Please don't tell me again how woke and great the Chicago pope is. There are reasons I have expressly requested to never be taken to a Catholic hospital for any reason whatsoever. This piece touches on some of them.

The trouble is, as with "unc", lots of the people using it are getting it third or fourth hand without the context, using it incorrectly, and then having it "explained" by writers in the Epic Bacon social caste who have no fucking idea what they're talking about

Also, back when the dominant group on the internet was largely white, college educated American nerds, internet slang was formal/informal parodic wordplay (you, le ebin sir, have pwned TEH INTERNETS for today). Internet slang is now AAVE because now access to technology isn't just for the top 5%

When they find mechanisms to remove trans right they can piggy back the removal of contraceptive rights and abortion which is exactly what has happened in many parts of America. Not that people should only care about trans rights when it starts to affect them, but I WISH people would understand this

I know this is not generally the kind of post that anthropologists are invited to but I wanted to add: every sci-fi novel in the world with alien intelligent life is like "this whole planet (one biome) is populated by a single 'Culture,' it is driven by a high sense of 'Honor'"

If anyone would like to see a photo of a cat that wishes it was a red panda, this is your lucky day. #Caturday

tl;dr Brave was created by a guy who got kicked out of the for-profit part of Mozilla for being too for-profit and corrupt, so he created a browser that was focused around manipulating advertisements to divert the revenue and then threw several crypto scams on top of it when that failed.

A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Fuck—and I cannot stress this enough—That.

“It’s odd but all the yelling about biological urine chromosomes isn’t cutting through and we just don’t think people are thinking about transgender piss enough”

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Yeah. This is going to replace us. Any day now.

this was also the pitch for the Metaverse - if everybody agrees to use the Metaverse to mediate all their work and shopping and socializing it would be extremely good for Mark Zuckerberg

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

Things anti-trans policy and propaganda is: - hateful - fascist - eugenicist - deadly Things anti-trans policy and propaganda is not: - a luxury belief - a difference of opinion - a polling issue - a matter of salience - a distraction

Reminder that there is empirical research to prove the “when the person speaking was 12” point. It’s called Reminiscence Bump and it’s literally from ages 12-14. psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...

Amazing that Apple's approach to anything even approaching consenting porn is "not on your life, you filthy pervert" and its approach to nonconsensual porn is, basically, "well, what can ya do"

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

FYI, Google Translate is switching to using AI without giving notice. (Someone complained that Translate was making assumptions about tone, and this change turned out to be the reason.)

this is a story about The Pitt, but this paragraph is actually a Scientology jump scare dictionary obsession was a hubbard decree www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

"Hey guys, wouldn't it be funny if we named our research-stealing machine after someone whose research was famously stolen? ROFLcopter!"

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

This is what I mean, you can shove these people through a meat grinder and what comes out the other end will still bleat they were right to drive away those leftists keeping people from being shoved through a meat grinder.

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

Turns out that the ‘AI Sucks, Actually’ crowd were correct (again). bsky.app/profile/agpa...

Good thing i screencapped it

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

Every guide on recovering from ADHD burnout: the first step is getting enough sleep Me: yeah about that

Again: the gun you keep in the home for “protection” increases your risk of homicide by 3-fold, of suicide by 5-fold, and for men, risk of suicide more than 10-fold The second you bring a gun into the home you’ve dramatically increased the risk of death for your family 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

It may seem paradoxical but a key to accomplishing (1) will be to deflate the psychological importance that Americans attach to their voting decision. Casting a particular ballot in a particular election needs to become understood as a small practical matter, not a titanic moment of self-expression.

Things aren't going to move fast, just because there's no money, Naomi is funding this with a bank loan and her book royalties, and ... Folks, it's so rare for things to *return* back home like this. So if used to love this app, please consider signing back up.

If you used to have a grandfathered plan, check to see if you still do (mine was still active) - renew it if you possibly can. If you used to do 1-3 months of VIP to blast through a bunch of episodes, if you can afford it, please sign back up. There's also a $7USD (?) month plan as well.

First, make sure to sign up for the newsletter, alerts, announcements, etc. "But I did that year ago." Nah, that's all gone folks. Sign back up. zombiesrungame.com?_gl=1*1sr5fh...

In 1992 I joined the Monochrome BBS, and you marked the chats you were interested in, and you logged in and hit the space bar until you’d read everything, and then logged out, and that interface was infinitely better than f’ing Discord 34 years later.

The problem nowadays is that CEOs don't want to work. They just want money for laying people off and blathering about AI, not for producing any positive or concrete improvement to the business. They expect hundreds of millions for thousands of job loses and it's weak sauce, snowflake behaviour.

"bsky users blame every problem on vibe coding" yeah, dude. if you got a dog to code this website i wouldn't be wasting time asking which of you was the source of each new bug

A writer I trust who shares an agent with JKR had the agent on the phone venting because they were getting it in the neck from the publisher because Lady Transphobia was refusing to be edited any more and you can see by the size of the books when that was

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Looking at manosphere guys in general, they aren't actually interested in women, in that they don't see them as full people and so they aren't interested in what they think but only as a conquest. Really they're interested in approval and validation from other men.

Could this be my finest moment? '"Your average space billionaire probably doesn't give a rat's arse about future generations," she said'. I'm not sure I was expecting this to be quoted! 🧪

the full 60 minutes is segment is gold not just for this, but for the bit where a journalist says to a doctor "why DOES his face look different?" and the doctor responds, their voice filled with bafflement and disbelief at the question they've just been asked, "puberty"

🕘 What time is it? 🕙 Thirteen O'Clock! 🕚 https://bgfn.sh/ticknews 🕛 Time is running out for the Ninth Doctor and Rose. 🕐

I love using this meme whenever I see an AI generated pictures of the weirdo doing something stupid. Seriously, there are so many hand-drawn political cartoons around the world featuring the turd doing literally everything. Not to mention he's a living cartoon character, so photos should be fine.

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Check out today's mini of the day: "Upon a Fiery Steed" from Hero Forge community member Hypersmurf. If you'd like your mini to be showcased for mini of the day - submit here! heroforge.com/content/comm...

Streamers, 99% of the overlay ideas you have probably already exist and are made by humans. Anyone can learn to code. Not everyone can draw and that's okay. Hire an artist. If your idea doesn't exist yet, you can hire someone to build it or learn to do it. Humans create. GenAI steals. Hire humans