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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

I’ll buy a new phone when I can get one that isn’t infested with GenAI nonsense.

i'm tapping the sign because a lot of people just seem to forget that "nsfw" doesn't just mean porn. it means "not safe for work." would i get sent to HR for having this on my computer monitor? yes? then it's not safe for work. for the love of everything that is holy, stop erasing the meaning.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle)

like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

I've grown more conservative as I've grown older but the things I want to conserve are democracy and decency

hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out

Uh, that's wild 👀

it's insane how good it feels to see someone with actual political clout give a single honest response to something

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

"the writer's barely-disguised fetish" WRONG, all my fetishes are out in the open and actively make what i write even better

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

There was a massive concerted propaganda campaign from the people who control the platforms with the largest audiences in the country to rewrite history and attribute to Trump everything people missed about the pre-Covid world and economy

Kinda grim that this was the government going “well ok fine, if swastikas are UNPOPULAR I guess we won’t do it”

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

It's because fascism is and always has been a death cult. It's about "creating a future" while making no actual plans because the point is to die in their forever conflict to "build" said future.

Incredible how many of these people’s positions ultimately boil down to “I don’t want to see or hear the poors”

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Fucking hell that is succinct and completely on the button. This needs to be on posters in the street.

Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool

"Any illusion from Disney’s ongoing lawsuit with Midjourney that it was skeptical of AI has been washed away; what it’s skeptical of is not controlling the AI itself."

The illustration is funny. Fortnite/Ready Player One is how they imagine the future of franchises.

It's amazing how they never seem to realize that one of the MAIN core tenants of fascism is bio-essentialism. Girlies, the call is coming from inside the authoritarian house.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

It's because they do understand the process of making art & how different it is from most other forms of labor. It's not something that can be automated (nor should it) because automation requires no thought, just repetition. The act of creation inherently demands reflection & introspection.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...

An attack on VPNs is nightmarish, ghoulish, completely unacceptable

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This is very true. As an artist, you don't get to dictate how people engage with your art. That is arrogant and egotistical.

Climate change: “first time?”

“you’re too old for fandom” is ridiculous. i only want to read fanfiction written by people old enough to know what the citrus scale is.

bad writing can lowkey be beautiful. not because the language is beautiful but because bad writing can reveal things about the writer that "good writing" would know to conceal or distract from. sometimes when reading bad writing I feel a terrible, thrilling closeness to the author.