This is one of the truest statements I've seen on the art of comment moderation.

Yep. And it dovetails with a thing I've seen artists mention: the same execs who'd nitpick art with the brand standard book in one hand for minor Pantone variations etc. will happily ship LLM-generated stuff with extra fingers, because it was never about "quality", just "control" and "resentment".

My "This is not a golden calf" t-shirt is provoking a lot of questions answered by the t-shirt.

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

Set a personal best 5km time today (previous was 35'19", shattered both 35 and 34 somehow to hit a 33'49" which is awesome) and surprisingly I'm not really feeling any issues in my legs -- even took Chunk Dog for a walk-n-fetch. If I can't move tomorrow, it was nice knowing you all.

The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

Regarding Ben Solo: of course a kid raised by a literal princess and her bad-boy career criminal husband is going to have conduct problems. They should have let the Jawas raise him. He's space-SBF.

Must remember to not engage with people arguing in bad faith.

As someone who followed it myself, I still think a lot of high-profile people who fanned those particular flames (even if out of ignorance) never got the blame or pushback they deserved, either.

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

Something about a blue and red button, with apologies to @existentialcomics.com

Weird how Ezra Klein apparently exists in a time portal to 2015 back when that was Elon's full-time mask.

I try not to be too much of a troll these days, but I will 100% always troll anyone from a culture that insists cats MUST be outdoor or indoor/outdoor animals.

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

This subthread is pure gold, regarding why it seems like so many elected LGBTQ folks (especially the trailblazers) don't SEEM to be quite doing enough for their fellows.

Like, I could honestly believe that this is just a lost Mitch Hedberg routine.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

If Chris Roberts is the Francis Ford Coppola of game designers, then Peter Molyneux is the M. Night Shyamalan of game designers. I will not be taking questions.

The best indication so far the WHCD Trump shooting wasn't staged? No evidence yet of huge insider bets just before it happened on Polymarket or Kalshi :-)

Flight sim RPG vacations! You pay your money and for a week you get to hang out with a bunch of Star Wars or Wing Commander nerds, with access to full VR motion simulator cockpits and somebody whose job it is to come up with a fun storyline and series of missions based on the pilot's preferences.

In contrast, joy gets under their skin. They cannot stand a happy person who they believe should be miserable.

From my own academic experience, there are three kinds of graduate-degree-havers: - "I want to be an expert in my field." - "I am willing to grind for a piece of paper, but once I have it none of my studies have any relevance for my ongoing life." - "I am monomaniacal about one specific thing."

"I do believe the Monsignor finally got the point."

Surprising no one (who is paying attention):

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

Amusingly I am somehow on both a pro-AI blocklist and an anti-AI blocklist.

I love running, except when I'm doing it.

It's funny how even Heinlein, in his most ostentatiously quasi-fascist novel wherein one could only be a citizen if they volunteered for national service, didn't think that that said service would be solely military. (Good ol' Starship Troopers)

This is exactly the same as the "critical race theory" thing -- taking a term of art that is pretty much only used as a term of art and bringing it into the public consciousness in a way that does not accurately reflect how it's used. The only question is, why is a Democrat doing it?

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

"Ooooh, great warrior, heh heh heh. Wars not make one great!" Yoda 3:16

Less "tempting the evil eye" and more "speaking it into existence", but by god my Rogue Squadron campaign that's been semi-cooking for a decade and a half might actually launch soon. And we're doing it old school. West End Games 2ER&E!

Actually everyone on bsky: "Why are we spending so much money on boondoggles like the LCS and F-35s instead of the much cheaper stuff that matters for day-to-day operations?" The Navy: *spends so much on expensive boondoggles and not enough on logistics that sailors can't eat properly* You:

I'll be super honest -- if I had more than $10m in the bank, I would simply not be afraid of any proposed finance or tax issue that didn't reduce the order of magnitude of my wealth.

This is Maya. She just graduated from obedience training. May have gotten a little carried away while celebrating. 12/10 (IG: mayalapitbull)

Is there anything sadder than a white fascist just completely making up shit that never happened to be scared of?

As usual, "ideologically diverse" seems to mean "we welcome people who are so right-wing and misogynist it makes you want to puke, plus a couple of apolitical centrists".

I feel like this statement is very relevant to a couple of things that @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has posted over the past few months.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

One of the other things that dies this week, with Orbán's loss and Trump's fit at the pope, is the perception of right-wing politics as the continuation of a successful 80s anticommunist revolution, when the pope, Reagan, and dissidents like Orbán were often depicted as a coherent ideological bloc

It's kinda emblematic of how far "the right" in the modern Western nations has fallen into "cult of personality" pseudo-populism.

I know it's a silly thing to get happy about, but man I really do enjoy blocking TERFs and Nazis without engaging with their horseshit.

If you had told me in 2003 that Bill Kristol would be on the right side, and JK Rowling would be on the wrong side, of the battle against fascism during the reign of President Donald Trump, I’d have made fun of you.

‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Plot That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

if you’re a dude reading this like “gawrsh this is awful what can i do” it is 100% to shut down your cousins / friends / bros when they do shit like this. Shame them. Impose social stigma for them lesser weevils who think harassing marginalized people in creative industries is OK

Excellent thread on why "LLM" "art" cannot supplant human artists.

Cis Dudes: "OMFG, I would never work with women. That's girly." Labor Statistician: "They're right. It's like pulling teeth to get them to work as dental hygienists." TERF: "But they'll get an orchi and go on hormones for a $10k tuition discount at SE Mid Middling State." Other TERFs: "So true."

Usual reminder: please don't donate to arbitrary unvetted sob stories here, because a stunningly large number of them originate from online scammer groups who are also organ harvesting kidnappers. I'm not making that up.

Wealth hoarding to the point of mass immiseration always leads to wealth destruction and violence. Always. You would think the $B-aires would be educated enough to remember this, but instead they gamble that their generation will die with their hoards intact. They even hate their children.

There are many days one can celebrate as Happy Confederate Surrender day, but 9 April (celebrating the below-average "general" and traitor Robert E. Lee failing to break out and surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox) is a pretty good one.