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ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

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Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

'the price of the [Xbox] Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost' -Game Pass planning major overhaul (a la carte) -next-gen handheld by 2027 holidays, console 2028 holidays fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...

Genesis Owusu being used in Apple commercials? I feel like everything I've gotten into has blown up a few months later lately.

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the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

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There's a Politico (lol) piece entirely about how Republicans' hope right now is that the polls are all way off and they only get a MILD wipeout and first of all it's full of a bunch of nonsense but the best part is how it ends on this incredible bit:

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AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

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>elf makes fun of me because human narrative art takes place over a hilariously short span of time, from the perspective of their long-lived race >i read an elfish book >its just a normal book but every chapter starts with '100 years later'

Manhattan on Saturdays during the fall is w weirdly college-football centric, at least after 1 pm. before that it's mostly Europeans watching soccer.

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NYC's World Cup Summer, by the numbers: • Total Economic Impact: $2 billion • Direct visitor spending: $1.2 billion • Operational spending: $162 million • Jobs supported: 12,100

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You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

IGN@ign.com

GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.

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sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

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porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

you can already watch yourself jerk off in VR in fact I'd say that's what most people use it for

Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social

"Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections", an upcoming VR/XR game by Pixelity Inc (2027)

glad to see the billionaire's son gets to put the name he thinks sounds cool or artsy on top of storied reputations but I guess anything's better than Warner Bros Discovery

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

The combined Warner Bros. and Paramount company will be named Skydance. Warner Bros. and Paramount will continue to operate as brands under the parent company.

remember Nilay Patel's law of history, once a generation someone will buy WB and think they can extract blood from the stone Discovery 2022 AT&T 2018 AOL 2001 Time 1990 Kinney 1969 Seven Arts 1967

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Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

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Sony argued that "reasonable consumers" already know they don't really own the digital goods they paid for. The Consumer Rights wiki has now made a list collecting more than 30 examples where Sony told customers they do, in fact, own the digital games they paid for. https://bit.ly/4gNi4Ls

it's so funny to me that GFL2's closest thing to a scrimblo is The Singularity posing as a robot attack dog. unless Mayling is the mascot character.

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I was rather unplugged for like two weeks around labor day and damn it does suck to come back to the world being shit again

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It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or something but it's pretty easy to reconstruct from the text.

Colin@colin-fraser.net

uhh www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

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This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.