heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

I've been working remotely in digital media for the past 11 years and have, in that time, published something like 12,500 bylines. Imagine how much more productive I could have been with a commute!

...cats and dogs, living together...

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Samsung's OneUI 8/Android 16 broke the universal fullscreen app option I love for browsers and other apps. Android 16 is supposed to make transparent/hidden naviation and status bars universal. Apparently Vivaldi is not compliant yet. Android fanboy that I am, sometimes I envy iOS its uniformity.

someone asked reddit how their 40s were going

I first thought "LitRPG" books (Dungeon Crawler Carl et al) were popular because video games were Gen Z's baseline for fantasy. Like LOTR and Harry Potter for most older English-speakers. Now I think it's because video games are quickly becoming the baseline for ALL fiction, of any kind.

An entire industry of animators looks over at Disney, remaking a cartoon about a shapeshifting teddy bear from space that lands in Hawaii, in live action, with disdain. Disney doesn't look up as it counts $400M in tickets. Sony begins planning a live-action reboot of K-Pop Demon Hunters.

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

Data: I listened to that comedian podcast you recommended but couldn’t detect any jokes. Perhaps my emotion chip is malfunctioning? Wesley: Nah bro, they’re not really trying to be funny. They’re trying to be curious

So. The Hades II ending. I think Supergiant has such a reputation for deftly combining gameplay and story that they felt they had something to prove... But yeah, a Zelda style "story's over, keep playing if you want to" would have served better here. Certainly offered up something more satisfying.

This is a great way to think of it Every team I've ever been on that succeeds inevitably has some spreadsheet cruncher come in and say "I like this number, we should have more of this number" And that changes why we were so good at that number in the first place bsky.app/profile/ryst...

Dionysus has a little rubber ducky in Hades II. It is wearing a fig leaf.

Starbuck Thrace is so cool-coded I can't handle it. you can't see it but she's also doing sick tech deck tricks with her other hand behind the console

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Backing this up - Some of the worst humans I know and have worked personally with were some of the chummiest, "let's get drinks"-iest, "not so bad in person"-ey people I've ever met. Some of the most astounding racists I've met said they were "big fans of my work." They know how to play this game.

Reposting and bookmarking to share with students in my sci comm class in the winter about why I believe that me telling them not to use genAI is in their best interest.

He didn't know who he was dealing with

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

Dammit @edzitron.com, this is your fault. www.pcworld.com/article/2917...

EFF is proud to join dozens of labor, digital rights, and other advocates in support of California’s “No Robo Bosses Act.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

why does this feel like a description of AI

what the hell is anything

I've had to manually delete a LinkedIn account three times now. This time it didn't even have a password, I had to CREATE a password for an account I didn't make and never wanted. It looks like it just made an account for me whole cloth because I was logged into Google and looked at LinkedIn.

With “Find My Parking Cops,” technologist Riley Walz reverse engineered San Francisco’s parking ticket system to place cops on a map seconds after they issue parking citations—in theory, helping people avoid spots where officers are handing out tickets. 🔗 www.404media.co/find-my-park...

To me, this is cinema.

I see that advertising case is still on the Google executives' mind. Gotta suck up to the fascists, otherwise you might not make every last possible dollar from your illegal monopoly.

Attention, internet: I would like all of you to know that Cera the Triceratops from the 1988 animated feature film The Land Before Time has a father, and that his name is Daddy Topps. Thank you, that is all.

I've got this USB battery myself, it's pretty great. Still not my favorite since it lacks the built-in wall outlet, but it's smaller and can output at up to 45 watts for faster refills, and still has the built-in cable. $25 today. www.pcworld.com/article/2917...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

DID YOU KNOW: the R.O.B. amiibo works with four times as many games as the actual R.O.B. does

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

god fucking dammit my country is run by the goddamn dumbest chucklefucks

What if the announcement was just you don’t have to mask your autism anymore and we all love you just as you are? It won’t, though. It won’t be.

Taking a brief break from our regular tech coverage to share an important message: An Engadget reporter's sister is missing, and North Vancouver RCMP is asking for assistance in locating her.

You fucking morons gave a fucking moron a bunch of power and expected him to act like anything less than a fucking moron? Or maybe you were just hoping he'd somehow be limited to your very specific, very fucking moronic brand of fucking moron.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

I'll be hopping in Saturday night.

Apropos of nothing...youtu.be/4SV_njZdEdw...

But I've said all this before.

Nova Launcher, the go-to "power user" Android launcher for most of the people I know, is dying. Smart Launcher ia the first replacement I've tried that seems to replicate all of my necessary functions. I'll be it with a very expensive price... but considering how much I use it, not unreasonable.

All those publications that fired their fact checkers but found money for agreements with OpenAI and its ilk will surely change their ways any moment now, right? Right?

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.