I liked the Steam Cube at first but now I hate the Steam Cube for not having an e-ink display

it's no defense of this particular decision, or any of the parties involved, but "you can make threats as long as you use well-known songs as a joke" would certainly be a policy that would justify a lot of what we would otherwise clearly understand to be rightwingers doing death threats

Happy whale carcass explosion day to all who celebrate!

I built a little thing that makes it easier to understand and respond to the Minimum Viable Secure Product controls. Send it to your SaaS vendors, or use it to track your own progress. It's free, and I don't see the data. monorail.tech/mvsp

OK, like, moderation can have a lot of tricky edge cases, and I understand that when you have the responsibility of running the platform, you can't necessarily let an obvious quote of Folsom Prison Blues slide, but your public messaging about it should at least acknowledge it was an obvious quote

I feel the need to shout this from the rooftops AGAIN

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class. New piece laying this out: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

I'll be interested in the GabeCube just as soon as Valve reaches an arrangement with Bungie about their anti-cheat software

We really don’t have to do “he was neurodiverse and a minor” for literally, literally, the actual Hitler

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

The speed with which you are all mining these for jokes and memes is actually pretty chilling and indicative of the fact that you don't actually understand Epstein's victims as human beings, just convenient pawns to wield against men you don't like

Read the history of the Southern Baptist Convention's cover-up of its massive sex abuse scandal for the playbook for Johnson.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

Sorry kids, I think that thing you're nostalgic for should be outright illegal I'm entering my villainous adult phase, etc

It pains me that there is an entire generation of people who have now grown up trained to view manipulative, engagement-farming gambling games as the norm for video games. There are countless people who have formative, nostalgic memories of opening loot boxes and the excitement of gacha ten-pulls

I still have too many Space Dogs prints and would like to rehome many of them so they are now $10 cheaper but with the same amount of dogs.

It would make America a banana republic to investigate the very obvious crimes of the former president that he is extremely guilty of

Ahhh, I was wondering how Johnson was going to avoid that

It’s time 🌲

Like????? You think I’m exaggerating but — (The reporter’s follow up is closer to “ok but what parades will you march in” than the making-a-statement piece which is more in the first question they asked) via: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7tdO1...

the framing on this Mamdani veteran's day thing by some reporters is wild, they're like "oh so you're boycotting parades, is this the first parade you're boycotting" and he's like "I decided to serve actual veterans & sit down with them to see what they're dealing with" & they're like "but parades?"

I know this is impossible discuss on the internet without being accused of excusing horrible things but I do think it's a problem not to be able to terminologically distinguish between sexual attraction to prepubescent children and desire for sexual access to/control of teen girls and young women

Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools. They are not. They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."

huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before

this is a nitpick but the use of "alleged" in these headlines (not just NYT) is an editorial tic that irritates me. just use "said" (or "wrote").

Mamdani has the chance to do the funniest thing ever on his first day

Do NOT grant these evil people the assumption that they will get away with anything. We don’t know that. Repeatedly making demands for accountability can and does break through over time, even against the right wing noise machine.

It’s harassment to tell me my opinions are bad

the party should throw them a party aka SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE "investments in local media affordable indoor playgrounds gyms with on-site facilitators sponsor content creators send people resources to host their neighbors for dinner"

is that a lot that seems like a lot

Photos from Tony Nelson at the big show at Orchestra Hall. Arranged by Andy Thompson, conducted by Sarah Hicks. Shout to Joynoëlle for the clever zip dress. Vox squad: Jelly, Aby, Aviva, Matthew, Cameron. Band: the Minnesota Orchestra.

i regret to inform you that the rich new york pervert who is obsessed with power and status, and was best friends with jeffrey epstein, may have been involved somehow

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Man this is shocking. No I've never heard of dennis hastert or strom thurmond, why do you ask?

5% of the people that saw the aurora borealis became “skytouched.” They no longer speak or blink, all of them journeyed into the forest. They are gathering scrap metal and constructing a big device. So it’s actually a good thing I didn’t see the northern lights

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

I read about this back before I taught Ten to read, and I'm so glad I did. I taught him spelling and reading using phonics and he reads well beyond his grade level and *enjoys* it. It's maddening other kids don't even have a chance.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women led pro-temperance and anti-gambling activism because men would do this constantly - frequently leaving their wives and children with no money for food, fuel, or rent.

Anyways my point is that the first John Wick movie kicks fucking ass but the subsequent John Wick sequels are over-long and oftentimes boring but no one wants to say that because we all like Keanu and want him to be happy

Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”

Like look at this. This isn’t about genuinely representing nation’s great struggle or a dream or victory. It’s about making something that looks like it would be about a great cultural struggle or dream or victory. It’s “this thing looks like this other thing”

The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art

"collaboration between writers and voice actors is an important part of the development process and 'AI' voices can't do that" "oh so you think writers should just completely change everything based on VAs' whims?? what about their artistic vision???" We have a reading comprehension crisis on bsky

One must assume that either Johnson et al. used that delay to develop an alternate plan to prevent their release, or some enterprising staffer arranged for key sections to be "accidentally" lost or destroyed

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.