What idiot called it Avatar and not El Blue Boy

Album of the year (2005) for me. The shoegazey guitars and production are SO GOOD youtu.be/SwrWm-IDPWQ?...

A frustrated Pedro Pascal asking Neil Druckmann, who was directing Pascal in a Last of Us episode, “do you like art?”

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

tech CEOs: ooga booga. me Hitler, LOL corporate tech journalists: Thank you for everything you do for us 🥹

seeing a correlation between wanting to like, get one over sneeringly on concept/fine artists online via stuff made with ai and being a culturally illiterate dope. open their skull look inside and its canvas wall art of heath ledger joker smoking cigars with patrick bateman in a business environment

If the average American could read a book, and ever read a book on the history of Korea and the United States' involvement in the history of the nation, I like to think they'd feel such intense shame that their heads would explode Scanners style, if the average American could experience shame

this man autographed israeli bombs

Still reeling from the take I saw somewhere “leftists don’t post about sports enough”

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

I FINALLY FOUND IT. Been looking for this stupid video for fucking EVER but GOOGLE SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT NOW

happy ten year anniversary to my favourite fighting game post of all time

There are no words for how evil this is

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Kinda refreshing how many bad movies are on Criterion Channel

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

If Microsoft do not make a firm statement against this soon, I'm pretty sure I'm upgrading them to Boycott For Life. This is utterly reprehensible and if they somehow endorse this naked, virulent bigotry, they are a valid target forevermore.

Chatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles illustration by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon) for Weekly Famitsu No. 1915:

This is broadly true of everything involving tech but I actively distrust Y Combinator adjacent fascists that can narc on my DMs more than Chinese companies knowing what kind of usb c cables I like.

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Liberals are in terrible danger thanks to ascendant Christian nationalism and they still don’t get it

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

This has been the project all along and publications like the WSJ, the Times, and the Atlantic are active enablers because of the way they choose to report on and talk about trans people!

I don't know what has to happen to get a majority of elected Democrats to back packing the Court. What more needs to occur? How bad do things have to get? Not sure I even want to know, frankly.

Went to Tokyo in August for the Masamune Shirow exhibit and I wish I could go to Osaka to see the next Masamune Shirow exhibit

these Abundance liberals are just republicans

i’m not going to accept any statement on the “steep environmental cost” of air conditioning while countries are backtracking on their climate goals to keep powering AI

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

1) Here's a photo of Gavin Newsom doing a stunt photo shoot showing him throwing human beings' sole possessions in the world into the fucking trash. No one better than this is available. 2) Shut the fuck up Democrat loser

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

This is on @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @ericswalwell.bsky.social and @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co and everyone else who has aligned with the Republicans on their hyper Islamaphobic shit. You guys are the GOP.

This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.

none of the democrats claiming that the left is dragging the party down could replicate this in their wildest dreams

The singularity is awesome

If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.

Thinking, as I do often, about how DoorDash has a poorly flagged LLM functionality that writes purely speculative item descriptions, creating potentially false - and potentially deadly - information for people with allergies. More apps have health risks downstream of AI functionality than you think.

I don’t want to play Death Stranding 1 or 2 because I hate seeing digitized versions of Kojima’s best friends who also happen to be famous celebrities

Infinite love and support to the people of Iran and Palestine and anywhere else on earth unfortunate enough to be caught in the stupid, bloodthirsty gaze of America and Israel

Obama is actually a Forkrul Assail, this explains everything