gamers price up

watching the jamaican episode of murder she wrote. it is: a) set on a plantation b) featuring john rhys davies basically saying slurs the whole time c) voodoo

BREAKING NEWS: A local woman, Dolores Bustamante, detained by ICE during a routine check-in, is set to be released.

lmao

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

the job of journalists in 2026 is now exclusively to pretend that the world came into being exactly eight minutes ago

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

hi, it's my birthday!! for anyone who wants to help me celebrate, i'd love for people to be told any of: - a happy memory we've shared - a way my work has resonated with, interested, or inspired you - a table story from playing one of my games

Boots Riley is resolute in his belief that AI proponents and studio heads who say that gen AI is the future of filmmaking are simply lying. Read the full interview from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

i love uncritically accepting propaganda as much as the next guy, but,

can the vatican partnering with an ai company finally signal the end of posts about the 'cool woke pope' or whatever

SCOOP: BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers and give that data to law enforcement, 404 Media has learned.

the real idiots are clients. why are you hiring a contracting firm that specializes in outsourcing labor and then asking things like "what did your UX team decide?" there is no UX team moron. the 3 people you interact with daily are the entire team. when they pitched this contract they lied to you.

"good enough for government work" is the funniest phrase in the world to me. i've seen the work high-priced consultants shit out.

i fucking love meetings man. the only time anyone actually asks anything in the "are there any questions" period is when they joined late and want the whole thing repeated or if they are attending this meeting solely to undermine the thing that was just presented as finished

Keep helping if you can chuffed.org/project/soad

Big year for long-lost footage www.screendaily.com/news/hammer-...

happy memorial day to the post of all time

"no ethical consumption under capitalism" is the same kind of verbal tick for assholes as "not gonna lie" or "to be honest" and fulfills the same need

i think its actually dumb and bad to deploy phrases like "no ethical consumption" when you're criticizing someone for not buying a *video game* like i know you feel judged by people who make moral choices about their treats but uh you could consider just shutting the fuck up

oh damn are you telling me that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, holy shit i've never heard that phrase before say it another 1,000,000 times so i can figure out what you mean by osmosis

Canada is literally handing over refugees rejected at border to ICE in the US. Haitian refugee Markens Appolon, for eg, sought refuge but Canada handed him to ICE agents. He is still in ICE detention. There is a seamless connection between Canada's new anti-migrant laws, like C12, and ICE terror.

every day we get a clip that would be considered too heavy handed for an Alex Garland film

DAT’S STATE MEDIA BABEY

the things that SEEM good are, of course, more complex and impossible than we assume. thank god we have a complex network of people making more than we’ll see in our lifetimes between us and protected bike lanes

just watched one of those data center town board videos and one of these ghouls replies to a member of the public with “we’re out here to make the decisions for you. it’s not always gonna be the decision you like.” and this is SUCH a pervasive thing in the U.S. understanding of power, huh?

If this is what the Israeli authorities do to people the world is watching, imagine what they do to people with no voice and no visibility. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

PERHAPS NOT EVEN THAT

lol. lmao.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

As WTF crazy as this is, it fits a pattern of the second Trump white house: rounding up people with total disregard for whether those arrests will get dropped or thrown out. The agents don't seem to care so long as the threat of arrest keeps enough people from protesting.

Israel beat and tortured international activists, with parts of it captured on camera, knowing the world would see it. Can you imagine what they do to the thousands of Palestinian hostages when there are no cameras? Free the Palestinian hostages. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

for my latest piece on @theverge.com, i spoke to recent grads about the joys and limitations of booing tonedeaf tech CEOs obsessed with AI

oh ok they're trying to bank on nostalgia without actually creating nostalgia. every pop culture decision for the past 35 years suddenly makes perfect sense.

"everyone must just be dumber than me" is a compelling basis for your politics for a 14 year old to have but every NYT writer seems to have held onto it maybe a little too long

Barney Frank died at 86 so Juniper Blessing could die at 19

sorry so when he "came out as normal" or whatever the fuck last week that was from his death bed????

we all think “I simply want to relax and live a quiet life” but this is a liberal desire. selfish. we all know people like this and they’re the ones who think you make every conversation ~too political~ we need to create a world of energy and vigilance and hope, not one where you can stop thinking.

Hi! are you a 2026 graduate who has thoughts and feelings about this? I would love to talk to you for a story on the Verge hello @ janusrose.com