My friends are beating me at Battletech. I am a little birthday boy and they are beating me. This is not fair.

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I legitimately had to stop watching, the pure unbridled rage of this guy made me too uncomfortable. This man may end up swearing his family line to generational vengeance against ICE.

Deleted an unkind thing I posted about a guy I blocked. His posting history is almost nothing but him wading into other people's threads to insult and denigrate them. I've never seen an account on so many block lists. Dave, I don't know what you're going through, but it's not healthy.

I think I can make an argument for Neil Breen being a better filmmaker than Francis Ford Coppola, using Megalopolis and Fateful Findings as texts.

If I may add - if LLMs had been treated like every other NLP advancement, there would be no problem. It wouldn't be pillaging energy and water, it wouldn't be customer-facing until it *fucking worked*, and we wouldn't be facing a new recession due to an investment bubble.

WOOOOOOO PUBLIC TRANSIT!!!! I AM GOING TO USE THIS!!!

Cosigned

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

It's so cold in Minnesota that ICE is breaking

Hard to believe this thread is still going. The most tenable position is that yes, cars should indeed be heavily regulated due to their inherent danger. At the same time, enforcement - especially via camera - disproportionately targets already vulnerable populations. Both are true.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

You could easily get elected to federal office on this platform.

How the Grinch lost a guy in ten days

Found out someone put me on a "techno-pessimist" list that equates being against crypto to being against digital watches. Honestly the people on the list seem pretty cool.

Man, the fake lefty chud bots are out in force. Block early, block often!

my best friend and i used to watch MST3K super regularly and over 30 years later, we still constantly quote it in regular conversation, to the bewilderment and annoyance of our friends. there’ll be some middle aged guy saying 6-7 to his buddies in 2058

i still want a Pokemon game set in appalachia with a water racoon, fire skunk, and grass possum as the starters.

It's important to realize that this comment is made in response to camera enforcement, specifically the type targeting lower income areas and set to label things drivers do every day as infractions. Stopped in front of the crosswalk but not the white line? Ticket. 3mph over? Ticket.

I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.

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Imagine admiring such a little bitch

Also, it sounds like people have figured out which hotel the ICE agents are staying at and are giving them a lovely overnight musical performance with drums and vuvuzelas and so on. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather). www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

the TSA went from security theater to Schutzstaffel spies in one easy step

Hey folks, did you know that the first animated Animal Farm (1954) was a CIA psyop? As in the CIA's Department of Psychological Warfare acquired the rights to the film and funded its production. Just a fun fact that probably doesn't mean anything.

My debut, a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide (COLOR TASTE TEXTURE) sold twice this in preorders, with the tiniest sliver of her marketing budget. Also: It’s a great holiday gift! 🎁

Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable

I just bought this bc it sounds like a much better read than Nuzzi's book www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

"Halt traveler! One path before you leads to freedom, and one to doom! We will answer you one question asked of us!" "But beware! For one of us always speaks truth, while the other..." "Is definitely NOT going to sleep with Todd again! Learned my lesson, deleted his number, making good choices."

I have spent years in this industry following strong ethical principals that boiled down to "don't steal stuff and don't hurt anyone" and it has never been hard to do that.

The ol' Geoff Keighley alley-oop. Thank you all for donating to The Somali Museum of Minnesota during our reaction stream for The Game Awards! www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe

I'm watching #StarTrek #Voyager, s04e14 'Message in a Bottle', so I thought I'd repost this meme...

Stealworkers

Congratulations you fucking morons

See?! I KNEW that ham sandwich didn't do it!

trust and safety is like HR, they're not there *for you*, they're to protect the company *from you*

Non-literal interpretation of text is ableist against the neurodivergent. Anyway, here's three books of fantasy based on a mythology invented to help codify two separate constructed languages, in which a cursed ring is definitely just evil jewelery and NOTHING ELSE.

Honestly this explains a lot.

Hot take. The editors were right to edit "When Love Is Gone" out of A Muppet Christmas Carol. It drags, Caine hated his performance in it, it doesn't heighten our understanding of his regret.

Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man

We’ll probably never again see such a casual, celebratory, & memorable gathering of Jim Henson’s family of characters as is found in 1987’s A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS…

I just bought this! You should too!

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.