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I continue to believe that the executive branch loudly proclaiming a mission is to "liberate" American cities from their elected governments is bad.

“oh, you don’t care about crime?” no, no i do not, most major cities are experiencing historic drops in violent crime, no one raising this issue is doing so in good faith and they don’t deserve to be treated with any

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

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And recommend your faves or your own.

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SAVE AMERICA in a fascist ass font from an ICE ad

i think if they’re just straight up using the nazi fonts and stuff we can skip the rest of the big umberto eco list

Albert Spica, the monstrous gangster in THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER portrayed by the great Michael Gambon at one point is in the restaurant and says "Gold! Everything should be sprayed gold!"

This has been on my mind of late.

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Exactly this! "I cannot afford RPGs now" is not the same thing as "RPGs are too expensive now."

Said as someone who a) cannot afford RPGs now, and b) sells RPGs.

Every day for six and a half years we’ve been fucking losing and I’m sick of fucking losing. Aren’t you all sick of losing. Don’t you guys want to win

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

It's been obvious for a while that they were headed in this direction, & this attempt almost certainly won't go unchallenged, but you need to understand that this is & has been America's Lysenkoism moment knocking on the door, & it has to be resisted every way it can.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Tough to get in there with no door though

the GOAT

(2012 issue, rather) #IAmOld

quotes and example courtesy David Auerbach, in "The Stupidity of Computers" in N+1's 2021 "Machine Politics" issue (to be fair, Auerbach says it only scored a Turing victory "by cheating" but I say it counts)

mgonz: when was the last time you had sex someone at drake: yesterday. mgonz: ok honestly when was the last time you got laid someone at drake: i told you it was yesterday. mgonz: you are obviously an asshole mgonz: ok honestly when was the last time you got laid someone at drake: ok ok it was over 24 hours ago. for you it must have been 20 years

here's a transcript of it "not only [convincing] another user (at Drake University, reached in an early online chat room) that it was human, but browbeat this confession out of him"

my favorite instance of something that passed the Turing Test was Mark Humphry's 1989 chatbot MGonz, which had no understanding of what users were saying and relied only on "profanity, relentless aggression, prurient queries about the user, and implying he was a liar when he made responses to these"

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after trying everything else to get people to go to theaters, they're going for their last resort: actually improving the user experience

galaxy brain meme with each ascending state of being labeled Videodrome perfectly captures the 1980s Videodrome perfectly captures the 1990s Videodrome perfectly captures the 2000s Videodrome perfectly captures the 2010s Videodrome perfectly captures the 2020s

long live the new flesh
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ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe, and now you’re really in the total animal soup of time —

I thought the category was "things I scream into a pillow after checking the news in bed"

Put the Lich King on the ballot, cowards

just a little over 10 days left to submit! we have received a really wonderful array of submissions, it has been so much fun to see them roll in!

i've been working on the covers tonight, which reminded me to remind bluesky about this open call :-)

submit by 8/15: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing

This woman rules

It's ironic how MasterCard was so worried about "protecting their brand", but they did far more damage to their brand by caving to the demands of a few prudes and censored games.

They would have been better off if they did nothing.

Keep calling!

100,000 people rotting in ICE gulags as we speak but it's weird if you get too upset about it

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sounds great, keep it up

I have listened to that one as much as all the other ones put together.