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Is that from being unable to afford to feed ourselves or?

Hey @magic.wizards.com 👋 you got another apology or clarification for those hundreds of artists who've publicly said they won't fuck with you anymore if you use gen "AI" in your games?

Not normally one to AI-vestigate an artist's work but I think it's fair when said "artist" is the creative (lol) lead on a game whose USP is that it uses the Unreal Plagiarism Engine to generate assets for it.

Replacing all of your social connections with fake beings whose needs you never have to meet (or even consider!) is one of the most demonic things I’ve ever seen.

Transcending humanity by hooking yourself up to a validation slot machine that always throws triple sevens.

“These people are just very sad!” your conscience will say.

Then I’d recommend they not engage with or cheerlead the alienation machine. I don’t care how thirsty a person is, I don’t want to watch them drink salt water.

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

Acting like Mamdani is going to put Zionists in camps when there are literal Nazis littering the GOP right now is insane

WTF? @washingtonpost.com just published a profile about Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network with JD Vance—that omitted Buskirk’s ties to American Reformer, self-professed Christian Nationalist William Wolfe, & Wolfe’s Center for Baptist Leadership. 1/

mayor said you have to transition

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This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

I can hear the chants now

"what do we want!"

"Free community college for public high school graduates with at least a B average!"

"When do we want it!"

"On a moderate timescale that won't impact the national debt ceiling!"

😌😌😌

Part of our national problem is that many refuse to accept the stakes of politics, and the in-their-face-but-somehow-denied reality that “let’s not starve children, especially when there’s money for a ballroom and a foreign bailout” is not appealing to shared values, but to a partisan position.

There are signs that Morgan is becoming a cause célèbre for neo-Nazis in the United States. The white supremacist Paul Miller, who gained notoriety for making hate-filled videos while wearing Nazi garb, said on social media that he was working to secure Morgan’s release and directed followers to a crowdfunding campaign that he said was from Morgan directly. “I am in contact with @GasChambers_,” Miller tweeted on Sunday, referring to an X account that says it has raised money for Morgan. “We are going to pay the bail for Kenneth in the next few days he will be free. Gaschamber was very kind and gracious. We just spoke on the phone. We are going to get kenneth out very soon.”

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

ah, this guy was taken alive, unharmed, and there hasn't been an all-hands-on-deck freakout about What It Means. Guess the demographic!

the thing about "still gotta win elections" is that sounds all realpolitik until you realize that avoidance lets the other guys define you in your absence and "moderating" communicates that their narrative about you is correct.

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

"Introducing Doublespeed, an [Andreessen Horowitz backed] startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients.

Doublespeed clients can expect to pay anywhere between $1,500 and $7,500 a month for access to its phone farm."

Holy shit, they- they got /even cuter/

Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

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Trump has believed, since his first term, that the U.S. treasury is his personal piggy bank (as he did with his personal charity). The entire purpose of his presidency is to funnel as much of it as he can to himself and his family

Military watch screens of US cities. One says "Is anyone else getting curious about what our enemies might be up to?"

New Yorker. By Paul Noth.

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

ICYMI, Dominion Voting has been acquired by Scott Leinendecker, a former GOP election official from Missouri. Leindendecker is also the CEO of electronic poll book supplier Knowink whose product manager, Mitch Millville, was Ed Martin’s campaign IT director in Missouri in 2011. This Ed Martin. 1/

JD Vance said today on the TPUSA podcast that these guys were “just a bunch of kids in a chat room.” bsky.app/profile/blue...

Buhmole

So fucking pissed that OpenAI has completely ruined videos of animals. There was something especially fucking magical about lo-fi randomly caught glimpses of the entire spectrum of behavior of life that happens on our planet and from this point on you’ll never be able to trust it actually happened.