I keep thinking about the time my dad told me that I don't acknowledge the good things that generative AI does. and then he listed a bunch of things that aren't generative AI at all

The people who say they are opposed to participation trophies want their children to receive diplomas for refusing to learn and if anyone suggests their precious little unique dandruff flake has to actually do the work then off with their heads.

Why is everyone using semicolons instead of colons? Are they afraid they might look literate?

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

You had my money, and now you have my Follow... also on Steam, and RSS if you get down with that

Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought. www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

Just added a new site to my RSS aggregator. It doesn't happen often!

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

An ad for Google's goofy chatbot featuring unfortunate comma placement: "Sure, thing." Sure, thing?!

Seems like in aggregate homeless people might be better at keeping society safe than cops, idk

A cheap, honest sketch takes less time to craft than it takes to sweat out a prompt to be fed into a thought-dulling Earth-skullfucking machine

Anybody else remember when - occasionally - something cool or good used to happen? I swear this is real

all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.

the us does not ban operations on intersex children. laws banning trans healthcare are always written to exempt nonconsensual operations on intersex children. it's utterly horrific.

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“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary? “If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”

and, by the way, Ahmed el Ahmed is a hero at another fucking level but stop letting the Christian Right convince you Muslims and Jews are enemies, we are cousins and we naturally love each other, that’s why it takes a dictatorial level of control to radicalize either group against the other

people don't want an agentic os they want to do this

I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.

i stand by this statement every year

I've played most of these and they are good/fun bite-sized entertainments. check it out~

Post an everyday interaction consisting entirely of decisions that are incorrect. I'll go first. PERSON 1: *Sneezes wetly, half onto their hand and half into the open air* PERSON 2: Bless you PERSON 1: Thank you

I wish it were more prevalent. Consider the near-wall-to-wall apathy Fortnite kids have about The Before Times.

Enterprise is fuh.kin.cooked

Back when my then-girlfriend was in nursing school, we had dinner with one of her male classmates at their house. He thought it would be funny to, out of nowhere, blare Negativland's "Christianity Is Stupid." He feigned being taken aback when it fouled the mood. Weird choice. Memorable, though.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

I'm one of those weirdos who kinda think one 3D Metroid was enough. I think it's really special. I never finished it. I bought the remake but haven't gotten past the title screen.

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Starting to think Dano may have kompromat on Tino

It's unreal how AAA-pilled people still are when it comes to new games. I can't fathom that degree of thirst for blandness.

Cosmic Smash (Sega Rosso, SEGA Hitmaker, Sega, 2001)

this bandcamp friday, i want to give a special thank you to everyone that has supported my album EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate 50% of all sales have gone towards Trans Lifeline, and to-date we have donated over $8,300 usd towards the charity with your support. Thank you so, so much 🤍

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

It's a beautifully executed soundtrack.

1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here? 2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?

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Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

working at the nyt

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

I was worried my kids would rely on AI as a shortcut but they hate it. They use "AI" to mean stupid or cheap ("aimbot" means good). I tried to say AI is helpful for some things and my daughter said "yeah, for making you stupid." This is how they talked about Drake after "Not Like Us" came out

Nvidia: For all RMA requests, our chatbots will be happy to help start the return process Also Nvidia:

We hit 500 reviews!! Faye will get her pretzel! That said, what we really want is for the reviews to turn "overwhelmingly positive." that means we need 15 more positive reviews to tick it up from 94% to 95%. So if you haven't reviewed the game yet, your vote makes a heck of a difference! Go go go!

Tired: chainsaw man mangaka was clearly looking at porn, no one else wears black shorts a white top and a black tie Wired: team ico ripped this kay sage painting clean from the bone for shadow of the colossus

Lends some credence to the post-acute-sequelae component of disease theory I've come to espouse I think it's the absence of the viral infection (especially covid, statistically) moreso than the enhanced ability to resist / odds of resisting it vaccines address

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Pretzel Time!