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This is tough to accept if you grew up in the 20th century because back then it probably was not true

Can't imagine why he thought the election was stolen. Maybe it had something to do with the President lying about it and the press regurgitating his statements as though they were a point of view worth considering and not just blatant lies. So weird. So weird.

Just got my first print issue of The Onion in the mail. My 11-year-old stumbled on it on the kitchen counter, then came into the living room: "Dad, I found a newspaper in the kitchen, and it seems very fake... for a second I thought 'Is this what the world has come to?'" @bencollins.bsky.social

I mean NFTs didn’t technically “end” but the world at large has largely moved on, and I think that’s what many people are hoping will happen with AI

This will have you getting genuinely emotional over the fate of a nearly 200 year old cable resting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Elite free speech discourse has culminated in state action to compel labor

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

Also it’s really cheap if you pirate all the songs!

I find this sequence, and the direction the thread in between implicitly took, unbelievably hilarious

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

Reading EGM (got my first issue in 1992) really did feel like breaking out of Nintendo Power propaganda jail back in the day. It was incredible

Without exaggeration, reading EGM and GamePro in the 90s felt like finding Radio Free Europe after a lifetime of state-run media. The truth, at last.

Very endearing and relatable memory from @kohler.bsky.social in the very entertaining EGM Compendium

It's the ultimate version of "graphics are good, gameplay is boring" but for the movies

Feel like this is the Rosetta Stone for understanding how Trump became a semi-divine figure for people who have alienated themselves from everyone in their lives

A good AI take

That’s so weird, did something important happen that day?

Not at all the point, but “you can predict the future, just like sports” makes no sense on its own

“Clinton is in the Epstein files!” Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know. The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

so, while i don't find that reactionary approach productive or helpful, i understand it. people need time to learn new tools, they need training to understand how to use them effectively, and every company selling them promises that it will just work for you, which it won't and doesn't.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

lol mf said "hop"

I'm done working for the year (GOTY list is still waiting to be published) So I hop you'll indulge me in my annual list of articles I'm actually proud of from the last twelve months. 🧵

As the author of Wii for Dummies, and as someone who got comments like this a lot, all I’ll say is “you’d be surprised”

also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

The “briefly uploaded” part might be the most concerning here. Why was it taken down?

As I've said in the past, the problem with "Devs can't even use AI for background tasks that don't show up directly in the game" as a stance is that it's impossible to detect/enforce, and its just gonna cause devs to hide their usage. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

she's just doing what she was hired to do

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Streisand Effect, do your thing

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

"This is newsworthy enough to our audience of retro game fans that we should cover it despite the unsavory connections" would have been a good argument "I have absolutely no bias in story selection and simply must publish all information as it comes to me" is not a good argument (from Retrododo)

Glad I didn't buy this book now that it's in the public record

Feels like this story has some legs, I dunno

Jeffrey Epstein, with an unidentified (redacted) woman, holds a large novelty cheque for $22,500 signed by…Donald Trump. It's a framed photo, an the frame says "once in a blue moon". What on earth is going on here?

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

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