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An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

A pixel-art portrait of the LX video game system from UFO 50 with the words "STILL PLAYING FOREVER" beneath it, delivered as a faux-magazine-ad for UFO 50 physical editions for Nintendo Switch. The deluxe and standard editions, along with a UFO Companion guidebook, are visible at the bottom of the image, along with the Mossmouth and Fangamer logos and a note that preorders are open now for a 2026 delivery.

UFO 50 is coming to Nintendo Switch in two physical editions, along with a recently unearthed 100+ page UFO Companion guidebook!

Preorder now: www.fangamer.com/collections/...

A Twitter user quote tweeting a public defender complaining that leftists have been calling for them to be killed for defending people accused of crimes and saying this person admitted that they've defended rapists and helped them get lighter sentences. Another user points out public defenders don't chose their clients and the original poster responds so they were just following orders then?

I've seen discourse you people wouldn't believe

There are large portions of the country that still do not have access to broadband.

I've been dreading this turn for months — the war over AI scraping data is undercutting a load-bearing part of the internet, and it will probably only get worse.

[spends less than the price of a movie ticket on a video game] this better entertain me for the rest of my life or i will be so mad

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

The vicious cycle of monopolization:

1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.

The Google AI "answer" to this is downright astonishing.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

You never realize how standardized and ingrained modern gaming UI/UX conventions are until you try playing something very old.

Tonight's film is PSYCHO GOREMAN, which I described in the programming notes as a "parade of delights & practical effects"

so many great moments in this thing but there's one I really adore that I feel gets overshadowed by "my hunky boys" & the puppets & cosmic space battles & closing credits rap

Apparently slingshots with stocks are a thing that exists?

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Mage Arena's accents menu; particularly of note is that the British setting has been removed with the explanation: "British has been disabled, It did not work for anyone"

Also this is one of the funniest screens I have ever seen in a video game

Medieval guy listening to a proclamation: this could have been a tapestry

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

A man sits at a PC setup tucked away in the corner of a room with a low, sloped ceiling. A CRT monitor sits atop a desk with a pull-out keyboard tray. Posters for Ghost in the Shell and Army of Darkness are pinned to the ceiling.

A man wearing a trench coat over a t-shirt sits in a low chair in a bare, beige corner lit by a floor lamp. He is holding an orange drink in a wine glass in one hand and gesticulating with his other hand. Text in the lower third reads: Brian Hurley, Detroit Industial Underground.

A man sits in an office chair in front of a computer desk. The armrests of the chair have extensions to hold keyboards and space to use a mouse. The desk in the background has two CRT monitors. Christmas lights are strung about the ceiling.

A man in a sleeveless metallica top stands in front of a multi-level audio workspace. Speakers, keyboards, mixers, monitors, a laptop and other gear fill the space. Text in the center of the image reads: "Grandmaster Ratte has been writing and distributing textfiles for over 20 years."

some incredible setups and people featured in BBS: The Documentary

jc denton: tell me more about these "lifehacks".

deus ex npc: you can use a hairclip around long wires, like on headphones, to keep them from getting tangled.

jc: human ingenuity is powerful.

deus ex npc: use a pringles can to hold your pasta.

jc: powerful - and dangerous.

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Holy shit they've invented Inception levels of scamming

I am not making this up: the dude on our gate microphone at LAX today called boarding for “Group A as in Apple-bottom jeans” and “Group B as in Boots with the fur”

I do not understand the endurance of Avatar as a property. It seems like it must be some kind of social bug or result of an occult pact of some kind.

Chess with two colors is so last year.

It’s gonna be a Monster Energy drink laced with ivermectin.

Can I call these folks Nazis, or still nah?

HAHA genAI is so fucking stupid. Congrats on pissing away like $150B or whatever it cost to have an AI that spells worse than a 2nd grader, Sam Altman you dumbass.