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it took THREE of you bozos to handle this earth-shattering scoop?

this is gonna be a fuckin mess has there ever been a bigger pack of inept cowards than the BCNDP? christ

every single private torrent tracker i'm a member of is down for maintenance this morning because of this stupid PHP thing

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:

genuinely a very hard choice for a small studio to make. this will have a real material cost to the developers. props for having some conviction.

brutalism.space passed 100,000 visitors this week 🥲

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

town talk diner, lake street, minneapolis, minnesota, 1984

The designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in solidarity to form a union with CWA!

guys like this love to pretend to believe a thing that requires them to forget books exist. i don't need to hang out with losers to hear their arguments, man, we invented the printing press awhile back. i have read the literature of my enemies. i am familiar with their convictions.

hard to imagine a better way to summarize who ABC represents then the owners of a demoviction putting up signs on an empty construction lot lol

If you ruin the ~ bright futures ~ of Ivy League rapists, who will you rely on when you need a wet signature for state-sanctioned murder?

Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

this has often been my pitch to people as to why they should learn about historical materialism. it inures you to so many annoying takes.

happy fat bear week to all who observe

The original Chongqing Station was a real vibe, sad to see it go

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Incredible headline here (among other things)

visited one of my favourite places in the city over the weekend

Uhhh, we're gonna go with option 2 #MotorWeekRetro

as promised, a new set from my excursion this past long weekend Arntzen Hall at Western Washington University (1974) full album: brutalism.space/sets/2026/ar...

as promised, a new set from my excursion this past long weekend Arntzen Hall at Western Washington University (1974) full album: brutalism.space/sets/2026/ar...

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

went for a drive over the long weekend (without my film camera) and ended up shooting an impromptu digital set for the site. should have it up in the next couple days. here's a preview.

Happy Labor Day

you ever think about how nice it's gonna be when everyone who's old enough to want to see an Elvis impersonator is dead?

One of those things you were pretty sure was true but now you have causal quantiative evidence in the American Economic Review: business schools trained CEOs to pay workers less in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...