i didn't like tom goes to the mayor when i was 13 years old and I will never forgive that teenage bitch for her bad taste. set me back 20 years at least

Consume Me is by far the best game I played from last year.

i'm in this alongside many cool people !!

The United States is a lawless imperialist nation run by a pseudo-dictator. Fuck this government and everyone who enables this situation.

How Christopher Nolan fans feel about Tenet is probably how I feel about all his movies.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

protect trans kids

transitioning is the best choice i’ve ever made in my life and the only regret i have with it is that i didn’t do it when i was younger

"Maybe I'm naive," and proceeds to write the most naive sentence I've ever read. You can't have common interest on improving conditions with another person if the other is racist, because the racist person believe the presupposition that that your conditions shouldn't be improved!

I wrote my entire 100,000 word dissertation in Sublime Text without so much as a grammar checker. I want to emphasize to everyone, everywhere, that you can do amazing things without AI or some machine correcting you! They're nice, I guess, but you're better than them.

The trick is to spend years in grad school learning all this stuff only to turn it off when you hit play because you’re too busy crying that bob from bobs burgers got stuck to a toilet to care about the cinematography.

This whole media cycle around him has now convinced me Tarantino has bad taste. Not because his top 10 list is bad, but because the way he talks about movies is so weird. He often sounds like someone who hates them???

A concerning development of my lifetime is how little the American populace seems interested in personal virtue. This is particularly true in regards to politics, but pervades most leadership in institutions across the country. The idea of doing the "right thing," per ones moral code, has evaporated

IQ is a measure of how good you are at IQ tests, which is something informed by how familiar you are with taking academic tests (& thus the quality of your school, which is in part determined by your parents' wealth, etc). there's nothing in particular that makes them a good test of intelligence

Yup, those sure are my kids five favorite songs.

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."

[trans people fired from all federal jobs] [trans people fired from all military jobs] [trans people fired from jobs everywhere] [cis people fired for being accused of being trans] [cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist] [trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi] liberal:

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

This situation is a constant worry for me as faculty. I get anxious every semester that some contorted series of events will lead to me losing my job because I am trans.

This thread is good, though I will say as a instructor who has taught writing for 10 years, attendance, syllabus comprehension, assignment understanding, and ability to engage with material are all within the normal range lately. AI creates headaches for sure, but...

know my opinion is worthless and i'm organizing by tiers: Great: A New Hope | Empire Strikes Back Good: Return of the Jedi Okay: Last Jedi | Force Awakens | Revenge of the Sith Not good: Phantom Menace | Rogue One Weird: Attack of the Clones Bad: Solo Offensively bad: Rise of Skywalker

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So much of gaming discussion is criticizing stuff nobody has even played. I'm kind of glad to not be writing about games lately. I just don't care about a single game if I haven't played it.

If you look at this chart, especially with the way the numbers are colored and displayed and the percentages attached to them, you can come to the epress conclusion that LGBTQ rights, social programs, DEI, police brutality, etc. are unimportant to voters. Then you read the fine print... (1/X)

i feel so bad for artists who now have to deal with accusations that their work is ai Its so demeaning to the life of work they put into their art, and it must suck to have to argue that your work is in fact your own. If you can draw, that's really cool, I think you are great.

It feels like our democracy is less and less "I vote for the leaders who will best solve the problems important to me" and more and more "I vote for the leaders who will enact my policy desires," and that is a complete disaster. Popularism is a cancer.

imagine a world where just one tech company founder was kinda cool. I'm not even asking for awesome, just like... not the worst?

the macbook + steamdeck combo is goated

Like no offense, but it's a fucking nightmare just existing as a trans person. It wasn't anywhere near as bad back in the mid 2010s.

It used to be that this kind of reporting was reserved for a CEO like Steve Jobs actually presenting a new technology on a stage that would be for sale that year. Now a CEO tweets and it's on every god damn news outlet like it's already real. Musk promised a man on Mars in 10 years... in 2011!

I wish I had taught English composition from 1970-2015 so I would have never had to deal with ChatGPT, which has made all grading a miserable, meandering, experience.

"X doesn't violate our Y policy" is corporate speak for "we don't wanna do it." Even if it doesn't violate their policy (which it probably does), their policy isn't written in stone or given by god. It can be changed in response to evolving situations and often is when it suits them!

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

Video game criticism is so far behind the actual audiences of video games. In some ways video game journalism still acts like it's 1995 when evaluating the "entire field."

my 3 year old knows about zombies through the music video for thriller, so the only thing they think zombies do is dance.

In 2026 I'm gonna embrace being wrong sometimes (and being willing to be corrected) rather than trying to be right all the time, which is exhausting.

if I wrote a video essay on every single episode of adventure time every day i could finish the project within a year of starting. i'd also probably finish off my sanity in the process

The whole situation is absurd, but this is such a bizarre statement. A former public professional relationship is exactly the kind of situation where one may feel obliged to distance themselves from a mold-brained freak. I can't think of a situation more personally necessary to critique someone.

Fascist babies use AI slop to yearn for a Walmart that never was, whereas Costco exists right now as do the Costco guys

I wonder how long until movie studios realize they could just take older animated movies, redub them with famous actors from today, and rerelease them in theaters. Seems to be exactly the kind of the craven execs would want to do. (Sorry for speaking this evil into the world)

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I feel like people tend to pick items/tools/skills in games like Silksong which they think will make the game easier for them. I think that's the wrong choice most of the time, you should pick the items/tools/skills that will make you better at the game/master the game's mechanics.

One reason I dont watch a lot of normal political content from liberals is because it's clear that so much of their political project is just "owning the right wingers" for likes and clicks.

Rush

If Jimmy Fallon, the least offensive idiot to ever grace late night television, is on the chopping block, every person who doesn't wear a MAGA hat should assume they're in danger of losing their jobs too.

We're living in the future where absolutely anyone Trump doesn't like, or Trump might not like, is risking their job. He's not even popular you capitulating morons!

Conservatives make way more sense if you accept that whatever they want to be true is true as far as they're concerned. You find this tendency across the entire spectrum of right wing beliefs. It's more spiritually certain way to live, that's for sure. It's also abhorrent.