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I want to believe someone got bribed for this because I can’t imagine someone thinking this somehow enhances their art

You’d probably get the sane results if the Alpha Legion were on the list. The idea of highly adept autonomous cadres isn’t exactly foreign to socialist thought or praxis

Not at all the point being made, comics as an art medium still has so much untapped potential

Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night...

BREAKING: A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night to shield Portland from additional National Guard deployments, which she said was the move of an administration "circumventing" her earlier order.

The medium is the message, short form video is a slop medium so your message is best conveyed in the preferred slop format for an audience that loves slop

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It’s literally doing what it needs to, successfully taking up attention space.

This is tiktok we’re talking about here not YouTube or network TV, at this point anyone regularly using tiktok actively wants slop content like this. The intern that put this together knew the assignment

Fanart of Sayla Mass and Mirai Yashima from Mobile Suit Gundam in the style of a wartime recruitment ad. Sayla cradles Mirai's face in her hand and the two gaze at each other knowingly. Text to the right of the couple reads "Do the job HE left behind"; text at the bottom reads "APPLY. E.F.F. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE."

Bright, shut up and get out. I'm going to fuck your wife now.

Coke Rap is nothing if not intrigue-heavy, especially in contrast to more ‘basic’ Trap, the Gangsta Rap that preceded it and the Drill music that succeeded it. All 3 of the latter tend to aestheticize the roles of the ‘pawns’. The cooks-crooks-hustlers-dealers-shooters-fall guys.

everyone the world over desperately trying to manifest low interest rates is definitely a sign of a healthy global economy

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lmao even

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tbh the ornamental precious metals market is probably in deeper trouble than the 💎 one. There's at least 1 major company that's already cut out the middle men entirely that's a decade old now, no reason why others won't follow their lead

Botswana Muddies Anglo American’s Plan To Sell De Beers The diamond-price crash caused by a flood of laboratory grown gems has hit the profit of industry leader De Beers and made it harder to sell

They saw 'natural' diamonds lose the messaging war against lab-grown so hard that De Beers is being sold as we speak and outside of the nation of Botswana there don't seem to be many if any buyers

I can't prove it but a network of jewelers is pumping out anti-24K gold ai propaganda videos for the purpose of getting people to stop asking about 'pure' gold jewelry because if people stop buying sub-18K their profit margins will evaporate

YouTube video by Big A Xbox Is Imploding (ft. Lina Khan)

Lina Khan might somehow be more popular now that she's out of power than she was in it, real 'we didn't know how good we had it' vibe

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@sarajadewoodsmith made this Halloween decoration with real branches and reflective sheets for the eyes and it rocks!

This isn't a problem for comics because of how (relatively) easy it is to judge a book by it's cover if you discount the number of parents who've accidentally bought their kids copies of Berserk because they missed the 18+ label

YouTube video by Christy Anne Jones the problem with cozy fantasy and romantasy ✨ (+ why I'll write cozy books anyway)

Fiction novel publishing being particularly susceptible to branding/search-engine-optimization should get more attention, every author I know is more concerned with the potential marketing of their work than they're comfortable with but recognize that they have to keep marketing in mind

It’s pretty emblematic of today’s US Army, if you didn’t go to jump school, Ranger school, or some kind of SOF course, people question whether you were really “in” the Army at all, thus a whole bunch of officers who could be helpful self select out

Exhausting. The good news is that the Trump team are still dancing to the tune of legality even if they are getting it wrong every time. The bad news is that dancing to the tune of legality can still lead to very horrible things.

The former aestheticizes the traffickers, the plugs with international connections. People who understand how decisions made by politicians effect the black market business environment they have to operate within. No matter how intense a gang war gets, it’ll always be a low-intrigue affair.

Coke Rap is nothing if not intrigue-heavy, especially in contrast to more ‘basic’ Trap, the Gangsta Rap that preceded it and the Drill music that succeeded it. All 3 of the latter tend to aestheticize the roles of the ‘pawns’. The cooks-crooks-hustlers-dealers-shooters-fall guys.

Someone needs to do a big mega post of all these guys who have photos with trump. He gotta be the American with the most photos standing next to convicted pedophiles.

A rare acknowledgment by Trump of his eventual exit from the political arena:

inasmuch as "what is slop" is a defining question for the current media landscape i think this is kind of the first serious entry? most other analysis is just "it's that AI thing that we hate", but this sort of gets at why we hate it

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.