timorous bestie

Oscar Isaac playing Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who goes too far and suffers the consequences

Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina playing a scientist who goes too far and suffers the consequences

Oscar Isaac in the movie Annihilation playing a scientist who goes too far and suffers the consequences

I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting

TCAT asked for $500K to avoid service cuts. Cornell counteroffered $31K. - The Ithaca Voice ITHACA, N.Y — Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) officials said the agency needed an additional $500,000 from each of its financial underwriters to plug its budgetary gaps, maintain current ser...

Meanwhile, Cornell is claiming it can't afford to find the local bus system: ithacavoice.org/2025/11/tcat...

Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.

“In a recent survey by CDT, a nonprofit civil-liberties body, 29% of responding teachers whose schools participate in monitoring said students’ personal devices were also tracked by their schools through apps, browser extensions or network filters.“

Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating

Voting for Nigel Farage because you want things to get better for the Working Class is like voting for Jimmy Savile because you want to help kids. 3 May 2025

The Labour Party are complicit in the grooming & rape of young white girls. That is why they deny a national inquiry. 3 May 2025

The Sky report on X is interesting but not surprising.

It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon.

One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”.

On the left? Right?
Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy

"oh that? it's an original handwritten lyrics sheet for the song Lori Meyers. Lori Meyers. Oh come on you remember Lori Meyers! She was the mouse kid from Night In The Woods! This is where the name came from! No, Night In The Woods. Yes, you know it. Oh my GOD yes ok I don't know what you know

I remember replaying monkey island 1 a few years ago and getting a little frustrated with the pacing, and realising that was me not being patient enough anymore. I think tech is worsening our ability to tolerate boredom. We gotta retrain to be ok with slower pacing and some waiting again

I hope other states take note about how to present ballot proposals about taxes because this is some excellent content design

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying

some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies

i feel like other things were happening when i posted this but it feels worth repeating that facebook could trace a path between you and basically everyone else in the world in about 3.5 hops on average and that was 9 years ago

A screenshot showing what appears to be a map with cuneiform labels to illustrate a post by The Ancient World Podcast which reads: "A typical complaint fielded by Babylon administrators: "I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don't tell me later, 'You did not write to me.' The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you."

This one was addressed to someone, I'm pretty sure, but I hope you enjoy it regardless because the writer is clearly frustrated and it feels it'd be so relatable to anyone who's had to write one of these type of emails.

"PER MY LAST TABLET: THE SESAME IS VISIBLY DYING."

3.2 We do not have to ‘embrace the future’ & we can turn back the tide It must be the sheer magnitude of [artificial neural networks’] incompetence that makes them so popular. Jerry A. Fodor (2000, p. 47) Related to the rejection of expertise is the rejection of imagining a better future and the rejection of self-determination free from industry forces (Hajer and Oomen 2025; Stengers 2018; van Rossum 2025). Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force. They embrace it because alternative responses seem too difficult, incompatible with industry developments, or non-existent. Instead of falling for this, we should “refuse [AI] adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.” (Reynoldson et al. 2025, n.p., also Benjamin 2016; Campolo and Crawford 2020; CDH Team and Ruddick 2025; Garcia et al. 2022; Kelly et al. 2025; Lysen and Wyatt 2024; Sano-Franchini et al. 2024; Stengers 2018). Such rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly. Organised workers died for the eight-hour workday, the weekend and other workers’ rights, and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons from fridges to mitigate ozone depletion in the atmosphere. And we know that even the tide itself famously turns back. People can undo things; and we will (cf. Albanese 2025; Boztas 2025; Kohnstamm Instituut 2025; van Laarhoven and van Vugt 2025). Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis

2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies.

(Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

I know I've been on Your Party a lot this weekend but I feel like I need to explain why they as a party (and their reply guys) upset me, as an individual, and why I feel they are set up for failure on trans rights. Buckle up cuz this is gonna be a thread.

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LUCASARTS PRESENTS
Columbo in:
SCUMM of the Earth
#pixelart

Frame: this man is here illegally

Negation: actually his paperwork is in order

Kirby: this is a racist attack by fascists bc a Black man is
leading a school district, and the better he's doing the more they hate him

i made a helpful reference

An upwards-tilted black and white photo of a road sign. Behind it are trees and powerlines and a blustery cloudy sky. The sign reads: (up arrow) Dubois 10 (left arrow) Paradise 3 (left arrow) Desire 5 (left arrow) Panic 7

The Pennsylvania Conceptual Zone

Kodak XX
Nikon N90

#filmphotography

In a Time of Mourning, Grief Stories Are a Lifeline The comfort found in reading about loss will never replace the need to be in community with grievers.

In further hauntings, @sesmith.lol reprinted a classic Catapult essay on why our favorite thing to do when grieving is read about grief.

I think Kamala Harris should run again in 2028 due to her massive popularity. Kamalamania has gripped the nation. When people think of the future they think Kamala Harris

Doubt it’s got legs.

"embrace datacenters or face federal intervention"

fucking called it

Oh no, how will you access the website that destroyed a generation's ability to interact with art in a normal way

-citizen, do you know your Gestapo from your Sipo? Your SA from your SD? Your Waffen SS from your..