I have been told not to comment on a now-retracted Ars story while an investigation is ongoing.

really reminds me of MMORPG addiction or mobile game platespinning

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

I have these comics and they’re just incredibly tense and stressful. like, you think the mushroom kingdom is p chill but no. everyone is always yelling and bombs are constantly exploding and the central plot point is people trying to not get killed every 60 seconds

Feels like a real “only Nixon could go to china” moment brewing

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

Can a shoe be a character?

The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.

What did we do to those guys after the war again?

Figure skating should have Parapa rules where the music fucks up if you fall. #olympics

i find the idea of trump doing deep research into legal arguments screamingly funny. like, come on, even the deep-in-the-tank trump supporters don't believe this, get real. they didn't elect him for his scholarship.

Like something out of an Elie Weisel book

"Worry—but don't panic" is precisely the right stance to take as Trump revs up his election delegitimization machine. Excellent from @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net.

ICYMI

Not to harp on my pet issue but the filibuster prevents things from ever getting *that* different even when voters put a trifecta in power.

good news! poison wasn’t bad for us after all!

This is the most Encyclopedia Brown-ass shit I've ever seen in real life and I fucking love it.

A decent opposition party could organize messaging around this and make it a national drumbeat story easily!

This is an incredible photo.

i mean this guy is right in the sense that the nazi regime demonstrated the logical end state of far-right politics and it was so obviously evil that it made being far-right almost universally socially unacceptable until the bulk of people who could remember it first-hand had died

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

Similarly, the Super Mario Bros. movie should just be an EXTREMELY FAITHFUL direct adaptation of the '90s Nintendo Power Super Mario Adventures comic

Can't say I'm really surprised at who is close to me on this map

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

Who's gonna tell him?

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

this is the saddest thing I've ever seen

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

This is a good summary of why AI haters and AI maximalists are often just talking past each other

This @papapishu.bsky.social piece reminds me of my first ever EGM story, where I documented how I "earned" an OG Xbox by earning points through a bunch of those "free trial" offers that were popular in the '00s Internet. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

As always, “who was president in 2020” is the key political issue of our time

Some personal news (that billion point game is so tantalizingly close)

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

Youi mean this wasn't an accurate signal that insiders really thought Jesus was returning?

If your review average is a 7 because everybody gave you a 7, that's one thing. If your average is a 7 because it's half 10s and half 4s, that is how you know it's The Good Stuff

"It's undisputed"

The best time for Dems to get rid of the filibuster is always "when they last had a trifecta"

Wasn't the idea that red-blooded Americans were going to be snapping up these jobs that were being "stolen" by immigrants?

The first 75 issues of EGM had 22 appearances of Street Fighter and/or Mortal Kombat on the cover, apparently (via the EGM Compendium)

Do a test of late 20th century history like Leisure Suit Larry did

My “don’t panic” emails is leading to a lot of questions answered by the email itself

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Feels like we’ve hit a tipping point

Oh, so it’s illegal to share a conversation with a friend now? Really? I can’t let my friends know what I’m talking about? It’s illegal to have a group call with my closest friends just because they’re from another country? Are we also going to make it illegal to have a good time with your friends??

My theory that AI maximalists don’t know how to use a computer remains undefeated so far

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

Follow up question: who is doing the burning?