Trump's tenuous grasp on reality is a real problem for ending the Iran War, because he doesn't seem to understand the inherent fruitlessness of endlessly bullshitting about a deal (in fairness, neither does the stock market)

The thing is that I have no idea what's the outcome, or what will happen, with a situation this complex, but neither have the people who make confident predictions.

It should be illegal to advertise using synthetic voices or human likenesses, unless it is made abundantly clear that they are fake

I think that the mass coming of age of trans people who had the use of puberty blockers, & thus only went through the puberty they wanted, will drastically shift the politics of trans rights for the better, especially WRT sports.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 7,1950

The actual explanation thread, not the “well it was a junior marketer using AI” excuse everyone is posting

My hot take is that only Tumblr has figured out how to build a social network with an enduring culture and none of the other social medias are trying to copy it, and that's a mistake that will cost them.

Peanuts by Schulz: Thursday, August 13, 1964

I have to wonder how many awakenings Val caused back in the 40s.

I once heard that a prominent rpg developer had been blacklisted from the video games industry after he and a buddy at a large video game company ran up $20k on the company credit card at a Nevada brothel.

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

Captain America, explaining why it's a good use of the Avengers' time & resources to pursue Batroc the Leaper to his home country

When I was a kid I thought the final gag of Raiders of the Lost Ark was that the USA already had hundreds of Arks and this was just one more.

Me when Bluesky adds group chats

What I like about this is, let us imagine it were correct for a moment. (It's not but never mind) Sorry, it is in fact good Bergen-Belsen was liberated and good that *all of continental Europe* did not end up being absorbed into the Soviet empire!

Eye-opening conversation with owner of a small construction business yesterday, brought home the invisible strains in the economy: Customers are spooked, don't want to make big investments. Trucking is unbelievably expensive now, that hits "everything" He's just trying not to fire anyone.

i am legitimately baffled by how good these are

Peanuts by Schulz: Tuesday, August 19, 1952

do u see the vision

Despite all my cool tricks I am still just a mouse in the Matrix

Actual adaptations of the 2 Dirk Gently books

one major asymmetry is the way in which defection from the party consensus at the left edge of the party is considered betrayal because it's principed, but defection from the consensus at the right edge of the party is trustworthy because it is presumed to be a dishonest appeal to moderates.

They missed a real trick in not titling it "Alien IIsolation"

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

There's something so stupid & craven about anti-sanctions rhetoric. "It won't break their will to fight", okay, but it will make them, & other countries, think twice before embarking on more wars of conquest

Don’t look him the eye! #TOTP

Sparks just blowing the rest of the music industry out of the water. This is just so far ahead of anything else that it’s embarrassing for everyone else #TOTP

Platner is a PoS, whom I'd love to see shown the door, & the parallels to the Access Hollywood Tape have not been lost on me, believe me, but I am irked by people acting like the 2 situations are perfectly parallel. Clinton hadn't tried to steal an election! Cons lied to themselves about the stakes!

Ah hell, ok RIP Giles godsdamn

lol the best Collins could come up with was a mid-40s tie? WOOF

Odysseus and the shepherd.

anthropic is so good and oh so ethical … just ignore how it keeps working with the military and intelligence services

Part of the fun of composing this bot is finding these magnificent artworks that would otherwise go completely forgotten and uncommented on. (Source.)

what do you call mass detainment camps that kill the people who stay in them

boy seems like a guy who probably should not be in the Senate

Per Middle East chief Baker "In a month, the only thing anyone's going to be distilling is whippet shit."

I think it's bad that the House Democratic Leader can't just unequivocally condemn a racist smear from a racist newspaper against an army combat medic veteran who just won a primary to join his caucus next year.

the racist attacks on Hamawy, and Jeffries' failure to respond to them, are disgusting.

#birdbot

Something that most debates about consciousness seem to elide is that, whatever it is, it both receives output from the brain & sends input to it. This would at the very least, seem to exclude GOFAI from consciousness

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Words mean things, and "little provincial kerfluffle" is simply never going to be an accurate description of the mayoral race of a city of nearly 8.5 million people

startrekboard : 9s

Who called it Philip K Dick’s Valis Trilogy and not Romestuck

"It's an Albany expression"

This shit is what I mean btw, when Republicans made the same argument when Biden took the lead in swing states in 2020 or Slotkin/Baldwin won in 2024 after trailing, they were laughed out of the room. STOP TAKING THIS MAN SERIOUSLY AS A POLITICAL ANALYST! bsky.app/profile/uncr...

Apologies in advance