It's interesting that in 2021 Bill and Melinda Gates got divorced because of his appearance in the Epstein files, but you'd barely know this was the reason why given how the media just glosses past it. Odds are, you didn't know that Melinda had started the divorce process in 2019, citing Epstein.

Im watching more movies on bluray and not being able to skip stuff has been so good for me

I think one of the aftereffects of Sad Puppies is that, much like with the Democratic party, the liberal opposition to those movements are expected to be radically more leftwing by fans than they actually are. Which is how you get Raytheon sponsoring the Hugos, authors using LLMs ”as a toy,” 1/

an author out here first embracing the SFWA rule then getting upset when it changed then stating that it was for "research" then stating that output was used in her novel then clarifying about how it was used then backpedaling by saying "it wasn't much" do i have that right?

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Kristi noem's Nazi prison tour was made possible because in the past 20 years absolutely no one in power even considered having the Hague execute gw bush for war crimes. He abu ghraibed without any consequences whatsoever so trump could create a Dachau within 6 months

Sorry if this is a bit personal but does this shit make anyone else feel completely fucking insane

I’ll say this for George W. Bush: he’s an unindicted war criminal who should spend the rest of his life in prison and if he and his co-conspirators had been made to face consequences, Trump never would have happened.

Nobody who used Microsoft spellcheck or a find replace search has meaningfully used LLM in their works, and the people conflating it with LLM usage are those who have actually used LLMs in structural ways.

The Zootopia abortion comic is still less convoluted and messy as an allegory than the actual zootopia films where the oppressed minority group were dangerous predators or the Elements movie where the immigrants randomly set stuff on fire.

Here’s an idea: we build a society where people aren’t rich and can’t buy private islands and have private planes

joining the great machine consciousness

The most embarassing thing about AI is probably how quickly academic admins have adopted it. If I had the energy to take a fuck off class I would make real art for all of this and see if they dinged me for not having six fingered “models.”

The chances that the people a lot of folks won’t make eye contact with at the offramp have a stronger moral compass than the people in power are even money or better

me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk* my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone

The Grinching of Pelham 1 2 3

everything you use is being taken over by the same group chat

Sheep set to go on a 10 minute monologue about the plight of the kulaks.

Was gonna go out for drinks but im thinking im just gonna make some porto raviolis and watch movies on my new regionfree!

New York Times HR manager poring over Epstein files to scout potential new hires

lol, lmao, lol, lmao

3:19am I believe in us. We will be okay. We will see communism in our lifetimes. I love you. 3:44am Burning all my paintings. My art is a waste I am sorry for wasting so much time I will never be good enough 4:31am if kirby swallowed a pirate he would be Scurby

Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

On one side: a thick stack of all the endless paperwork necessary for a disabled person to fill out over a year to get housing, food, meds, etc On the other side: a few pages of paperwork necessary for MAiD. As long as no one works to reduce the former to zero, the latter will *always* be eugenics

Looking at the House votes & it’s always fascinating to see the strategy in action of having a tent big enough to be comprised of members that constantly vote to destroy the tent

The police recognize ICE/CBP as fellow cops and treat them accordingly. Conflicts between them *only* arise when ICE/CBP doesn't reciprocate professional courtesy.

South Texans tried primarying Henry Cuellar but Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democratic establishment put their weight behind him against young progressive Jessica Cisneros. He won by 3 points We’re fighting two party establishments at once here

Is this anything?

It’s not out of nowhere this has been building since Chavez took power and so called tankies have been raising the alarm on this but no one would listen as per usual

I fucking loathe these smug ass art-hating self-congratulating ghouls & the system that allows them to fail upwards into unfathomable wealth on the backs of 1000s of overworked creative people whose livelihoods get passed around like trading cards every time these dillwads have a stonks circle-jerk.

no i don’t think i will

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

1. A blockade is an act of war 2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨 3. It’s always about oil.

If Joe Biden said this, cable news would be on its ninth 25th Amendment explainer of the day.

Your terms are acceptable

There is so much in this individual server drama that actually provides very, very interesting insight into how an AI exec thinks. A poll is run about the bot; community says don't want it. Exec says, no, I won't submit to mob rule, puts it in anyway www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Hickenlooper has notably not voted for certain shitty measures lately, fearing backlash in a primary next year, but it looks like he thinks he can thread the needle here. Of note, Colorado is a solid blue state. He's not triangulating for the general. He just believes in this.

the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them

one thing i love about The Big Lebowski is that it's about a bunch of cool guys who function as mouthpieces for the Coen brothers' real opinions and morals

I actually agree with this but I don't think telling Richard Hanania how smart he is or promoting Walton funded push-polls really counts as combatting the right

The rapidity with which Gaiman fans ditched him versus the lingering adoration of Hairy Bollocks and the Urethral Stone says a lot about who society deems is and isn't a proper victim. And I hate that. Authors being shit to people is bad, always.

Absolutely not. Ideas aren't worth shit. It's the work that matters. rs-benedict.com/2025/07/27/a...

The Wright Brothers are not famous for coming up with the *idea* of the airplane. The Wright Brothers are famous because, unlike the many millions of forgotten nobodies dreaming over the past half-million years, they were the first people to actually build the fucking thing.

I think the bigger problem is that we don’t use the existing good ideas we have flying around, like investing money into renewables, expropriating the wealth of billionaires, and structuring work in such a way that is humane, not that we’re running out of ideas.

If Sam Altman isn’t rotting in prison by the end of the decade you know what. You know what I’ll do? I’ll start believing they actually were sexist to Elizabeth Holmes. I’ll organize my life around it

The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.