Toby "earth" Baratta

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

(for other BSG nerds here, I intentionally attribute it to *Commander* Adama - I've seen other places attribute it to Admiral Adama, but that is incorrect for when the statement was made.)

/end super nerd alert

"There's a reason why you separate military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica - Water (2004).

Too applicable.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

Watching the Nintendo direct late having had no spoilers all day just resulted in me being wildly disappointed by galaxy being a movie??

And also the movie announcements showing nothing about Rosalina killed me

But I want the Rosalina book omg

Photo of Uma Musume with Narita Taishin in a bad mood and with a condition 7 days pre-debut race.

Good morning to everyone except Narita Taishin

So, I mostly hide from social media and enjoy that freedom all the time, but figure at some point I should post a catch-up over the year. So, that'll be coming! But so far grad school is great - and also super hard! But I've gotten to read and engage with so much that I care about.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

I pray this is a joke or I feel ten thousand years old

I work with too many youngins who might actually not know this 😭

April 2025 Producer Showreel
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The new @xbox.com handheld makes me finally want to upgrade my Xbox One X that I bought back in 2018. It's lasted so long and I love playing on it, but it's finally getting a bit too old with all the X|S games it can't play.

Gotta start saving up now. Who needs food on a grad student budget?

At Fate's End also looks wonderful!

Persona 4 Revival literally made me so fucking happy. I tried to play golden a while ago but couldn't get into it because it was so old-looking.

Animo, Keeper, and Planet of Lana 2 also look great!

Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.

Literally all of the game reveals over the past weekend (and Friday?) have been really fucking great, ngl

Persona 4 Revival announcement just now had me shout so loudly my neighbors probably heard me, ngl

a democratic mayor was abducted by ICE and chuck schumer is posting with the gusto of a guy who didn’t know guac was extra at chipotle

Can't break heat records if they defend the national weather service I guess

(It is 94F right now, which the record stands at 95F for this day in history 😭)

Stude gives the best hugs in the world, cannot recommend more. Take them up on it at next smash event you are at

11/10

omg please eat when you do this, particularly after the blood draw!! Or work out first, omg. But drink so so much water before the blood draw - night before too.

be safe omg. I always feel like I'm going to pass out after serious blood draws and immediately now have sugary drink and food after

This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.

Trump's education secretary referred to artificial intelligence as "A1"—like the popular steak sauce-instead of "Al" during a panel on Al in education. Ed Sec Calls Artificial Intelligence 'A1' Like the Steak S...

Linda McMahon is really leaning into that “no more education” message.

once we oust this current trump administration we will have to force democratic politicians to treat everyone in his administration like the hague treated germany post WW2

The only endgame move will be to nationalize X, Starlink, and SpaceX.

a person in a blue coat walking through the snow Alt: a person in a blue coat walking through the snow

Me: imma just gonna take a quick hop over to the target next door to get a soda

Denver:

It is back-compat, it just is the normal game unless you pay for the upgrade pack (so I guess the higher def stuff & some additional content for Forgotten Land and the guided collectable thing for BoTW and TotK?

Delayed reaction question on the #nintendodirect but why in the world is Wario driving a car and not driving his motorbike

Split Fiction looks so much worse quality on the #Switch2 than on the PS5 and I just cringed so hard

I love your cat