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After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.

put 👏 sports 👏 betting 👏 back 👏 in 👏 the 👏 hands 👏 of 👏 the 👏 mob 👏

I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.

A competent opposition party would call a presser and explain that while their party believes that voters should choose politicians and not the other way around, the Republican Supreme Court majority had previously said that extreme gerrymandering was legal if it was about partisanship but...

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.

They want us to be appalled, because caring about rules of war and human lives and the law all mark us out as inferior to them in their sick worldview.

Cops should be protecting residents of the city not spraying protesters in the face with gas and helping the ICE pigs who are kidnapping people without warrant.

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

"The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this."

Our attention is the product

There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot

AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you

Hurk should be in every season.

Make like a tree and grow.

Knowing too much about my friends' love lives makes me feel despair and horror at my own prospects like I'm some goofball in a Lovecraft story having learned of cosmic horrors when all I really learned about is how freaky everyone is these days.

YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic The Harder They Come

RIP, Jimmy Cliff

so as sure as the sun will shine
i'm gonna get my share of what's mine
and then they harder they come,
the harder they fall
one and all

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQr...

When you have to spend billions and boil oceans because you're a witless loser who has never made anybody laugh at a party. Beyond tragic.

Paul Conrad on the far right painting enemies with a red brush, Ventura County Star, 8/24/1966.

A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria

An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria.

An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco.

An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Chicago pope sings

Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See

Greene pushed on camera to get Fuentes on CNN. they seem to be cementing their alliance. (another reason why the "we welcome greene to the Democratic party" takes were grotesque.)

Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker.

The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”

https://youtu.be/NE2pcit1CaY?si=pZu06D0lHIXnGfSF

I heard that it’s #FunkyFriday today

friday night plans

PWHL: Toronto Sceptres at Minnesota Frost - November 21, 2025 YouTube video by The PWHL

Let's go!

I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.

everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust

I’m no scientist, but a lot of the explanations and theories on Ultraman sound like nonsense.

Oh look, a Libs of Tiktok reply guy who turns out to be a ICE agent who threatened to shoot people.

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents.

Anyway, it's not a joke and his shock troops are at the ready.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social