My mother and I have a long-running and fundamentally unresolveable argument over whether you can stack prefixes and suffixes onto words in Scrabble. (It started eight years ago when I tried to play "reroberize".)

"Bjornson, where's that swamp whiskey I asked you to put in the stockpile?" "*urrrrp* dunno, sir."

The vagueness and failures of these policies make more sense if you consider that the writer is a kid only halfway through college who still assumes that every directive or instruction he's ever encountered is just a negotiable position statement.

He's never encountered a deadline he couldn't push, a requirement he couldn't talk his way out of, a goal he couldn't convince a teacher than his half-assed mess wasn't meeting.

Rest In Power

#seinfeldtoday Kramer invents "crowdsourced theaters". Jerry: "So you just go to some stranger's apartment and sit on their couch to watch a movie?" Kramer: "Ya don't GET IT, Jerry!"

#seinfeldtoday Elaine's boyfriend's online-celebrity talking bird starts to mimic her voice. Audiences hate it and stop watching.

It’s not that Bluesky has the highest volume of bad posters, that simply is not true, it is that the posters who are bad on this site are so abysmal they tank the entire curve by themselves

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

NASA: Media Invited to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy www.nasa.gov/news-release...

there was a pleaterha of right leaning authors over the last hundred years that are good, i think ther problem has become that nobody has a Batshit Ideology That Contradicts Itself anymore. the greatest tomes of fantasy and science fiction were created by worldviews that dont exist anymore

the guy that wrote Dont Create The Torment Nexus? he got addicted to speed while in the Navy in WWII and the Torment Nexus is a metaphor for capitalism's destruction of nature and also the scourge of interracial marriage.

My hot Third Spaces take is that these places exist, people just want to do Phone.

goddamit we're getting GenX government but it's the GenX guys who would come home from work and spend the next five hours in GTA3, running over pedestrians with the ice-cream truck

Also also: they're not saying that straight sex is gay-as-in-homosexual, they're saying that because even the most exploitative, misogynistic MF sex still involves a woman's consent and possibly pleasure it's outside of what can be considered masculine and is therefore gay-as-in-effeminate.

me chasing my parakeet around the house like:

[0003507] Pet Cat Eats Pet Roach, Mayhem Does Not Ensue.

Mornin’, folks! Hope all y’all got your lgbtq+ delivered overnight for Pride month!

Millennials and Zoomers are so used to being gatekept out of every opportunity and position that Kane Parsons directing the Backrooms now has a conspiracy theory stating that someone else directed it for him because he's only like, 20, and that's clearly impossible

The C+C Music Factory got shut down for OSHA violations so of course they trying to cozy up to the administration

My point in all this is that it's easy for me to see why some "legitimate" writers and certainly large publishers would think that AI is fine and dandy. And it still shocks me that this sort of thing is okay. Milli Vanilli was condemned for lip syncing one album.

Book writing still operates under guild economics, with the guy on top getting all the credit and the recruited authors paid enough to make it worth their while (more than they would make under their own name, anyway) So the pump is already primed for AI

At the function, havin' a good time

Logging on

It's funny to imagine a pre-Seinfeld world where this, by itself, would've been a goddamn nuclear weapon on the standup circuit.

I like the idea that Hutts are like any immigrant family and Jabba refuses to speak anything but Huttese at home and his kids are like jacked zoomers that are a full foot taller than him and only speak Huttese specifically when explaining how the Samsung remote works on the phone.

My sister just greeted me with: "Tits up, you spicy little burrito" so that's one way you could tell someone good morning today.

Tag yourself I’m figmailm

"Shake violently," maybe not, but I have been known to do a Kenshiro Manly Tears Of Emotion at the end of "October Sky" when Homer's dad shows up to the rocket launch.

the intrusive thoughts won

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

We watched "Project Hail Mary" again this evening, and we still liked it!

No one talks about why data centers take so much water LLMs run on shower thoughts, and the data centers must keep a stream of steamy water spraying gpus 24/7 Without the showers, LLMs just have regular thoughts like everyone else currently not in the shower, and would have no sellable value

yeah, we call that "surgery"

No, he's got a point

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there seems to be a lot of issues with DF's implementation of lungfish

For the unpatriotic, those are: Paddington, Winnie the Pooh, Rupert and Sooty. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.

Good morning

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap

alternate title for "Delicious In Dungeon"

I mean, of course Gen Z doesn't have any money, when I was 25 I didn't have any money either!

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LET ME IN

The thing about Milgram Experiment was not that most people wouldn't follow immoral orders but that some people *would*, that some people *would* give you fatal shocks for getting a math problem wrong just because a document said that's what they ought to do.

the good news is that there's a tool that's actually good at coming up with usable alt text. the bad news is that quite a lot of the site would crucify you for using it

A seagull presenting an annoying TV documentary about the British seaside in which it discusses lots of boringly obvious things about being a seagull and says "JOIN ME ON MY SEAGULL JOURNEY" a lot.