i feel congressional democrats are squarely in the "don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake" stage with both the shutdown and for the ice stuff i think it's generally the correct strategy, but i think the silence on ice stuff has to end soon

some of us are just livejournal veterans

I've played perhaps 20 minutes of AC games in total. I would purchase this game on principle if it was done in a true, brave manner (which it never would be, but one could hope).

for some reason a large chunk of the american population has misinterpreted "freedom" as "freedom from the consequences of one's own actions" and man, turns out that's a terrible way to interpret freedom if you're trying to have an actually good society whodathunk

this is brittle, as they can literally eff it all up in a blink, but at this exact second i'm kinda somewhat sorta happy with congressional democrats for digging in. it does prove, even a tiny bit, that they're capable of learning from their mistakes and/or changing their strategy to fit a moment.

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

this is one of the main reasons i took the plunge on an ev recently. it will take some time for the gas/electric savings to pay for just my home charger i'll have to install, but the lack of maintenance costs will make the car payment look a lot better.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Nobody liked the first one. Stop it.

learning that dan soder and katie nolan are a couple has made me immeasurably happy for both of them

tw violence, but this one has a very happy ending

conspiracy theories are mostly stupid most nba conspiracy theories are mostly stupid but time and time again, the nba does the exact thing (or the exact thing just happens) that would make anyone go "wait a minute what the hell"

This dog is too much.

ok yes i acknowledge that if i go to the gym today i will feel better after, but what -- I ask you WHAT -- about during?

google taking the anti-ice app off their store isn't surprising because google has rarely pretended to be principled or in possession of any scruples apple doing the same is at least slightly disappointing because they at least have pretended to have principles still not surprising though.

pretty sure the idea of a “good” social media site runs completely counter to the idea of making something that will survive profit motives

the only positive to the unbelievably cringe shit people are using ai to make is that ai only seems to amplify the cringiness so it's painfully obvious how lame it all is

I love how "usable" neatly excludes Mastodon (just kidding I do like Mastodon y'all)

what a disgrace. what a massive piece of shit.

part of me wants to become a tech ceo just to hurt the "weird v. not-weird" ratio, but hey, it's possible that becoming a tech ceo just makes you weird

I like and support The Guardian, but this article sucks. Tying the "naturalist argument" (writer's words, not actors') against AI with a contradiction involving cosmetic surgery is pretty clearly incongruent. The premise is so absurd it makes me question motives.

I’m not an AI doomer - I’m an educated AI realist. Unfortunately, in a group running from “AI hype booster” to “completely AI naive”, that makes me look like a doomer.

i don't know who's going to be the '28 nominee, but it needs to be someone newer on the scene, without political baggage, that represents a major shift (preferably for real and not just in appearance) in the dem party this disqualifies many people (cont)

Saying this is basically the same as saying "please resign because it won't be easy to fire you"

I think dem leadership is insufficiently partisan and it's killing the party

David Cross: for when your own words aren’t mean enough

hear me out: don't abolish ICE rebrand ICE, they wear pink camoflauge, carry no weapons, and only stand outside near the border no matter what the weather is also their job is just like, being nice and making sure things go smoothly for people see how long they put up with that then abolish ice

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

the "vote blue no matter who" phrase just tilts me off the face of the earth because it's not a useful conversation it's not useful to say it's bad because like, are you advocating for not voting? that seems weird. are you saying the gop candidate is better? if you feel that way, uh, ok (cont)

sc&o original s&v bbq what's funny is that I can't think of a single normal lay's flavor that would compel me to eat them over virtually any kettle-cooked chip, or the vast majority of ridged chips they're good, just...not that good.

learned a few things in this bears game: - caleb looked pretty OK for how much pressure he was under and how often bad things kept happening - in lieu of stopping teams, the def/st just decides to block kicks and take the ball away, and that's OK - i am mortally afraid of crosby, what a monster

this is very anecdotal, but there are a number of people i've known that have turned hard-right over the past 9 years, and all of them (like, 12 people) had what i would call moderate-to-severe personal issues even religious-conservative people i know did not turn hard-right

the worst part of tombstone is that it reminds me that we never got a "life and times of doc holiday" sequel/prequel/spinoff/whatever with just val kilmer being fuckin' cool for 90 minutes a great failing of our culture that this never happened

rand paul's long been propped up as a more sane and reasonable republican, but like, there's objectively no truth in this statement. unless you're talking about ICE activity, then maybe maybe pay attention to the murder-capita leader in your own state, nerd

maintaining "decorum" and "civility" and constantly contorting yourself to keep using "nice words" is a completely useless (if not wholly counter-productive!) exercise when the other side is disappearing people and will call you a communist no matter what you do

i realize that this is the coldest take imaginable, but i'm pretty sure social media was a mistake

replacing "Sad" with "screeching anti-AI" and you'd have my work experience the past 6 months well-described

Got my performance review.

patiently waiting for all the conservatives who cried about 1984 the last 9 years to start screaming their stupid faces off about this unambiguous example of it any moment now, i'm sure they'll pipe up, we'll see the youtube notifications any second

Tommy Wiseau with even less personality and social grace

if/when we have a reckoning for these ICE actions, we /must not/ give leeway to these agents they are not "following orders" (though that wouldn't be a good enough excuse for me). they signed up for this and are paid handsomely to do something they look very happy to do

I've loved standup comedy for practically my entire life. I've been let down my some over the years for a variety of reasons. I feel I'm right in most respects, but I've always had faith in the industry as a whole. I felt it symbolized the purest on social commentary. Clearly, it isn't. (cont)

slipping a tylenol into my wife's drink so my next kid will like baseball

in a better world we would look at and hear people like thiel and just immediately disregard anything they say, do, or think anything "summoning the antichrist" is real fuckin' weird dude also the way he talks is so unnatural and what a terrible haircut just an obvious ghoul

this thing calls David Draiman an "artist" and for that it's null and void from the jump also, all these people being cool with genocide seems like a bad thing

take the under

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