Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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someone asked on insta what “be brave enough to be kind” means and why i say it on my podcast and at screenings being kind is always a vulnerability - it exposes your belly. love puts us in harm’s way always. we gotta find the courage to risk being hurt. or else i don’t know what the point is.

Here's a simple happiness hack: Do something for someone that is truly altruistic. Do it in secret if you can, and take no credit, if you can manage that in a world that sees everything. Do this as often as your circumstances allow, which may be once a year or once a day. Try it and see.

“Imagine if we truly understand complex whale communication & can extend our term ‘language’ to them. Such breakthroughs would not only rewrite biology textbooks but also fundamentally redefine what it means to be human & pave the way to instituting new protections for whales, the ocean & beyond”🧪

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

Emotionally intelligent people are better to be around in real life, but if you write all the characters in your fiction as emotionally intelligent it's gonna be boring

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

hm, well i don't know who this person is or what she does but based on a screencap someone posted of something she wrote years ago ive decided that she has to be destroyed

Absolutely kickass story by C.Z. Tacks up in lightspeed today. a rad as hell cyberpunk story about sex work that is, in case I didn't make it clear enough, fucking rips. you want to read this story. you WILL read this story.

If youre not on Twitter right now it's like 90% posts of movie clips where the description is just the first sentence uttered in the clip. Entire site full of "the real understand" energy

People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.

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Until somebody throws a bigger sandwich

AI psychosis "the chatbot is my best friend" type stuff is so alien to me because the few times I've been forced to interact with one of those things I immediately start telling it to kill itself out of pure irresistible disgust

sometimes the heritage and history you inherit are way more fucked up and colonial than you thought! preening tech billionaires are ruining the planet! fuck the pentagon specifically! drop {spoiler} to his {spoiler} from a height! these are all great

one of my last big posts over there and maybe the maddest I have ever seen people get at me, including many people with whom I was actually in a physical fight with where we were hitting each other in the bodies to cause pain

hideo kojima: my next game is about a guy who delivers packages video game executive: cool. sounds very normal kojima: [lightning strikes in the distance] i assure you it is not

you know what you must do, denis. our plans that weigh centuries like so many grains of sand come at last to fruition. the power is within your hands to restore our world's peace. to set right the scales so long unbalanced. rebecca ferguson as james bond. the time is now. everything has led to this.

Man, I hadn't watched AEW in a while, and they're killing it lately. Omega. Ospreay. Swerve. Hangman. Toni Storm. Mercedes. Okada. Okay, Okada's only giving like 40%, but he's Kazuchika Okada, that check still clears.

This is a level five Goof Situation, all users report to Riff Stations

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

people like Yarvin are NOT INTERESTING. they're bog standard American fascists, which is to say they skimmed a lot of fantasy and history books from public libraries and then learned what those books meant from 4chan

The ACT Party is also cursed

no man has better earned the title of Mr. Movies

(to the tune of Arabian Nights) 🎶American Pope🎶

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"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

we did it. america has invented scheming courtiers maneuvering for the mad king's ear and favor

I think about this post fucking daily. It has ruined my mind. I'm always wanting to say "But they're so esoteric!" and I dread the day I cannot rush to stop my idiot mouth before it blurts that phrase out unprompted in the workplace

"cheap goods from China" is such a 1990s brain thing to say. Yes China has cheap good, they also have really expensive goods, because you know what, it's the biggest country in the world.

"your opinion is worthless, shut the fuck up" is exactly the correct response to all the racist transphobic whiners bitching about the existence of anyone who isn't a white male in video games

aussiemandias be like "yeah go on, look on my fuckin works cunt and have a sook"

It is a fucking embarrassment for our species that this post has six likes. I think about "potato cheop" six times per day

i think there is a significant difference between saying "these people are hypocrites" or "they'll be sorry when the state comes for them". they see the state as a gun and they are pointing it at you.

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

I give up. I am defeated. I cannot wrest meaning from this "sentence."

every new netflix show is called some shit like "coarse ground mustard" and based on an unethically sourced dramatic reenactment of an r/amitheasshole thread. whats all that shit about

Never Doubt Big Jim

most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt

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