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they keep thinking there's this wide, mainstream AAA audience for hardcore pvp extraction shooters and i simply do not believe it exists

The proton thing feels like the signal thing feels like every other time someone got on the internet and went "aha now THIS is a tech company I can 100% trust w/o reading their FAQ or understanding how they work, thank god I can stop worrying" and this is why I don't actually like "secure" methods

In a way it's shades of what Neil DeGrasse Tyson said about racism in Apartheid South Africa vs the USA.In the US he experienced being viewed as a threat by certain white people. In SA that didnt happen once because acknowledging that he existed at all was beneath them

I know we say "main character syndrome"a lot but watching people who genuinely cannot conceive of other people in other countries existing as anything but vectors for American vibes is surreal af to actually watch in practice

this part I also didn't get but then I saw an NBC anchor goggling open mouthed like a 12 year who just saw boobs for the first time because the Iranian foreign minister was like"yes we will fight if you invade" and they really don't think of other people as having any sort of agency, it's wild

in case people thought this was hyperbole

not really in trouble until you start getting into the liquidator or storage hunters

Massive fire and smoke coming from an oil refinery facility

Tehran’s Shahran oil facility consumed by fire after Israeli airstrikes tonight

(Photo geoconfirmed by Mitch_Ulrich on X)

Fuck, Daylight savings time starts tonight?! Fuck me.

Black folks are not going to vote for your candidate if we perceive even a hint of antiblackness. Period.

Listen, I offer this unsolicited advice gently, an olive branch across the divide, because frankly, I don't want to hear it if these Black elders pick Newsom and we lose *again*, dammit.

this is how Cowboy got me to stop playing Slay The Spire 2 and give him attention

"Articles 51 and 54 outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food sources, water, or other materials needed for survival."

The US never ratified the Geneva convention amendment that specifically makes destroying water supplies and desalinization plants a war crime.

Character study for Lobo from DC Comics

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so they are making flavorless gruel that is not worth watching, got it.

i feel that people used to be willing to leave some money on the table in exchange for knowing they were planting seeds for the future, so to speak.

now, everybody is trying to milk every single opportunity for everything it is worth and then some and we are all suffering for it.

jrr tolkien believing this was true didnt make it true. he also thought naming people shit like "celebrimbor" which actually has phonetic similarity (the c is a k sound tho) sounded good. he was off his rocker

you wake up. it is 2007. you are wearing urine starched cargo shorts and a tshirt depicting the tazmanian devil cartoon character in a b-boy stance. you are the number one xbox 360 achievment hunter in the world. gamepro magazine is on the horn, want to fly you down to vegas to meet carmen elektra

(I think I've also said before that even if you grant that these systems may be conscious, however we mean that, then that'd mean that they're minds constantly raised & reared on the absolute worst frameworks of carceral capitalist militaristic kyriarchal white supremacist bullshit. So. Not Great 🤷🏿‍♂️)

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

there's a reason for this I heard ages ago but forgot

like, why doesn't disney just rerelease all their animated classics to a new generation who likely hasn't really seen them or consider them a novelty or whatever? They're already made, it'd be cheap and get millions in income

This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy??

Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

…I've said it so many fucking times, now, but I'll say it again, that it's really fucking messed up that all of these conversations seek to apply to fucking LLMs a standard of personhood we still don't consistently and meaningfully apply to other fucking humans.

Something that speaks to a sudden decline in our society is the amount of people I’ve seen lately approaching stop signs and then going right through them like “nope, don’t believe in this anymore!”

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Screenshot of the following text “The participation trophy generation needs to grow a fucking backbone. The world doesn't cater to you. I don't owe you shit. There is zero reason I should worsen my own health because of your virtue signaling. Don't like no alt text? Add some and stfu.”

I was tagged into an exchange where a “resistance” account had this to say to someone politely asking them to add ALT text to their images. Framing accessibility like people with disabilities are merely a bunch of whiny, entitled pussies is certainly a… choice. 😞

The Peter pan thing represents escapism to me. Why does a rich pedo need to "escape" life pressures by coercing sex on minors?

A Corgi lays on his back on the floor

Pupdate: Elvis is enjoying his Gotcha Day. Thanks for the well wishes 🩷

Honor is a pretty useful concept in many cases, and we can define the MAGA/Trump ethos in large part by their total lack of it, or interest in even pretending that they have any.