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I guess this means all the institutional investors are neck-deep in bubble assets, so it's time for the real speculators to begin easing the rug out from under them

Also recommend having a poke around Shinjuku Ni-Chome, the gay district, for taking photos. It's incredibly dense with detail, like every side street is a little universe unto itself

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this is the funniest thing the internet has produced in a long time, but only for the small group of us millennials who came of age around south london. amazing that an american has nailed this so perfectly

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Still find it remarkable that phonk is a total nonentity in Europe

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They're most definitely intentionally sabotaging search to corral you into using their LLM instead. Hope that they choke.

Best place to make gifs!

"We want long, billowing, silken robes with intricate patterns and overwrought seamwork to really sell the sophisticated yet rigid and staid state of their culture"

"Mhhh, afraid costume blew most of the season's budget on nose prosthetics last episode, no can do!"

"In that case ... 🤔"

Heard that's best treated as a single season show, but I cannae be arsed to find out for myself

I think the worst thing about it is the late 00s/early 10s random gratuitous sex and nudity they start piling on, the casting and plotting stays pretty strong throughout as long as you don't uh take it too seriously, which becomes increasingly hard to do anyway.

I think it just leans into its own ridiculousness. It was easy to take the first few seasons seriously because the concept was new, but it's actually completely ridiculous from the word go and just goes fully gonzo as each season tries to top the previous one. It's got a joke, and it squeezes it dry

It's not easy for me, but I have to admit I occasionally look very cool

You lmao'd

Which ah you might say is a troubling development but hey I like drugs so

Recreational drug use has become one my recommendations for people who struggle to find meaning and joy in life because it's pretty much fucking guaranteed to work, unless the majority of the conventional methods

Vent, går debatten ut på at unge "radikaliseres" på internett og at de må vernes mot det heller enn at unges virkelighetsforståelse blir forvridd av popularitetsjag og algoritmisk filtring? Er implikasjonen at algoritmisk filtring er et VERN mot radikalisering?

I thought dealing with China would make them more liberal and grow the pie!

Does DeepSeek count?

I was trying to evoke the "screw you guys I'll make my own forum [sets up unskinned Invision with 38 different way too granular subforums for four users, three of whom are mods]" dynamic from the early-to-mid 2000s

Running your own Mastodon instance is the new setting up your own Invision Power Board

When an elite narrative cracks, it's generally useful to take that moment of clarity and see if it can be applied elsewhere. It usually can, and this is often how you legitimize alternatives to the current regime: You puncture more and more of their myths, don't stop at the emperor's new clothes!

The notion of "AI slurs" is a fantastic and fortunately hilarious example of how elite pseudoethics are established and promulgated. Less hilarious examples includes ideas like "corporate journalism is brave", "politics of envy", "will of the people" and "voting with your feet".

FRACTAL
July 23rd 2006. When a transport ship capsized, an unidentified liquid leaked into the ocean. It formed a perfect Mandelbrot’s fractal pattern. In the following months, strange fish were reported in the area.
Little did we know, this was only the beginning. (🧵)

(Really liked Dork Ages, btw, shockingly good once you get over the "why is this Quake tribute band calling itself a Doom tribute band" cognitive dissonance)

I went through a bit of this with Doom the Dork Ages, kind of messing up the pacing when there were "secret keys" because I would spend half a level's playtime hunting for icons, slopes and low walls on the surprisingly ungood map, trying to determine if the key was in the current level section

Between this and the boiled wooden spoons, it feels a lot like Grau's new business model is to confirm every possible stereotype about the centre-left press to harvest hate clicks from horseshoers

I'm hoping it rollercoasters up, but would have been nice if it put you on the ramp a bit sooner. Will probably give it another shot tonight

On the other hand it is mildly encouraging to see they had the same problems with overexposure and crushed color information as I had when I tried to write a custom high-contrast lighting system. 🤔