"Everyone is a Consumer Now" is almost certainly the biggest cultural victory of Neoliberalism and the thing that most pop criticisms of neoliberalism don't seem to get

Getting into VR is teaching me so many new rites and rituals The casting of the Circle of Protection (or "denote room boundary" as meta calls it) 👌🏻 The Rite of Open Universal Menu The Rite of Unlock Computer While Wearing Headset The Rite of Accidentally Step Out Of Boundary And SteamVR Crashes

Ohh, THAT’S what I was smelling

person who's against this research because Claude welfare vs. person who's against this research because it informs theory on how to ablate humans

another day working at the p-zombie factory. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the claude. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

sure wish this was all being worked out in academia instead of in these psycho corporations

also its largely the teen birth rate thats falling!!!! these people suck so bad!!!!

Good news! Tech startup is trying to kill the familiar nuisance of “itt get’s to dark when night” theconversation.com/the-u-s-just...

Somebody should turn Ezekiel into a kart racer based on slab / low-rider culture And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around. (Ezekiel 1:18, ESV)

Hard sci-fi writing prompt idea What if the resolution to the Fermi paradox is that space travel takes way more resources than we thought and no starting planets have enough of them to germinate interstellar civilization Like, whats going to happen to human rocketry once we run out of fossil fuels

Complete control of value incoming

Someday I want to see a really well reported story from the Iranian side on how they managed to systematically destroy the entire US military base archipelago America had built and relied on for decades, and why the US couldn’t protect them. We kind of shrug and move on but it’s astonishing.

They sold a “guide to common freshwater and saltwater sharks in California” I feel like if you need the shark field guide, your trip’s already gone unrecoverably off the rails

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Hey wait that's not a hexagon at all! It's not even a pentagon! it's got ten of God's own sides! cmonnn 814c3ffffffffff, what are you trying to pull over here

What? You mean to tell me straight women *like* getting flustered by the guys they like?? Alien concept, sounds fake tbh

Did you know that hexagons don’t tile clearly in other hexagons

"Pentagons are just hexagons without one side." - Uber engineer Joseph Gilley, 2018

Me: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no

[TADC SPOILERS] now that the TADC finale is out on YouTube, I think it’s incredible that bo en’s “too much for you” theme is a diminished form of the “somebody real” leitmotif Jax’s swan song was literally him falling just one note short of the “connection” theme

You know what I would like to see @samreich.bsky.social and @bencollins.bsky.social collab to put a cerebral political mystery thriller on @dropout.tv and @infowars Now THAT would move subscriptions

you own a media company nobodys stopping you!!!!!

Don’t worry they’ll just pay the contractor again to fix it again

big the cat listens to prog rock

just deleted 190gb of downloaded youtube videos from my phone. gosh i REALLY wish there were a way to move them to "watch later", but no...

Me: Ah crap after updating Bazzite, audio is always muted even though pipewire definitely recognizes me plugging in my headphone cable… do I have to open alsamixer with whatever env var disables pulse audio or rmmod something or… Also me: *had plugged in the wrong end of the wrong cable*

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

I'm just gonna leave this here.

God they’re having so much fun. I wanna be there!

What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN.

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

generally the most important thing about citing sources is that it allows curious people to find more things to read

Things are going on in New York right that people may not understand for thousands of years

put a few hours into Mina the Hollower and I‘m not breaking any new ground when i say that it rules. what a triumph.

new career beurocrat path just dropped: Forward-Deployed Lobbyist. It’s not just advocacy — it’s precision engineering to create legislative outcomes the company actually depends on. Here’s why that matters:

I still think Cortana messing up the coordinate systems on Halo Installation 04’s transportation grid should screw up his body‘s homochirality and fuck with his metabolism

“As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments” So Anthropic doesn’t object to the control, they object to the decorum

band name suggestion: Tater and the Tots

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

It’s interesting to me that GPS is noticeably worse in Chicago than NYC. Does anybody know why this is? Location fixes have a much larger estimation radius and take much longer, especially when exiting subway stations, which is notable because NYC has no connectivity underground

I just realized what this is It’s the Un-Pride decoration Watch, it’ll be there on Jun 30 and gone July 1

Lady Googoo

i never thought the shiver me timbers party would shiver ME timbers

A calculator is just a messaging app Text field, keyboard on bottom, a big “send” button in the corner. When you click send, your message shows up on the top of the app and you get a response back

i'm really hoping that anthropic's push toward usage pricing over subscription pricing will force companies to reevaluate how they spend resources on this both undershooting OR overshooting the bill will be costly once enterprise customers have to estimate their own usage!

author of famed sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus blamed for creation of Torment Nexus

We need to recruit more transmascs into Warhammer. I know loads of transfem and enby folk in the hobby but I'm not sure I know any transmasc hobbyists and that makes me kinda sad. This is a open call for trans dudes to paint warhammer with us please come hang out with us we're cool honest

Global headline focused on one geopolitical region → it will be a ★★★☆☆-intrigue day Global headline focused on one neighborhood → it will be an ★★★★☆-intrigue day But if the global headline focuses on one valve of a compressed gas tank sitting in some guy’s backyard → Today will be ★★★★★ for sure