amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

there has to be a term for people who are in fandom spaces just to talk about how much they hate the thing the fandom is for, right?

showing engineers a fake thing from a videogame (designed by non-engineers but made to *look* real) and asking them to explain it is kinda like fake-throwing a ball with a dog. sure, it's kinda vaguely cruel, but they're having fun anyway.

Isaiah Hodgson

Please. My labubu is very sick.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

this whole time i was convinced the genai boom was "idea guys" ecstatic they could just generate their dumb ideas, but it turns out it's "idea guys" who don't even have ideas.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.

the entire post 9/11 apparatus is now being fully utilized

why am i so aggravated by those stupid meme reaction gifs with the guy dressed in 18th century clothing

Beaten, but

nobody cares about your music streaming stats

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

we've been out-democracy'd by brazil. gg br

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

my most controversial take is that everyone over 50 should be banned from using self checkout

AI this, LLM that. i just wanna grill for gods sake!

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

we have reached the "ackshually it's *ephebophilia*" stage of political discourse

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

boomers love referring to their hands as "paws" yet hate furries. curious.

It's obviously not the ✨MAIN THING✨ going on in the emails, but why is it every time a bunch of emails of super-powerful rich people gets leaked they always read like the communications of barely-literate children (I know the answer to this question)?

Much of the Epstein files was sealed until 2024. These emails were just given to congressional Dems specifically, by the Epstein estate, who have recently been giving them access to certain files…like the Birthday note and drawing from Trump, as well.

that time of year again

pornstar named November Gale

people keep calling sandwich guy a "hero" but it's actually spelled "gyro"

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

interesting to learn what google will and will not allow on its app store apnews.com/article/appl...

videos with the sora watermark go viral too on some level people must suspect these are fake but it’s feeding you a version of reality you enjoy so who cares.

when you think about it, candy corn is just corn

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD. Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned). When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

since when the fuck is an SS totenkopf an "obscure" symbol

Just saw this thread on "The Shirley Exception", and I had to share it here. Please read the entire thing (long thread): 1/10

"honey did you remember to pay this month's bill for the dookie cam?"

Block button my beloved

Oh they’re really protecting the pedophiles this is bad

you know it's a good movie when the first ten minutes are the star/writer/director/executive producer talking down the barrel of a camera about how successful she is and how much she loves donald trump

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss. reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

king gizzard and the lizard wizard is just phish for millennials

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy