he literally dangled from power lines meant to symbolize the dilapidated Puerto Rican power grid

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

So tired of crashing out every few weeks like I would like peace and maybe a positive feeling please

from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Stopped by NPR and found myself a perfectly sized desk.

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

I remember Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama sleeping through the Hortmans, to both give heartfelt condemnation of violence in regards to Charlie Kirk mere hours after he died. and Look! The dumbfuck twins back fast asleep when its not a fascist being murdered.

The British police did the same at the vigil of Sarah Everard who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Wayne Couzens, a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In a patriarchal society all police officers including female, black and white are and always will be institutionally racist and misogynistic.

the day today tier paragraph

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Still wild that they made ChatGPT 4o, people called them out for 4o glazing and affirming the user too much that it became uncomfortable, so they replaced it with a 5th version, *then* brought 4o back when some users missed the absurd praise from their bot, and now 4o has a death count

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

wanting to send a post to someone i’m no longer in speaking terms with… technology has unlocked new forms of yearning

one annoying thing here is that in the series of shots showing the man being thrown out of the window into the snow, his clothes change. can the AI prompt programs really not handle "make that one again, but put the man in the same clothes as this other one"?

The thing that gets me about this is that even if we wanted to make a positive AI ad, they never showcase AI being used to enhance someone’s day or improve their workflow. There’s no “it allows me to more easily do what I love.” It’s always presented as a failsafe for the dispassionate and incurious

Wishes may bring problems such that you regret them. Better that, though, than to never get them.

On Saturday December 13th, I will be hosting: “The Worst Charity Stream” For every 1000 dollars we raise, I will play Shenmue 3: Enhanced Edition for an additional hour There will be guests. There Will be a punishment wheel. Money raised will be in aid of Palestine www.twitch.tv/supereyepatc...

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

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

You're still somehow part of my life, and you won't go away.

shoutouts to toby fox for just doing this when a platform tells him he HAS to add achievements to his games

The Israel part of this article was already abhorrent but I really love how by the end it turns into “now that Zohran has won with overwhelming support, the smart thing to do would be to give up every single policy he campaigned on otherwise people may not support him”

is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day

this is legit one of the saddest things i have ever seen

I ASKED TO BE LEFT ALONE STOP MESSAGING PLEASEEEEEE I’M ON MY KNEES LEAVE ME ALONEEEEEEEE

The part of the Dan and Phil video that hits the feels the most is when Dan goes "was it always gay?" And Phil goes "yep. the whole time." Dan: "We fell into it hard and fast in 2009."

Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron. Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Wild that EA managed to find a buyer who cares about video game workers even less than EA.

guy in 3000 bc: remember when tools were made of stone 🪨 now every thing is bronze 😡 we used to live in cave ⛰️ now we sleep in hut 😪 instead of hunting ox 🐮 we make them pull plow 🌾 who else wish we could go back 😩

I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm. Indifferent to tensions and shocks.

technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight

It feels like the Times shifted hard into “actually we will determine reality” mode after 10/7 and never came back. Luigi shit, mayor’s race, now this. Reporting from a world that doesn’t exist, for no one.

In January 1851, Tolstoy wrote in his diary, “I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.”

Letter in The Observer today. “I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”

Hey, are you games PR with some Switch 1 codes to burn? My neighbor's kid turns 12 this month and long story short, has had a rough year! Grandma (helped raise him since mom is single) passed away, he's helping mom with disabilities, etc. But he's a great kid. Looking to surprise him with some games

One Piece flag at the Nepal Gen-Z protests.

I owe an apology to Etsy witches, I was unfamiliar with your game

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

An interesting thing about Silksong is the way that it combines elements of the classic Metroid and Castlevania games. Could this be the start of a new genre?

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"