Greggo Movie Rants

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

The coasters are all pretty great, though I loved Big Bear and Lightning Rod the most. Get cinnamon bread wherever and whenever you can, and otherwise just slow down and enjoy the atmosphere in the mountains!

Huge thanks to @solorpglist.com for the highlight! I loved making SPLICED and glad to see y'all enjoying it too!
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Not “ICE” changing license plates in a back lot.

They wouldn’t do that, would they? Maybe the authorities should look into this.

So here’s the thing about the common conception of Dune and the butlerian jihad.

The danger has never been AI “going rogue” or “gaining sentience”. It’s just strings of linear algebra.

The danger is in people surrendering their ability to think to a machine.

You don't need a degree in cognitive neuroscience to get this. I started out knocking on doors. I hated it, but even I have to admit I learned a lot about how normal people understand things. For most normal, persuadable, gettable voters, politics is a TV that's on loud in another room.

In Surprise Move, Virginia Dems to Announce Redistricting to Counter GOP Gerrymanders Read more here.

BREAKING: Virginia Democrats to announce a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map, making Virginia the second state to announce a redistricting process that could net seats for Democrats ahead of 2026 midterms.

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

This is how a dictatorship works

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Sharing this here, Just so more people are aware and know... It hasn't been a good day learning any of this. I wish the victims the best going forward. Kindly do not harass anyone listed in this document. Thank you.

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When we had a consensus that Nazi symbols are bad, that was better.

The two acceptable mainstream interpretations of Nazi symbols were:
1) Bad on purpose
2) Bad by accident, opposed to the ideas the symbols represent, embarrassed by the accident, quickly act to correct it.

I think that was better.

People saying things like "oh come on, why do you care about a little Nazi symbol?" is, in the very question, a sign of decline.

The answer "because Nazi symbol," with no further explanation needed, was assumed.

When we had that consensus, it was better.

“Apple, Google, and Meta were under no obligation to remove these apps,” says @alexabdo.bsky.social. “If they did it because the DOJ threatened them, even implicitly, that’s a First Amendment violation. The government shouldn’t be able to behave like a mob boss in going after protected speech.”

We're up to 34 submissions for the Games against Genocide charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders!

All TTRPGs are welcome as long as long as they haven't been a part of an itchio charity bundle before! The deadline to submit is November 3!

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Avatar whatacartouchebag Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image. 5d Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine. So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do: In the url bar, type in about:config It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue. One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy. The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Today marks the centennial of CELIA CRUZ.

The Queen of Salsa
La Guarachera de Cuba

A once in a lifetime talent. No one comes close to her impact. There are many great male names in what has come to be called salsa music. There is only one woman. Without a doubt, the greatest of all time. #GOAT ❤️🎵

The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that

Chuck Dixon created Bane. I don't bring this up to argue that creating that character somehow negates his current behavior, but to talk about a problem very prevalent in comics. And that is bigoted people making bank off the very marginalized groups they later demonize and discredit.

"They didn't see how Ben Solo was alive". Idk, ask Palpatine?

John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) Leftists need to recognize that to the vast majority of Americans they are not something different from liberals but just a more intensely annoying form of liberal. X| Today at 09:50

No Other Land Film - Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

Link below.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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But yeah yall, don't try to compare yourself to the past you without taking into consideration that things have a absolutely changed in such drastic ways that the fact you are even surviving now is a triumph

of the 4 oldest Senators 3 are Republicans, Chuck Grassley (92), Mitch McConnell (83), and Jim Risch (83) (the other is Bernie at 84) and the oldest House member is also a Republican (Hal Rogers 87) The oldest President ever is a Republican

take from that what you want

Fly across the country to Fly Across the Country: For Fun!

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

"Make it or it won't exist." has been my fuel these days