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It was a different time, a more civilized and gracious era, a epoch where elites could put aside petty differences and gather for leisurely dinner parties with their favorite pedophile ... wait, what the fuck.

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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

A lifted smart fortwo in dark camo paint, with big black wheels and knobby tires and a roof rack

nothing but respect to the urban assault smart car

Been laughing at this for about 10 minutes.

I don't know which is more surprising: The fact that Shameless USA ran for 11 seasons or the fact that the original, British Shameless has more episodes than the USA one (139 vs 134).

From the studio that broke ground in hand-drawn animation comes

Last time I heard of Deepak Chopra, he was at the 2025 "Games for Change" Festival promoting AI as a tool for mental health: variety.com/2025/gaming/...

Amazing how the games industry is welcoming to a certain kind of people...

'Factory' in cells found to prevent insulin abnormalities The finding by a group of researchers from Japanese universities, as well as British and South Korean scientists, could help with the development of new diabetes treatments.

An international research group that includes Japan has discovered a factory-like system in cells that prevents insulin abnormalities, a finding that could help in the development of new treatments for diabetes.

This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.

Kahvibreak, like Flashpoint, but for J2ME games:
bluemaxima.org/kahvibreak/

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

Neighbors Always Knew Teen Gunman Was Evil And Did Nothing Because They Are Evil Too

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Bubba Ho-tep, a surprisingly emotional film about ageing Elvis Presley fighting a mummy in a Texas rest home made for just $1 mil and featuring one of Bruce Campbell's best performances, is FREE on YouTube (in the States):
youtu.be/k2-WqEsQUQA

Best game ever made, frankly.

I just uploaded a repack of the 1999 PC port of the South Park FPS developed by Iguana Entertainment, I got asked by someone to do it and here it is.

The game is working with compatibility fixes, controller support and CD Music:

archive.org/details/sout...

"The owner of a cafe in an traditional Japanese house that is only open two days a week yet somehow never goes out of business"

x.com/dailyportalz...

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

I went on a tour through mbilia's website (which sometimes felt like it was running off of a motherboard stuffed into a shoe) and I am unironically calling it 40% odds that they're one guy in dubai who's close friends with a hasbro licensing liaison

also these things are unlikely to ever exist

To say that the majority of Trek fans are right wing and that women don’t *really* like it is something that only a real trek fan would know that only a fake Trek fan would say

getting the entirety of hitler's 1934 nuremberg rally speech tattooed on my back, as a tribute to my nazi-fighting grandfather from the 101st airborne.

Moral panic In 1907, a Catholic priest in Michigan declared teddy bears to be "horrible monstrosities", which by supplanting the "good old dolls" would cause girls to lose the urge to nurture babies, leading to declining birth rates among the white population and race suicide. The suggestion attracted widespread but short-lived attention.[18]

via teddy bear article

This is absolutely deranged. Just frothing maniac shit.

There is nothing sensible, proportionate or indeed conservative, about the Conservatives.