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Paul Kirchner’s metaphysical trip continues in The Bus 3 Paul Kirchner’s surreal comic strip The Bus is a looping, deadpan fugue of modern alienation and mechanical ritual, where a lone Commuter drifts through absurd, Escher-like permutations of transit …

Paul Kirchner's metaphysical trip continues in The Bus 3 biblioklept.org/2025/08/07/p...

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

the Dreadful POINT serial & short fiction

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AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They suck shit

We have to get comfortable telling people they’ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.

AAPL Up 500% On Tim Cook's Announcement of PedoPhone - The Ultimate Phone for Pedophiles

Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:

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If you're angry about Republican gerrymandering, you should ask your representatives if they support, after new referendums, admitting DC and the territories as states — giving them democratic representation and Democrats both additional House seats and new Senators.

(guy who doesn't like movies, literature, or punk rock) ai filmmaking and story telling is punk rock

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

Here's some of Phil Hale's Swamp Thing covers.

Cool idea

the solution to growing illiteracy?

pulp magazines.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

Every Blood Bowl related commission is a celebration for me.

Dave Taylor

What if we selected only fourteen young men and women to be sacrificed to the Minotaur each year

Americans Say No As Terrified ICE Agents Flee from Angry Citizens "It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming. Every day, anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!" a rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in Kansas.

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...

nazi dorks in a fight with a bystander down on a street. hard to make out details but it's blood tribe in matching red uniforms.

Looks like Blood Tribe got stood up to in Concord, NH this afternoon. Still working on more details, but so far it seems they tried their flash march / rally like usual and people weren't having it and threw punches. People say they ran away scared with a large police presence in the area after.

A beautifully amateurish (non derogatory) flyer for a bolt-thrower gig, with some badass sketches of space marines, titans, elder tanks and various other random shit

I mean come on folks, this is the good shit right here