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The takeaway from the success of Iron Lung isn't to fund YouTubers making sci-fi movies about games.

The secret is that Markiplier is a creative person who made something that excited him.

This is also the secret sauce behind Sinners.

There is no repeatable trend. Fund creative people. The end

What is the going rate? I can shut up for a few million.

Much like after the Iraq war. If we don't put these lying fucks in jail it will happen again.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

To be fair, who among us hasn't made plans that snuck up on us unexpectedly, leaving hundreds of people entrusted to our care stranded overseas as bombs rain down on 10 countries, closing airports and sending energy prices soaring worldwide, and instantly destroying billions in market value?

Everyday so much bullshit.

Trump’s Iran attacks are “terrifying” bc “they seem untethered alike from policy goals and logic” as he “offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it.” @nberlat.bsky.social

AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.

Last year, in Fascism For First Time Founders, I warned the tech industry what happens when you cozy up to authoritarians. As I wrote then: Innovation requires trust. Not just between individuals, but institutional trust.…

YouTube video by Dead Kennedys - Topic When Ya Get Drafted

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this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

How are the fixes to outlaws?

I am sure glad the sound can't go through those thin drapes or up the roof.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

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My entire adult life

So we are at war with:
Iran
Venezuela
Any boat in the ocean
Cuba
American people

YouTube video by Fragile Porcelain Mice - Topic Powertrip

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Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

It is difficult to get across just how impossibly stupid this is.

With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok

Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, and…

I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Abolish ICE.
Break up the media companies.

I look forward to doing age verification on my 22 year old steam account.

I keep waiting for Trump to reinstate leaded gasoline.

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

We've been saying this for years now, and we're going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that…

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

Indeed. And do you know what kind of an as absolute bunch of bespittled, shit-flinging troglodytes you have to be to get the Canadian people mad at you? Do you know how badly you have to behave in public, day after self-degrading day to lose their friendship?