sitting here wondering how much of long covid is long covid, and how much is that up until covid they weren't actually checking whether the 'averages' for cognitive decline or adhd were what researchers previously expected to be normal because nobody had really kept up.

this year's resolution: to more actively disempower anyone who spends more than half a conversation 'actively listening', or answers direct questions with therapy speak. also anyone who gives their job title as 'life coach' but i was already doing that

it fascinates me how euro-descended people always need walking paths to make sense of archaeology like Hopewell or Poverty Point. a sad extension of the Alaskan landbridge and claiming Jamaica was unpopulated until columbus. they've had canals and waterways in europe for forever, this isn't hard.

come on npr, favoring mention of his hs prank videos instead of, say, 'who filmed himself at jan 6' or 'who claimed the russian invasion was a hoax'. one makes him immature, the other more accurately paints him as malicious. why keep doing these pricks unforced favors?

something about specifically the story of nada in the sandman series (and books) feels like the purest most distilled version of blackface that could be reasonably possible. short of the tech from 'get out' becoming reality of course.

magical and alchemical traditions seen as a cargo cult is probably the single best idea ric madoc ever had.

anybody remember lindsay shephard these days? or james damore? fulnecky and riley gaines are just the latest incarnation of a decades old grift. i hope that TA's friends are checking in on her regularly, cause i guarantee her inbox is one giant wall of death threats.

the real secret to Candy Crush Saga is it's actually dark withdrawal hallucinations from a food addict on a 20 day cleanse

i love it when construction costs of the data centers, production of the chips, mining of the materials, redirecting rivers, and maintenance of the physical wiring (not to mention all the marketing hype they're paying for) is stripped out of every article about how cheap LLMs are.

i sometimes catch myself boggling at the idea the current admin could be taken down by a sex scandal after all of the everything else they've done, then i remember hardly anyone cared jk rowling was racist for years until she decided to be loudly transphobic. everybody has their line i guess.

this is just shitty fanart for war thunder mobile of the hms daring. all they did was knock off the radar globe and add machine guns like it's doom guy the boat. jfc

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

where's epstein island again? oh wait... new day, same white guy trying to set up a utopia somewhere in the region of the gulf, istg. ya want some fun reading google the Darien Scheme or Fordlandia some time. but this mf definitely needs his harddrives checked.

growing up watching sewing with nancy meant i learned a skill but also i sorta unconsciously log when people only talk out of one side of their mouth. i can reliably report it's surprisingly common, in that 'i'd have two nickels' kinda way.

looksmaxxers with their psl, smv, mogging, maxilla measuring and clavicular spending $35k on face surgery and injecting his 17yo gf on stream mike isratel having 3m subs as a weightlifting coach on yt while talking about Black people being 'genetically athletic' every alpha-male podcaster ever...

yes, the reality of income inequality is a huge issue. but can't forget this is also the fallout from no child left behind, coupled with horribly mismanaged covid lockdowns, making it so much easier for tech douchebros to sell the idea of a digital skinner box being the same thing as university.

i'm with tyler bender on this one, looksmaxing is just reddit anna posting for boys.

old joke about a guy named Duell proposed closing the patent office because everything important had been invented. funny part being he supposedly said it in 1899. there's always a least imaginative guy in the room, they will always resent people who are more curious. and yes, it's resentment.

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

years ago watching a convo with david mamet and some guy was rambling on about how one day televisions would be holographic and he responded "you know we already invented plays, right?" anyway, the bros apparently want to reinvent haunting your livingroom but in 4k this time. what even is satire...

the rise in tiktok vids showing off the gains (and backne and stretch marks) from gear usage really should be discussed the same way a pbs special talks about scarification rituals. "the bro has undergone his transformation. he is congratulated by the others and welcomed into the man-hut."

the dipshit who said we get chip shortages because we run out of electrons is now on the talkshow circuit. istg, these fuckers are one step from claiming ChatGPT will regrow your hair and make your dick longer.

even this isn't really news, researchers like YouGov were writing about the death of "third places" back in 2019. hell Putnam's "bowling alone" came out in 2001. the celebration of the internet as a source of connection was always more marketing than anything to do with how humans actually connect.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Our modern subscription hellhole is aggressively anti-ownership and the kids know it

Just wondering aloud but, is part of the reason why gen Xers consistently act defensive and/or will try to recenter themselves as "equally scapegoated as the millennials," b/c y'all know you were complicit in defining & reinforcing the anti-millennial cultural narrative, right alongside boomers LOL

Definitely this Caitlin Seida poem: Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat

Back in March 1938, Edward R. Murrow made his debut as a reporter on the very first CBS News Roundup, which more or less established the format broadcast journalism still uses today. End of an era (in more ways than one)… www.youtube.com/watch?v=igrr...

sebastian bach from skid row had a favorite shirt styled after a RAID ad, it said "AIDS, Kills F*gs Dead". then he starred as riff raff in a broadway revival of rocky horror. never let a celebrity be a hero is a lesson everybody has to learn at some point. that and the 90s kinda sucked actually.

From the team that brought you Touching Fentanyl Can Get You High and Yes You Can Get AIDS From A Toilet Seat comes Painful Pot Vomiting Definitely Real

i'm starting to suspect it would be a big shock to most people just how much the 'fitness industry' is openly eugenicist. seems some of y'all would be genuinely shocked how often lunks throw around "good genetics" and "superior" to move product (just ignore the backne and ~45 year life spans).

Imagine having Medicine this bad, dude needs jail time not probation. @lammatic.hellthread.vet www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/c...

GroundNews is sure getting a lot of shilling from 'content creators' who also regularly excoriate AI users. which is interesting. fyi, GN just takes posts from sites like AllSides (who employs real people), AI summarizes them then reposts without attribution. caller's inside the house etc.

i don't get this. As. In. i don't get how anyone could look at that essay, the half dozen repetitions of condescending christofacist handwringing, the handmaids tale fetishizing, and not realize it was targeted. do people not get the last few generations intuitively get weaponizing social media?

we're all watching late stage capitalism together and there's a type of supremely annoying poster who points at anyone saying what they're seeing in real time and saying "doomer" at them

im sorry but posting isnt praxis. real praxis is cutting off teslas in traffic

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

i guarantee the TA for this class is already getting death threats. it's something most of the 'discussions' of higher ed in decline seem willing to touch on is: 1) most of your instructors are NOT tenured and can be fired for literally no reason 2) the threat of weaponized social media

I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.

Some of y'all never had a Faces of Death marathon and it shows

Feels like they're giving the game away with this part. What with the Bot having *also* been discussing self-harm for the convo to have happened at all. Either ChatGPT passes the Turing Test and they're admitting it's an unchecked abuser, or it's a program and they didn't code for their own TOS.

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

Better Off Ted

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities. Maybe it’s their culture Did I do it right?

well shit

it's never not funny to me how easily hwyte anarchists and self-described leftists say nonsense like the bearing landbridge theory as 'i heard it in class so it's probably true'. a whole personality of being against received wisdom fighting to the bitter. settler colonialism is a hell of a drug.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

not to be that guy but can we quit with this? believing in atlantis does not equate to using children as live-fire test subjects. we need to stop treating the nazis as a metric. belief in pseudoscience is not the gap between rfk and basic human dignity, him treating the world as prey is.

that said, it can also verify your psychic abilities which may cause you to (completely justifiably, of course) obsess about your therapist for a few years. so it's not all down sides.