people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Hey, news reporters... When Trump says "she ran him over," he's lying. It's not a 'dueling narrative'. It's a fucking lie. If you quote him, and then fail to *immediately* point out that the statement is utterly and demonstrably false, your outlet will be instantly blocked in my aggregators.

From here on out, I'm just going to refer to him as President ██████████████.

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

I know it's always been the same fucking guys but it's ALL THE SAME FUCKING GUYS

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Fuck decorum.

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating

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Everyone who called me a doomer for saying politically motivated arrests would begin within three months can earn my forgiveness by sending me $100 today

vibes..........

Yes, Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz violated all sorts of national security protocols by sharing military secrets with a journalist. But at least they were White when they did this. by Charlie Kirk

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

It's now absolutely time for the corporate news media to stop with the insipid, obsequious coverage of this administration. This is the moment. This needs to be rejected wholesale, everywhere, all the time.

The cicada lifestyle is more appealing than ever. Hiding underground for the next 17 years only to emerge screaming, that's living the dream.

low carb bread is a fun preview of what the rations will be like when we're in the penal space mining colonies

Yeah, so, hey... A centi-billionaire does not give a shit about other people. How do I know this? Because they're a centi-billionaire.

Also, noticing that the three fundamentals are remaining utterly reliable. - They will always be staggeringly incompetent - They will always be brazenly, arrogantly corrupt. - They will always turn on each other and eat their own.

So, for a couple of years, I routinely felt like corporate media was trying to gaslight me by relentlessly normalizing and sane-washing the most categorically unfit candidate in history. And now, after said candidate has won, we're to believe all that journalistic hackery had nothing to do with it?

AI is a scam.

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

"If "Did Not Vote" had been a presidential candidate, they would have beaten Donald Trump by 9.1 million votes, and they would have won 21 states, earning 265 electoral college votes." www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024...

I don't care what you have to explain to a 4-year-old, because that's between you and the 4-year-old. But when you say I can't be seen anywhere because of your kid, now you're making it about me, and now we've got a problem. One group is unilaterally being pushed out of public visibility.

They said that same bullshit about gay people holding hands. I am not doing this again

Consider that Disney Corp folded for Trump, gave him millions of dollars, and threw ABC News (and news media more broadly) under the bus by extending an apology for something that shouldn't have been apologized for. Now consider the types of stories Disney tells, through their various properties.

The US health care industry in one graph.

Trump won the election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history (just under 1.5%), but in news deserts - counties lacking a professional source of local news-it was an avalanche, winning these counties by an average of 54 percentage pts. 1/4 www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-n...

I wrote about how the Newsweek and LA Times "bias meters" are designed to distract plebs from the fact the real bias in our failing media is unchecked right wing billionaire power

The sudden clutching of pearls about Bluesky possibly becoming an "echo chamber" is really quite something. Don't worry, kids. Everyone to the left of religious ethno-nationalist authoritarian kleptocrats being on the same platform will not lead to an ideological monolith. You can rest easy.

Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.

It's getting to be that time again.

You cannot reach across the aisle to people who have left the building.

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"Forgive them father, for they know not wha....BLEEEUUUURGGHGHGGHGHGGHHHGHG!"