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i'd love to know what was going on at the biden department of justice for four years

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

The director of Godzilla Minus Zero made a conscious decision to ignore Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Gotta wonder how much of this backlash Vivek is taking from other conservatives is animated primarily by some other *mysterious* aspect about him that the right finds unpleasant.

This is actually much funnier than the video being entirely artificial like I first suspected.

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

this is also the genesis of the entire conservative media environment after nixon they were determined that what happened to him would never again happen to a republican president and they built a legal and media infrastructure to make sure it would not they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams

"Money is power" apparently needs the addendum for some people that money is *potential* power. Kind of like how an egg has around 75 calories but it can't stop me from spending significantly less than that to throw at the wall.

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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i remember when i first heard about american college fraternities as a teen and was like well i must be missing something culturally there must be more there that isnt just the evil stuff but then i learned no its pretty much just the evil stuff

Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.

We let them commit genocide with one party in office, let it continue at a more limited scale in the next and then started a disastrous war, in no small part, on their behalf. They need peacekeeping forces, not security guarantees

If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.

Samus & Kirby

This doesn't matter of course because Republicans are hypocrites and never act in good faith, but I wonder how many people remember when they called student debt forgiveness a bribe.

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

Just learned about the "whole word" method of teaching kids to read and I am so fucking upset right now.

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Rove is obviously not woke he's just not a complete moron who failed to learn the lessons from California -- there are few places in America where you can afford to permanently lose as little as 10% of the Latino vote and expect to remain electorally viable.

oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm...

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

so cool that even if you ignore everything about Palestine, Israel is also expanding an illegal occupation of Syria

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

lol. lmao.