacturing vibe shifts by overdetermining results.

There was no vibe shift, just anti-incumbent anger that was misinterpreted by the dipshit pundit class as a mandate.

There's nothing to explain! You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!

o/~ have a holly jolly christmas

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Canada was their top customer! And thanks to President Deals, we stopped buying bourbon months ago. Billions and billions of dollars in sales, gone www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

i can't remember the name of it right now but there is a horror manga about a bunch of influencers being invited to aokigahara for some opportunity (obviously all going to die, ti's a horror manga) and avatars for the paul bros are it in being awful bros

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

don't worry everyone just sync your server time to my super mario bros game and watch

we must go back in time and destroy baseball usenet before it leaks