Just start a game of cookie clicker if you need to disorder your thinking this way

Smart stuff from Dylan, as is customary. I really do feel like my relationship with art deepened the moment I cut the word “fan” out of my vocabulary.

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

The extreme irony of a despicable worm of Charlie Kirk being shot is that his job was to rub the populace’s face in violence, dance on graves, justify and argue for murder, and making fun of his teeth or whatever made you accessory to his death and beyond the political norm

Man, remember when the internet was 90% riffing on silver age comic panels? Now we're all communists and/or nazis reacting to crowd work clips. What happened to us

Imagining each bullet holes in the survivorship bias plane was a bright red apple and then counting to 5 so all the bullet holes disappear

【English】WE WERE REINCARNATED INTO A WORLD OVERRUN BY MONSTERS, BUT IT'S NO BIG DEAL!! BECAUSE GOD GAVE US A MYSTERIOUS DECK OF CARDS THAT ENABLE INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATIONS!! SO WE'RE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER TO TRY AND SAVE THIS WORLD: THE MANGA (1/2)

YERRRRRROUTTT!!! WALK!! anything could happen in the MLB tonight- including the dreaded strikeout and dreaded base on balls

candy saved my life (had some when i really wanted some once)

Man I'm at my limit for hearing rationalizations and criticisms of the good cops or bad cops behavior in the oppressive system They work together, if you're not starting there whatever you're saying is meaningless

Absolutely fuck this robot, burn it, send it to hell But also, all the bullshit the robot spewed to tell this kid to off himself is the echo of thousands of evils in the training data and fuck all those people too

i'd like to start a new subculture for people like me who are apartment dwellers and aren't allowed to have a gas or charcoal grill. we'll be like barbecue guys only for microwaves. we'll wear shirts to work that say "i'd rather be microwavin'!" and share microwave steak recipes and stuff

Gary has been working more recently, it's been ok. He is beginning to no longer see the fae folk though, when he makes it to the woods. The nymphs no longer sing for him. But Tina needs braces, and Clara would love a new porch. He got longer than most, he reminds himself.

Recruiters and HR personnel have no sense of romance or fantasy, so I explain the pause in my résumé by either vaguely referencing a sick relative (interviewer is smart or a woman) or insinuating I was a spy (dumb man).

Ronald McDonald is such a good clown name. You wouldn't have thought of it. You would have given him something obvious like Bloopers McBurger, the name of a clown. They gave him the name of a man.

Prison guard is not a job human beings are meant to do. Locking people up actually makes you insane, never mind being locked up

Numerous writers & activists who came of age in the “Battle of Seattle”/World Social Forum warned that far right-wing nationalism wld be the response to neoliberal globalization if the social contract - welfare, unionization, wage growth - were not restored.

Me: you think if a dog met another dog who didn’t have a butthole they would feel the terror a human has when they meet the faceless man? The faceless man: I don’t think it’s comparable, dogs look at other dogs’ faces too it’s not just sniffing butts with them Me: yeah

Love to look at the news on my phone and try to think about anything else other than murder,

I think this only works with niche-in-a-niche games changing to a more mainstream aesthetic while also taking out the special sauce for freaks (guilty gear, atelier) The special sauce usually wasn't what hampered the growth, like EDF might boom w new graphics but not by streamlining gameplay

There's no better prank than having a child. Pulling a guy out of oblivion like congratulations these are all your problems now