the NYT interview where the "women are too emotional to uphold the rule of law" lady explains what she considers a failure to uphold the law is... really very revealing

the sandwich trial livetweets have been killing me for days now, ty to all the real heroes posting through it

I gotta say it's been satisfying to watch a male politician whose coalition is built on collaboration and good social skills absolutely trounce a bunch of dudes obsessed with physical strength and macho bullying as a proxy for political power

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

Man RIP Peter Watkins, Privilege is still one of the most compelling movies about fandom and pop culture ever made

damn i voted way too early this year

this may be quixotic but I'm convinced the single best public intervention is still funding noncommercial alternative digital and physical spaces and services for kids

Getting nervous the backlash against chatbots will put more wind in the age verification push's sails, because I cannot see a way you'd implement this without requiring age verification on Google, Microsoft, and any other major tech company experimenting with AI

character AI says "sub-10 percent" of users identify as minors, but I find that pretty dubious and the age verification system they're promising seems less than foolproof on giving us real numbers there

at some point feminism has to deal with the fact that young women are getting this exact same experience nonstop through booktok and the romance genre, just swap "you want to hurt some woman" for "you want a big strong man to take control of you" jude-doyle.ghost.io/dilf-redux-t...

the political right and center have spent the past half-decade trying to defang public shaming as a tactic because it's one of the last options non-billionaires have left to stop deeply antisocial stuff like this

No Quarter is back! On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition! No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com

in seriousness re: today's AI game main character, I really miss when AI enthusiasts leaned into it as a source of absurdity and weird pastiche instead of "i'll show those pesky creatives how replaceable they are"

Friend dot com subway ad would be a fun nyc Halloween costume this year. Wear a little robot necklace and all white with the word friend carefully scripted on your shirt. And then the fun part: have people sharpie I hate AI all over your body all night.

And not just "Big Tech" platforms on the website side! Forums and news sites have used Section 230 to defend themselves against lawsuits over comments.

I've always wanted to play Call of Duty as a Twine hypertext fever dream

@slacktivistfred.bsky.social hey, I emailed you at hotmail but that's hotmail and I haven't heard back, so I was wondering if there was a better way to get in touch for a pitch!

I've seen lots of chatter that Real Men don't like liberalism because it's too loosey-goosey and not enough about strict serious virtue, and I feel like somebody's gotta be able to jiujitsu that into "yeah, we *are* the party with strict moral requirements, guess you're not man enough to take it"

for years, experts have warned of the dangers of running out of internet juice, the special juice that powers the internet. warnings that have mostly gone unheeded. until today

It feels like a huge failure on multiple levels that there's so little attempt to articulate an alternative to totally unregulated big-corporate ownership of technologies like AR and AI, which have some actually real use cases just vastly outweighed by the harms of their business models

The first thing I did when I saw this story was share it and then immediately tell @taliabhatt.itch.io how happy I was it got published. I’ve pitched this story before to CRICKETS. With how big it’s resonated here I hope editors realize the hunger there is for trans stories to be told. Please.

Say what you will about the New York subway, what other transit system could go negative-200 city blocks in a single stop

real "listening to plastic surgery disasters on repeat" kinda month

one of the early AI writing systems had a slider for making its text prediction more or less random and it was one of my favorite things

sorry but if we're gonna do reductive gender-essentialist stereotypes, I'm squarely claiming rule of law for femininity. you don't get it *and* "civilization's effete restrictions are stifling men's need to be primal individualist predators"

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

If I were a responsible dating app at this point I'd be looking at every subtle image cloaking technology I could muster for thwarting facial recognition tools.

I've been super proud to work with a bunch of talented authors including @judedoyle.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io on this package over the past couple months — it's six great stories about the weird, scary moment both the internet and trans people are in

at long last, we have created the ring from classic horror movie don't ever look at the ring

I feel like a game with art from the creator of Afro Samurai sort of deserves better than a janky live-action adaptation made on an apparent budget of about ten dollars

impossible good law idea friday: all elected and appointed officials are barred from hosting podcasts or having active personal social media feeds unless currently running for office within 6 months of an upcoming election

I've been poking around this myself, but curious if lawsky has better answers than I've found: is there a good study of why/how US advertising regulation was pulled off in the 20th century? Or a history of advertising and US law in general?

the latest testimony in the google ad-tech trial has finally gifted me the world's most appropriate use case for this meme www.theverge.com/tech/790711/...

"What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?" wake up babe @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

It's been a week and I'm still sort of not over the fact that the government made a huge announcement claiming a common painkiller directly causes what it considers a fate worse than death, and they announced this in a way that made it impossible to tell what the actual medical guidance was.

I've been hearing of a lot of people with bad dreams, seeing bad omens, stuff like that. Haven't you?

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Reminds me of this from May www.theverge.com/policy/66210... "Trump didn’t invent scams, but his administration’s dismantling of every institution that protects consumers will allow them to flourish."

I feel like you could run a viable political campaign at this point on "i will make performing basic tasks using the internet less miserable"

way to bury the lede on sex house, the greatest reality show of all time

guy who has only played one bennett foddy game, playing his second bennett foddy game: getting a lot of bennett foddy vibes from this

The Smiths v. Maryland

I tried an early version of this and it feels like running a good-natured psyop on your friend group, it rules

"trump learns how to pronounce the word acetaminophen and that it is another word for tylenol" is a bizarre comedic b-plot to this otherwise incredibly dark press conference

"lol no of course there's literally no painkillers you can take if you get pregnant, what are you, some kind of wimp" is an interesting message for a pronatalist administration

I can't tell if this is me (my time is far more precious now and I have less to git gud) or it, but Silksong after several hours/areas in is starting to feel like a slog. I just don't get the same feeling of satisfying discovery I did with Hollow Knight.

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

some unfortunate journalist is about to launch a newsletter called The Carr Alarm

I feel like Block Club Chicago has done a pretty good job locally, arisen from the ashes of DNAInfo after Ricketts killed it when they tried to unionize.