The “Moon economy” is about to boom

i think it’s obvious that social media and algorithms have flattened culture. there are as many communities and subcultures as you can think of but the distinction between them and “mainstream” culture is way less than it was before algorithmic feeds dominated the internet

bryce harper doing a full offseason of insane quasi-scientific medical procedures just for zack wheeler to show up to spring training with one of his ribs in a jar.

Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.

Sitting on my hand until it falls asleep so i can stroke my own hair and tell myself it's gonna be okay

Both bizarre and terrifying to watch the world’s largest military and police state in history animated by what is essentially an algorithm designed to make morons and racists keep looking at a screen

he's going to pardon everyone and the entire political class is going to shrug and try the "look forward not backward" routine

the doubles luge riders should be face to face

first day of the year to hit 45° and mister softee is out here driving around

aetna approved my breast augmentation but they said i have to show my new boobs to the cvs pharmacist every time i pick up my prescriptions ??

Sees article about new win for trans athlete community Asks community rag if it’s actually victory or just trans man competing in women’s league “It’s a good victory for trans athletes.” It’s trans man competing in women’s league

The truffle hunting pigs of Piedmont aren't the only stars in this sleepy northern Italian village

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

Maybe take seriously the idea that the people at the levers of implementation— the ones trying to replace people and shove "AI" into every aspect of our daily lives, whether we consent or not— will try to do that even if it's *Not Actually That Good*. www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...

This isn't AI but it should be

need this to become an artifact on the level of medieval churches hoarding pieces of jesus or some saints

sometimes the fellas just wanna sled together

i barely understand the luge already but doubles luge is just baffling

*takes hit of silicon valley blunt* what if instead of heart rate monitors on just the coaches, people at home wearing oura rings can opt in and then we show an average audience heart rate on the screen

regardless if AI that does it or not, but Chris is right that we should be thinking about what the proletarianization of the managerial and professional classes means for the movement

you heard 'em

45° weather making me want to act up

this also applies to people discussing communism and maybe is broadly applicable to every online discourse lol

dril candles tweet but it’s rotisserie chickens

A lot of low level accounting jobs are essentially human control points to prevent fraud, they haven't been automated not because it's impossible but because the amount of fraud you can commit against a fully automated purchasing system is basically unlimited

those poor saps in Texas think they're eating good barbecue. makes me sad to think about it

"the tee vee showed my drunk ass a fake businessman with a comb over who lied and said all my basest impulses were correct" does not equate to any sort of concrete understanding of economic reality and "kitchen table issues"

Muppets can go to hell

their entire strategy is now entirely contingent on never facing prosecution future because every single one of these guys are routinely engaging in perjury. each one of them is a weak link in a chain of command that is literally predicated on never facing consequences or else it all collapses.

that’s not very chive of you dudebro

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

every intelligence agency on the planet has these files by now. probably unredacted. every person implicated in these files is a prime target for influence operations. and it's a group that includes some of the must powerful people in the country

They’re trying to open the largest prisons-turned-camps in the hemisphere and it barely registers as an issue

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gatorade is owned by pepsico but it's the coca cola of the sports drink market. powerade in turn is owned by coca cola, but it's unquestionably the pepsi of sports drinks. this should be plainly obvious to all

call me canadian chip the way I'm all dressed

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

i cant believe the real napoleon is on here now

last night i asked a 5’10” girl if she wanted to form a tall girl power couple with me and she hasn’t responded 😢

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

scarce biscuits a terrible thought

i’m out

[threateningly] it’s baseball season.

true autism has never been tried

i went to the queer leftist artists & shitposters cluster and everyone there knew you