I realized why this article bothers me. It's because it narrows being a devote Christian narrowly to ideas around sex which is an inherently conservative definition of Christianity. Talarico says his Christianity is what compels him to care about the poor.

Also this hand-wringing claiming that he "changed" post election is weird. Did they not watch any of his campaign?

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times

Where’s your fucking poppy?

Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.

I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?

Yall are so annoying.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.

Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

Secret Level on X: "Once again, our Coca-Cola “Holidays Are Coming” film is getting a lot of attention — but what most people don’t see is what goes on behind the scenes. Projects like this take an enormous amount of craft, coordination, and heart. From worldbuilding and animation to storytelling https://t.co/Wt6aoz1s6z" / X Once again, our Coca-Cola “Holidays Are Coming” film is getting a lot of attention — but what most people don’t see is what goes on behind the scenes. Projects like this take an enormous amount of craft, coordination, and heart. From worldbuilding and animation to storytelling https://t.co/Wt6aoz1s6z

They did! It’s amazing (derogatory)

x.com/secret__leve...

The studio that made the shitty coca-cola AI ad getting their teeth kicked in on socials bc of how icky bad it is, then the studio CEO coming out insulting and dismissing folks kicking their teeth in, and THEN releasing the worst ever cover up “hey we actually made this by hand” scam vid

🧍‍♀️

This is interesting drama to follow lol

TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives

A weird realisation that 10,000 miles from America, 50 years ago, children were brought up to believe the United States was a great country.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

It's genuinely so hilariously embarrassing

[the deepest, resigned sigh]

actually, Springsteen was the doctor

democrats, even in moderate districts, should vote for unpopular candidates vocally and materially opposed to their values and interests because this would make them better at implementing the policies they would prefer. (these policies are unrelated to their values and interests.)

"Ok yeah you caught me I replaced some of it with hot dogshit, but trust me it was a small part, the part I don't care at all about" would not inspire you to eat at a restaurant again.

The key thing about generative AI is that it is used by people who don't give a fuck about the output, and can't be fucked to learn.

I see a lot of complex speculation about why the president and republicans are going to such lengths to prevent poor people from getting food like what is their end goal, and for people who haven't talked to conservatives they want poor people to die, that's very literally it, stop overthinking this

ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'

e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)

when I ran the McDonald’s drive-thru as a teenager, a general manager told me I should have the food ready by the time the car pulled up to the second window - and be holding it out, smiling as they approached; my regular manager told us to ignore her, because nobody should do that for $4.15/hr

Homer and Marge Simpson.

"Yeah, I know Twitter is a Nazi cesspit, but I'm still on there for work reasons."

"Iol why are you following the boobs and ass artist" why do you think I'm following the boobs and ass artist. do you think I go to the grocery store ironically too

We also would have accepted the tumblr classic from his PR team.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

It's maddening! Go look at what the Scandinavian countries are doing to the welfare systems that they named a whole model after! Just a series of neoliberal own goals, means testing and belt tightening! We can buy F35s but god forbid a brown person accidentally gets too much support!

never even minding too that like. all the countries with big socialist infrastructures europe likes to brag about are busy chopping them apart in the hopes of pleasing like ten weird racists.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Eurosmug reactions conveniently ignoring that Mamdani's position on immigration would instantly slay 9/10 European politicians

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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