in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
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You clearly need another week in Orlando!!
This Kickstarter for a new musical is so close to being funded, but only has 6 days left! If you have anything to spare for live theater and creative new work, please check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us
meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after
Sometimes these extremes are within the same country!
Ooh I would love to read this!!! 😍
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country.
That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
I think you may be thinking of the Vimes Boot Theory from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_t...
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
I’m so sorry, Andrew. Sending love you all ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for listening and validating my feelings towards The Love Is Gone!! ❤️
Is this update time sensitive, or will I still be able to access these items/quests if I’m not able to play until later in January? 🎄🌟
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Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Collective failure to repudiate Trumpism is how we got here. Throwing trans folks under the bus is how we got here. Denying the fact that healthcare is a human right is how we got here.
I don’t know what else to say. We are not getting through to enough people for some reason.
This entire weekend
The 'ai' fraud is a uniquely dangerous accelerationist scam because its harms begin right now and extend indefinitely:
• in the short term, it fucks up your immediate work, needs, safety,and erodes trust in any image or text
• creative people are instantly impacted as workers &victims of plagiarism
All of this thread.
We cannot turn whole universities into AI development centers. This is a commercial and political obsession, not education or skill-development.
I’m just a simple country historian w/o a law degree, but it’s more than a ‘long standing tradition’ when its IN THE CONSTITUTION
