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You have to meme it to death now for it to stop that was the only way we managed to get Periphery to stop using Misery in every fucking song

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.

The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵

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When Jenasie Earl, a professional thrifter and interior designer based in Salt Lake City, posted this couch she bought for $200 on Instagram, I thought: "how charming." This couch represents many of the things I believe in.

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United the Kingdom Rally. A bunch of protestors are holding the Union Flag (Union Jack) and the St. George's Cross, the flag of England

A bunch of people holding "Make America Great Again" signs.

We are currently living through a time when liberalism is backsliding. People are questioning things we once took for granted, such as international trade and multiculturalism. Ethnic absolutism is on the rise, as ethnic identity is treated as fixed, pure, and the natural basis for belonging.

What the actual fuck

Polacy wracają z emigracji. Najliczniej opuszczają jeden kraj Między 2017 a 2022 rokiem do Polski wróciło blisko 160 tys. emigrantów - wynika z danych Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (GUS). W omawianym czasie

I managed to find that between 2017 and 2022 over 100k polish people left the UK (source in polish) https://biznes.interia.pl/gospodarka/news-polacy-wracaja-z-emigracji-najliczniej-opuszczaja-jeden-kraj,nId,7221140

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

A screenshot of a character in Final Fantasy 14, wielding an axe. The image is overlayed with shader effects.

A screenshot of a character in Final Fantasy 14, wearing a namazu mask, standing next to khloe, looking funny.

A screenshot of a character in Final Fantasy 14, standing in front of a lake, holding a camera, and smiling.

Just uploaded the first proper version of my ReShade shaders, intended for FFXIV! Including both an Edge-detected outline shader, and a color-palette swapper. Link to the repo is below! Very exciting!!

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?

David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.

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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

there have been lots of cornball stories about LLMs convincing gullible people they're god or whatever. but this latest one, about a 16-year-old who chatgpt taught how to successfully hang himself, is... well, look at it for yourself www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

At least on the Przemyśl-Berlin line PKP also doesn’t offer proper seat selection. Just whether you want a compartment or not…

having thought about this for three days, my current status is:

what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

An oatmeal-colored single-breasted tweed sport coat with notch lapels, jetted pockets, and welted out-breast pocket

This is a beautiful garment.

Let me show you what makes it special. 🧵

The flowers there are literally worse than what you can get at Albert Heijn it’s easily the worst part of Amsterdam

No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment.

If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business.

Please continue making censorship unprofitable.

I usually use PayPal on steam cause it’s super convenient but I’ll switch to ideal/wero for my next purchase even though PayPal is still available. Hopefully they lose a ton of money from this shit 🙏

Valve explain why using PayPal for Steam purchases isn't currently an option in a whole bunch of countries Valve have explained why PayPal is currently unavailable as a Steam payment option in a number of countries around the world.

It's not just Stripe putting the squeeze on Itch, too. You can't use Paypal anymore to buy stuff from Steam in a lot of countries because the company considers the LARGEST GAMES STORE THAT EVER EXISTED to be too much of a financial liability.

I’m so excited for it since I wrote my Bachelor’s on Barbarian.

3-4 pm and then something smaller later

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game.

It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM

Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

What passes for journalism in this country has become an embarrassment. Credulous engagement with corporate and political messaging with no interrogation of what’s actually happening. This is a particularly egregious example but many journalists are doing similar.

I don't even need to go into anti-AI stuff this is insane, ghoulish, evil at an almost unbelievable level. Acosta should be run out of the internet on a rail. This is the kind of thing that should imply the judgement of everyone involved is tainted. You'd have to be insane to do this.

I... never would have expected GOG to do a big porn giveaway to protest censorship, but hey, it's high profile enough to bring the site to its knees so CLEARLY it's spreading awareness.