staggering the release date awkwardly for their biggest show kinda feels like an admission that there may be something to this "weekly episodes" idea

Nationalize Adobe

raising $5 million from Silicon Valley for my "telehealth dentistry" idea

My advice for tech comms in general is: "you go to war with the userbase you have, not the userbase you want." That doesn't mean you can't grow or shift the userbase. But you have to start with what you have.

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Understanding the mechanics of propaganda has been extremely useful in seeing how effective the right can be and how the Dems miss opportunity after opportunity. The supposedly smart democratic consultants don’t even know how Fox News works, that’s why they keep stupidly telling Dems to go there.

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many Dems who are convinced protecting trans people is what lost Dems elections hang out on the algorithmically driven brainwashing machine run by one of the country's most prominent anti-trans activists 12 hours a day bsky.app/profile/gell...

raising $5 million from Silicon Valley for my "telehealth dentistry" idea

Just a reminder that Clair Obscur was caught doing almost exactly the same thing FIRST (launching with some AI 'placeholder' textures that got patched) and yet somehow caught like a tenth of the flak. Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

okay, fuck it, I'm watching the baseball

some excellent and intriguing suggestions in the replies here

Aw man, they scanned it on an Arriscan XT instead of a Lasergraphics Director. That's a little disappointing.

He's literally *tearing down the building* in a perfect visual metaphor for their base, an image the party could run on for decades, and they're like "No. Trump take egg." Have they all had some kind of post-hypnotic suggestion planted in their brains? It's on the damn TV!

I think it's good actually that it's so easy to score points on this website by dunking on Bill Maher. I suggest that perhaps this means the site is quite healthy, as social media websites go

For those saying, SNAP people should just go to a food bank, Trump has already gutted those programs. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

someone explain this to me

Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time: It rules

fake country

It used to be called “playing dumb.” Now it is treated as a legitimate debate tactic. We have to pretend that the person might actually have runny egg yolk instead of a human brain.

A Beautiful Mind

I was off Bluesky for a couple days, but I'm hearing the former Marine who worked for Blackwater launched a scrappy campaign with an extremely slick video turns out to be secretly problematic? This is astonishing

Nationalize Adobe

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

One might say I enjoy the screen presence of Adam Arkin

We’re making visual metaphors in AMERICA again🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

James Gunn is like an inverted Cassandra where he’s cursed to accidentally make superhero media so hyperrelevant people think he wrote it on a South Park timeline

A good thread on this kind of stuff, which creators should be aware of. I will also note that a publisher-producer (especially with no creator producer) incentivises them to strike a deal for less option money (which is shared) and more producer fees (which aren't).

less worried about this after seeing Season Two, Episode Eight of Peacemaker

I've said this before, but it's very bizarre watching West Wing episodes where a poor choice of words threatens to bring down the White House (about 60% of them, at least?)

stumbled across an example of a classic "web 1.0" site

Also “new”? ?You’ve never read a grocery store romance novel? Shits mad horny bro, treat your throbbing manhood to the sensual pleasures of reading.

If we were mutuals at the other place and I haven’t followed you back here, just let me know. For better or worse, once you’re in the club you’re in the club

"Why are the Republicans so unhappy even though they're doing what they want?" The answer is, genuinely, that fascism is inherently linked with loserdom. Its celebrities and myrmidons desire to make it so no one reminds them what they are. A single voice shouting "loser!" is intolerable to them.

stumbled across an example of a classic "web 1.0" site

One might say I enjoy the screen presence of Adam Arkin

the subheading just raises further questions

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

I've said this before, but it's very bizarre watching West Wing episodes where a poor choice of words threatens to bring down the White House (about 60% of them, at least?)

read theory (my posts talking with you about the ethnogenesis of the easterlings in the silmarillion)

My advice for tech comms in general is: "you go to war with the userbase you have, not the userbase you want." That doesn't mean you can't grow or shift the userbase. But you have to start with what you have.

Bad person seeing a good person: what the fuck, why is she faking? Is it just to piss me off?

Okay, watching the Peacemaker episode "Full Nelson." I'm suspecting that Sasha and Fleury will be key, because they haven't had much to do this season. I would guess that Fleury may be a part of the show going forward? Eagly may be in trouble, or he may save the day.

genius strategy: show the fun side of protests

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

"A rabbi associated with the congregation gave Mr. Mamdani a challah."

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

absolutely incredible bit

damn, they were posting *anything* on 2009 BoingBoing

A lesson in examining critical consensus, from Ebert's excellent review of Triumph of the Will: