Agent Rush

thinking of this thread in particular but the first time the feeling really hit me was reading Stokely Speaks

i'm generally not a doomer but every time i read something written by a black radical from the 60s or 70s, or a transcript of a speech, and they clearly think that a turning point is right around the corner, it's like... man.

we need a few more of those years in which centuries pass

GenAI is the logical next stage in the modern university's ongoing trend to not teach or have anyone learn anything. The answer to the question of "what's next?" after you've already turned courses into massive (often online) classes taught by low-paid adjuncts with no support.

i think often about "okay what can i, a disabled, middle-aged nerd with poor health and a professional skillset that assumes the government respects its own rules, do that actually helps advance left-wing goals"

i genuinely thought it was AI, mostly because it looked hideous and like all intent had been drained out of it. if this is true, it's incredibly shitty from a labor standpoint, but also, man, the aspiration (or mandate) to make art as if you were a machine isn't much better

deleted a QRT of someone with a really uninformed opinion about George W. Bush because i'm like 99% sure they're a teenager

anyways Bush stole the election in broad daylight and nobody in power cared, which is among the reasons I don't believe Trump stole his. he lacks the capacity AND the need

i'm working on writing a hive mind / eusocial antagonist faction that engages in cannibalism as a form of ecstatic communication. i need short fiction or poetry recs for erotic cannibalism, especially if it also involves Gene Wolfe-esque merging of minds or spirits

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Let me tell you as someone who has worked in blue collar fields in southwestern Virginia you never quite get used to a pleasant polite coworker getting a little too excited about a topic and revealing that they would gleefully shoot an immigrant if given the chance.

It is extremely frustrating to talk about something like a wealth cap tied to 100x the minimum wage over a lifetime career, and people’s kneejerk reaction is “but what if that affects me?” and I can promise you that you aren’t making $180million (to use California as an example)

They're monarchists. They'll tell you they aren't but they want a big rich guy to run everything and make everything the way they want it with the overt threat of violence to whoever doesn't comply and when the king dies they want the kings shitty kid to take over and keep doing it.

remember in 2024 when the harris campaign advisors said "stop calling them weird"

This is a good piece on the intellectual dishonesty of the anti-trans campaign

Welcome to another world... PC Gamer CD-ROM. A snap of the splash screen launcher, with a sunrise cresting over a canyon overlooking wheat fields with CD-ROM crop circles burned into them.

A photo of the cardboard sleeve from Internet Archive of Disc 1 of the CD-ROM Premiere Edition. This Month's Feature Demo: Wing Commander III

The back of the sleeve shows the contents from WCIII to Arade Action, Simulations, Roleplaying, and Bug Patches.

"Welcome to another world..."

The first-ever PC Gamer magazine CD-ROM, released in December 1994.

With CD drive proliferation increasing, it was time to set aside cover floppies and embrace a shiny disc full of demos, shareware, and as many game patches as they could find on the early 'web.

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Newsom will not be able to win national office, no matter how many marginalized groups he throws under the bus. Cross him off the list now so it doesn’t come down to him as the presidential nominee. We can and should do better!

We have to crush the Republican party! Even if there’s an organization in the future that uses that name, it has to be radically different than the one that exists right now.

[THE CROWD CHEERS]

And then we have to do likewise to the Democratic party.

[I AM PELTED WITH ROCKS, BOTTLES AND OLD FISH]

Emergency backup goalie David Ayres steals show in Canes' win over Leafs | CBC Sports Emergency backup goalie David Ayers earned his first career NHL win in relief and Warren Foegele scored twice as Carolina picked up an improbable 6-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday a...

That's fun.

In hockey we have the "emergency backup goaltender" rule, which means an injury-hit team can dress someone who's not a roster player if they don't have a regular backup. It leads to great stories like this one:

www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

Turns out AI is mostly useless, and it ends up being humans who have to do the job in the way it needs to specifically be. Who would have thought.

AI is mostly a con. And it's only a matter of time before the realisation kicks in.

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

JD Vance, in-house book burner

Photo of Silvaze and Whispangle chibi keychains

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#Merch

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

This has always been an important part of the story... I wrote about the authoritarian personality and its relevance to Trump's "dealmaker" persona a decade ago in my incoherent, rambling and, yes, incoherent pamphlet on Trumpism... libcom.org/article/prop...

Foreign Minister Anand (@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social), why are you collaborating with a foreign fascist government to attack the human rights of trans people in Canada?

How can you be so depraved and spineless?

Okay REV 2 Bedman actually kinda fun

Can I have a few dollars for groceries ?

Sonic Adventure ad SEGA Dreamcast 1999

Sonic Adventure ad (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Sonic

Hey folks. Today, I'm officially coming out as trans. You can read the blog post about it if you're interested: coyoteandcrow.net/2025/08/05/k...
From here on out, please refer to me as Kenna Alexander. My pronouns are she/her or they/them.

The fact that CBC was too cowardly to film this is indicative of a much bigger problem in media.

When layoffs come, they tend to target journalists who are "problems" for management, who question authority.

This is what you lose when you only keep the journalists who are deferential to authority:

Anyone who's tempted to cheer the state going after porn sites like XVideos should think twice. Uthmeier made a name for himself forcing the censorship of LGBTQ+ library books by calling them "patently pornographic" and "harmful to minors."

If he's coming after us, he's coming after you.