Okay but seriously: why tho Like I get that the administration has a vested interest in keeping the bubble going and I understand that AI is the aesthetic of fascists, but none of those answer why Hegseth is all in on having soldiers actually use tech that doesn’t work

did it in four words hemmingway

A week of 50% off our blue-skies-and-space-ruins robot ghost story:

Controversial opinion, but Spain should rebuild her mighty Armada and have one more go at England.

I am genuinely curious about what people on here will choose

The majestic man-taur Half man... half another man

The duality of Defector

Now THIS is journalism.

This is the problem with so many dudes shilling for "agentive AI" too. The actual work they are claiming to replace is invisible to them, especially how much it relies on relationships, informal networks, context, and the ability to bridge systems that don't interoperate.

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

I wish everyone had a pay per article option. I can't subscribe monthly to a gazillion people, but I want to spread the support. I'm maxed out. Help support independent media, if possible.

Okay, ignoring everything else about this: hyper-realistic police sketches are *worse* than hand-drawn sketches. When we see a sketch, we intuitively understand it as a rough approximation, and we see similarities. With realistic images, we expect it to look *exactly* the same as the person.

YES. YES GIVE ME THE WEIRD CONSPIRACY NONSENSE.

Letterman would’ve flambéed this loser

“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”

the majority didn’t vote for trump, and even if kamala had put up numbers equivalent to biden in 2020 she would’ve…won dearborn and still lost the election this obsession with attacking arabs in dearborn is really gross

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

Grumpy medievalist take, but I am gobsmacked by the cheerfulness with which some scholars working in later fields disclose not having the relevant languages for their research, and also having no plans to acquire them. There are many cases in which you've actually gotta read the Latin, babe!

Shoutout to deathgenerator.com

Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them. We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.

It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task. You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right? It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.

This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.

Ever since Guillermo del Toro said gen AI does “really good screensavers” I can’t stop thinking about it everytime I see something like this, no scene is longer than a couple of seconds, no visual narrative following a character or scenery, just really bland one shot quick scenes you won’t remember-

LinkedIn posters: "blockbuster had a chance to buy netflix for $50M. they declined." in case anyone else never paid attention to business: if blockbuster got netflix 25 years ago netflix wouldn't have become what it did. blockbuster would have ruined it with outdated vision or to protect their turf

In this episode of Danny accidentally conflated things: Welcome to Derry is NOT I repeat NOT A spinoff of Derry Girls

I keep a screenshot of this tumblr post on *every device I own* bc it makes me laugh so hard every time I look at it.

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“The political climate around Palestine has made it such that a lot of the Silicon Valley-based social media platforms don’t seem particularly willing to ensure that Palestinian content can stay up,” EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @TheIntercept.com. theintercept.com/2025/12/07/...

Bluesky is showing clear bias by banning a woman for being rightfully angry after ICE took her husband. @aaron.bsky.team mocked her after reinstating her, then banned her again. This behavior from someone claiming to lead Trust and Safety is beyond embarrassing and unprofessional.

Youtube continues to be the worst site.

Don Snoreleone would like another nap.

I am so furious at YouTube for doing this. You have literal gambling ads plastered across your website. The video you take action on contains no real gambling, and is promoting an LGBTQ+ children's charity fundraiser. Absolutely horrendous image and optics for the website. Completely moronic

“What about those who are isolated? Those who are in hospital or managing a chronic health condition or disability that means they can’t participate in the world in the same way as other teenagers their age?”

I love that he 1. is swole 2. wears a wig 3. looks quite a bit like Roger Stone

romantasy reader: how DARE you criticize our important genre, you amab socialized manly man woman! romantasy novel: he did a torture on me. he did a torture real bad. but I was strong, and wet. it took 75 more pages and 12 content warnings yet somehow no descriptions. my womb then taught him to love

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

Paramount's offer includes $24 billion from the Saudi, Qatari and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, as well as a VC group affiliated with Jared Kushner Rare instance where Netflix is the lesser of two evils.

Sounds like the long-awaited v1.0 release of Black Reliquary (a standalone Darkest Dungeon total conversion mod, released on Steam with Red Hook's blessings) isn't too far off now. It's like if Darkest Dungeon was inspired primarily by Robert E. Howard (Conan, etc) instead of Lovecraft.

pretty close! no ring though

imagine the death threats parents of trans children get bcos of all the lies and misinformation marjorie taylor greene has spent years spreading about gender affirming care for youth. imagine the trans ppl who have been murdered bcos of all the lies marjorie taylor greene has spent years spreading.

American democracy has been so eroded and is so far in the past now that we are going to be forced to literally fight what looks a lot like a ground war to reestablish democracy across the country. and it is going to be incredibly destabilizing and scary. that is why we are seeing high-level

setting off the metal detector like neo with a coat full of these

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

a.i.-generated text is the uncanny valley of the written word.