historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Capitulation at Versailles (disambiguation)

No matter what you try and teach a Hollywood executive, it will always come away with the most facile and least useful interpretation mortally possible. It’s embarrassing. There are literal children who could have a more nuanced take than “film give money when Internet give spooky.”

This Anthropic/White House spat is funny. Anthropic spent months declaring that its model is so powerful at finding bugs it threatens the world's digital infrastructure. The WH says OK it's banned then Now Anthropic and its allies have to say actually you know it isn't "uniquely good" at that stuff

It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.

Ring the "Wrong lessons were learned" bell!

Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire https://theonion.com/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire/

even if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

using AI at any stage of game development is loser shit but the excuse of "oh we only used it during the concept art stage" is always insane to me. concept art is literally the fun part. you asked the robot to do the fun part for you. do you also need the robot to eat dessert for you

4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.

While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters. The Administration thinks intimidation will make us back down. They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don't scare easily. We organize for our rights ✊🏽

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

Study: Reading For Fun Down Among Schoolchildren https://theonion.com/study-reading-for-fun-down-among-schoolchildren/

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

BREAKING: Bank of Japan raises rates to 1% for first time since 1995

Insurance companies are in bed with the arsonists to fleece you for everything you're worth. Fantastic piece to understand the financial machine warming our world.

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

“.. his team wanted to test how far the emboldened president’s authority could be pushed, setting off previously unreported internal struggles over where the limits should be.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

Wow. He really IS just like us 🥲

we lived in a better world when every new soda flavor release was accompanied by a website that had a cool flash game

No one wants you to know what the other side of the MGM logo looks like

saw a lady carrying a pizza box sideways under her arm and have never felt so offended

Poll: Fewer Americans Say Democracy Central To U.S. Identity https://theonion.com/poll-fewer-americans-say-democracy-central-to-u-s-identity/

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

this is a good thread, and a reminder that A.I. detectors are also A.I. and can hallucinate just as badly

Clear across the other side if the planet atm, absolutely zero clue what's going on back home, but my timeline is FILLED with sports reactions from people who I didn't even know followed sports, and I don't even know what sport it actually is they're talking about - but goddamn it's hilarious.

Backup Plan In Case Menu Item Out Of Stock Most Well-Thought-Out Part Of Man’s Life https://theonion.com/backup-plan-in-case-menu-item-out-of-stock-most-well-th-1819578950/

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

I will buy a subscription to the first mainstream Irish publication that simply states the truth in the headline of a news report that "racist pogroms" took place in Belfast last night and doesn't weasel word it by calling it a "protest" and continues do so

So, Doctor Who Thoughts anyone? Lots of depression and anger, naturally, but I will say something that you won't find anyone else saying for at least the next several years: RTD2 was good and I immensely enjoyed myself during it. As someone who thought the Chibnall era was not their cup of tea-