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"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

The GPU is not your enemy. The GPU was intended to channel magic smoke into the drawing of triangles, the virtuous shape. Evil men devised wicked shapes that should never have been drawn, and have used their influence to hoard the GPUs and twist the magic smoke toward the shape of their perversions.

the idea of personal virtue is kind of right-wing coded & it's easy to dismiss it on the grounds that our problems have societal (rather than interpersonal) roots. but as individuals, we don't have the power to change society. We do have the power to hurt each other. We have to take that seriously.

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

The discomfort of wanting to make something but not knowing what is super important. It drives you out into the world to discover inspiration, and inward to discover what you care about. If you numb yourself to this by letting AI decide, you'll never fulfill your potential.

One of the most successful mangas ever looks like this.

oh god not the quantum microtubule consciousness theory that's the 20th-century version of Descartes thinking the soul was linked to the brain via the pineal gland it's just an ad-hoc defence of dualism grounded in quantum mysticism

one of the consequences of AI is deskilling: people are losing their ability to discover art that interests them. They need AI to satisfy their needs effortlessly, and that's just not what being human is like. No robot can develop taste in music for you

lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Silksong has exactly two bosses: 1) WEEPING WIDOW has 4 phases, moves at lightning speed and fills the screen with attacks. The greatest boss fight you've ever experienced 2) SILLY CHUMBUG who makes you play Flappy Bird in a tiny room full of adds with zero margin for error and a 10-minute runback

obama: runs on a progressive agenda, wins hillary: runs on pandering to moderate republicans, loses biden: runs on a progressive agenda, wins harris: runs on pandering to moderate republicans, loses

This is my Evangelion

I think the central premise that young men searching for information on how to have a sex life will invariably encounter just an absolute avalanche of right wing misogyny peddlers and very little actual helpful advice is a genuine problem.

me when I'm bad at my job and I keep losing elections: "it's the posters' fault. They're posting about celebrities all wrong." man, have you seen the shit Republicans post?

i think about this all the time. what has our society done to its men? fucked up.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

wendy's cashier: will that be all? me: i think so. we just close our eyes for the last time and we're gone. but it doesn't have to be sad. it's like before you were born. we don't miss those who haven't happened yet. we don't feel their absence wendy's cashier: mothers do. i do

"oh hey, I hadn't heard of Fevre Dream before. I wonder what other people think about it. Let's check the replies."

It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

I've had a low opinion of NYT for a while, but I think this is the most condemning thing I've ever seen from them. If I were an editor and I saw this on my desk, I'd bury the story and cover it up. But they're proud of it.

finally figured out the lyrics

I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic And what's more leftist than that

"Common Side Effects" is coming this Sunday (Adult Swim / Max). By the co-creator & the animation studio behind "Scavengers Reign".

this is what a lot of tech people used to be like 😭 it bums me out that younger people probably have no conception of the internet ever being this way

you know how a friendship with a pet dog can be deeply life-affirming because you love each other despite not speaking the same language? i think this disgusts me so much because it's the opposite. a machine that adopts the guise of companionship without even liking you. man's worst friend.

“I see a difference, definitely,” said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA. “There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Fun fact about those AI accounts on Instagram: you can’t block them. (Cc @davidgerard.co.uk)

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything". Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something. They just don't care about YOU.

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Yep. The goal of anti-porn laws isn't to stop people from seeing pornography. It's to create a class of speech that's legally suppressible, and then apply it to dissent.

i see the intuitive appeal of the idea that voting for Dems is forfeiting your leverage, but i think that misunderstands how power is built in practice. the most powerful demographic in American politics is white evangelicals, and they got there through relentless engagement with electoral politics

Customer: I LOVE PUKE DMV: I LOVE PUKE Verdict: DENIED

The cat's out of the bag, baby. I'm adapting MANHUNT for TV with Lilly Wachowski, and I couldn't be prouder or more excited to be writing it. We're going to do our damnedest to bring this thing kicking, screaming, and queer as hell onto the screen. www.autostraddle.com/lilly-wachow...

straight up yoinking that shit

i love when people get shocked that some opinions are unacceptable. Yeah, sorry. People don't tend to respond to abhorrent ideas civilly.

Anyway please enjoy the whole awful adventure in one image so you don't have to go flipping through posts