Umberto Eco's Ur-Mom

Happy Hallowmas to all who observe

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI.

Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

We’re just innocent men

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Does that truck's suspension have a gofundme?

Their catalog used to play up the icky nature of military surplus ironically. Their graphics looked like a Russ Meyer exploitation film, with pinup girls in historical costumes ranging from soviets to nazis to modern uniforms. What happened? Why drop that to unironically boost a dead nazi?

I used to give Varusteleka a pass for cheekily leaning into the inherently cursed nature of military surplus. But outright endorsing a guy who ran off to join the SS with new products? How embarrassing

FYA Ian from FW is at it again in his latest video. Recommend grabbing the video and comments before he backtracks and deletes again.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Yep, here's your problem

dang, looks like everyone had the same idea

oh

hiding a zombie bite you say?

Them: "Touch grass"

The grass:

on one hand it's a tool of the jackboots, on the other hand it's so gimmicky it hindered cop ops...

seems bad

Looks like the ape guns from the original planet of the apes. And it looks like they designed it with ape ergonomics in mind too, wild

And the Soviet trials of Unit 731 were dismissed by the US as "communist propaganda"

Trump says of migrant farm laborers: "These people do it naturally."

"I said to a farmer the other day, 'What happens if they get a bad back?' He said, 'They don't get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die.'"

lmao this is perfect thank you

Please please tell me she clowns on private school asians that write cliched uninsightful articles like, "A child of two worlds," or "caught between cultures"

Conspiracy theory of the day: streaming services intentionally release bad audio mixes so viewers resort to using subtitles. Subtitles are more engaging for easily-distracted viewers, and gameify the experience by adding an active task. It's like adding subway surfers to every video

Mysterious ‘Orange Shape’ Raises More Questions About Epstein Footage A CBS investigation claims officials may have misled the public about a series of details on Jeffrey Epstein’s final night alive.

A mysterious “orange shape” was recorded ascending the stairs to where Jeffrey Epstein’s cell was located the night he died.

@mrlovenstein.bsky.social

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

nick mullen's latest bit

NEW: A Korean province plans to compensate the descendants of one of Korea's most significant uprisings: The Donghak Rebellion of 1894. I show how this rebellion against foreign interention led to Japan's takeover of Korea in 1905, with a big assist from the USA.🇰🇷🇰🇵

open.substack.com/pub/timshorr...

A police officer arrests Chuck E Cheese while children watch in the background

A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...