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I actually am curious to know what people think are the earliest video games that have a serious claim to being the best in their genre. Not like “good for the time,” but like genuinely better than anything else out there.

its really, lets say 'awkward', that every fucking "oopsie i voted for trump" article that gets pushed as an example of trump voters changing always glides over the trump voter's rabid hatred of gays and trans people that doesn't exactly tell me they're my future ally.

It's the game I would play if I were an independently wealthy immortal.

broke: great man theory of history

woke: great idiot theory of history

Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.

rape is a public good whose value is up for debate in bourgeois liberal society. who benefits when literally millions of hours of human life and emotional energy are wasted questioning the woman's humanity, so that no one comfortable ever has to draw a line on abuse? What is America without abusers?

i think this is why so many ppl end up just engaging with kids shows. our media landscape is dominated by grey morality and yeah thats interesting sometimes but its *so* prevalent that people forget we can imagine a truly good person. people forget we can be a truly good person

In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")

just remember that one day when there’s no consequences to calling a spade a spade, everyone will have been against this

i want you to remember the people who call for objectivity and neutrality while hundreds of innocent people are slaughtered only to claim they were against it 5 years from now

There’s also this fucking trope of “the dumb public want immediate results”. Firstly, if your entire campaign is based on the promise of change, that’s on you. Secondly, the public would be fucking delighted to have not had the immediate results of attacking the most vulnerable people in the country

NO

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Today is the last day that you can repost this image

i wonder if anyone is going to ask the other question: why are kids confiding in AI how they feel about *insert mental health topic* and not confiding in a real person? or are we just going to use this as another “AI bad” thing and move on?

getting rid of AI won’t fix the problems that got us here

This. Far too many people don't want to accept the fact racists, fascists, zionists, misogynists, transphobes, rapists, etc., actually WANT AND ENJOY to dehumanize, brutalize, abuse the people they harm.

If cultural impact is a measure of success, Morbius was a massive hit

i wish people would stop saying that people like me being driven forcefully out of public life and murdered is a distraction from stuff that matters

this is terrible, guys. I don't know how many different ways to tell you this is terrible. In argument, in how it is presented and asserted, but also in the genuine display of both ignorance and tacit arrogance. Especially when most people in a given field really seem to hate the tools as they exist

only skies over Isla and Senglea, off the grand harbour in malta

who up gloaming they gloaming

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Backing up Spotify We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...

lol spotify got scraped. 186 million songs about to hit torrents

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"village" mentality is what sustains conservatism. not being able to do anything without the Grandma Gestapo reporting your every move. depending on the easily withdrawn kindness of others instead of impersonal but reliable services. and of course obeying aristocratic landowners

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

Also as you have mentioned we are in this space with AI because the AI boosters went on an antisocial rampage advertising their technology as life destroying so now people are mad that their lives are going to be destroyed (they will not be destroyed)

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

Liberals with excess wealth laugh at the Right for showering money on CinnabonKKKrystal and ShilohtheNazi, but are nowhere to be found when authentic poor Black and Brown folks who have been suffering for ages seek even so much as a penny for their basic survival. We see you (not) giving a damn.

If ai is so good at making things why have I never seen a single good thing made by it

Shot from the film Tropical Malady, showing a young Thai man with short black hair, wearing a white t-shirt and blue shorts, lying upright on his side on a bed, looking out of the broad windows of a bedroom out to a sunlit rural landscape, a grassy field, beyond which is forest. He is looking away from the camera, face unseen.

The Andrew Wyeth painting Christina's World, showing a young, thin white woman with black hair tied back from behind, wearing a pink dress, lying upright on her side on a grassy field, looking at the house on the horizon. Her face is unseen.

Tropical Malady (2004) / Christina's World (1948)

"we're having a crisis of masculinity!11!" - a man-baby dork

This is because what they're fantasizing about isn't a civil war - it's the Rwandan Genocide. They fantasize about killing unarmed queers, Blacks, and liberals in the street with protection from state security forces and the full backing of the government.