Gage M.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

One stat that I think helps put the fearmongering into perspective:

Coal plant waste is far more dangerous of a radioactive hazard than nuclear plant waste. Coal has small amounts of uranium and thorium that get concentrated in the byproducts.

In 2008, 1.1 BILLION gallons of that spilled.

It’s also why I’ve been cringing at people celebrating Square-Enix and Namco suing OpenAI.

Just wait til we get laws that ban VPNs that don’t block certain sites and/or keep a log of users’ browsing history.

Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites Italy will require users to verify their age before getting on porn sites, starting on November 12.

There are lots of bad age-verification strategies, but Italy's is ...🤌

Agcom produced a list of 48 adult sites that need to comply, compiled seemingly at random. Some are well-known, most are not. A handful of big sites, but most competitors (to their joy, I'm sure) are left off.

Mind-boggling.

And apart from that, the point of the rule was to stop retailers charging people paying by EBT more than other people, not less. So, yes, USDA are trying to intimidate retailers out of offering discounts to people affected by the illegal SNAP cutoff, but it's bullshit and they don't have to comply.

Although TBH I felt that using NFTs for art was a dumb idea from the get go.

I remember earlier this year when the EFF was getting criticized for saying that expanding Copyright Law to combat AI art theft wasn’t a good idea.

Because it’s the left-wing version of “owning the libs”.

Eh, I’d say more like cognitive dissonance.

Also ironically, many of the anti-AI folks are now pro-piracy with the enshitification of streaming.

We would have folks online now unironically supporting SOPA/PIPA now if it was framed as an anti-AI bill.

It’s why I’ve argued that a fatal error made by rich liberals and democrats was no longer subsidizing left-leaning internet media companies while the right doubled down on theirs.

Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."

Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.

The AI discourse broke the copyright/IP discourse.

It’s why I joke that SOPA/PIPA would be popular here if it was framed as an anti-AI bill.

So tired of people using the term "theft" in the context of copyright law.

Copyright infringement is not ethically or legally equivalent to theft in any way. Even if you are staunchly opposed to it, you should be able to see the difference.

An excerpt from the Japanese strategy guide for Sonic Wings 2 (1994) dedicated to Whity the Dolphin and his YF-23 Black Widow II stealth fighter.

I resent the growing backlash against ”lore” in nerd circles here. Fuck you, the best part of the 1990s was the batshit insane background story you got in mediocre video game instruction manuals and strategy guides. I demand to know why Whity the Dolphin flies a YF-23.

Y'know, I know this isn't the "point;" but when the godless libertarian polycule in 'ATLAS SHRUGGED' won by turning off the government ...they didn't do it while BEING "the government" and also steps 1 and 2 were "invent green energy" and "trains good" 🤦‍♂️

I think Zohran will likely have from a policy standpoint a relatively normal administration (I’d even lean towards mildly disappointing), but will be reviled or revered as though he was Che on the Hudson among commentators because everything’s so fucking crazy

460 people have been massacred inside a Maternity Hospital in Sudan. Where are the pro-Palestine activists? Silent. Where are the Hollywood celebrities? Silent. Where is Greta Thunberg? Silent.

Hate this shit. There are a lot of activists with selective focus, and

a) we can't really expect everyone to be perfectly well-informed and have the energy to talk about everything

b) some people obviously are just doing what's cool in their social groups

but Greta DOES talk about Sudan A LOT

An important part of media analysis is being able to form rational defenses of the media you enjoy against negative criticisms from others.

Falling back on rhetoric like “are we allowed to talk about how [thing I like] is good” is wholly inconducive to honest discussion.

“Making it easier to build housing is the same thing as Robert Moses tearing down housing to build highways”

the city council is going full dril lol

I think a lot of people are greatly overestimating the amount the pendulum swung back socially.

People got tired of petty wokescolds who would militantly police the smallest of transgressions. Most still find gutter racism repugnant.

median voter: I'm tired of people getting mad at me for not using the right language about stuff I barely understand

MAGA: aww yeah, no consequences ever again for doing videos of derisive SNAP recipient characters in blackface

At least we know for certain we live forever in a world where evil has vanquished good

Wish one of the smaller park operators could take over the smaller Six Flags parks that they’re either closing or rumored to be closing.

So Six Flags can focus on the bigger flagship parks.

YouTube video by mranderson00001 Star Wars Episode I: All I Need Is An Idea Webisode

George Lucas began writing the Star Wars prequel trilogy thirty-one years ago today -- a process that ultimately led to the second time he would revolutionize the way movies are made

Someone justifying sending death threats at trans women

Thinking trans women technologists deserve death threats for trying to stay competitive in careers where we already face discrimination is massively transphobic, and I refuse to pretend it isn’t

In my life the most successful elections Democrats have ever run were 2006, 2008, and 2018. In all three the main issue was effectively the same: "The incumbent president and his party are an unholy nightmare in countless ways, throw the bums out."

2026 should be about Trump. Nothing else.