Josh from High Tech Low Life

"As part of the ageeement, Disney will receive warrants to buy additional OpenAI equity. Disney employees will also use OpenAI tools including ChatGPT to build new products."

the company that literally rewrote copyright laws to squeeze an extra 20 years out of mickey mouse has now exchanged access to mickey mouse for magic beans www.wsj.com/business/med...

so uh, the ending to NO COUNTRY isn’t ambiguous?

& the "Speedweve for mending" fun tutorial zine by @snblickhan.bsky.social & me: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.

Whatever spin you may hear from politicians, there are only two actual positions on healthcare. “Universal healthcare that covers everybody,” or “we must protect the huge industry of insurance middlemen making money off of it.”

Gustavo Fring: You want automation to cut down on Labor costs I want automation to liberate us from needing to work. We are not the same

"Stingrays are such beautiful, elegant sea creatures." Picture is of a submerged Corvette Stingray in a canal.

Yeens frolicking with breakbeat soundtrack.

hidefdoritos on tumblr writes: BTW today I met a person who's at least 50, uses they/it pronouns, and named themself Wyvern. It looks like if Santa was a biker and it plays D&D at the local library. Just a reminder that you can do whatever you want, forever.

2 panel comic Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone” Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

Fallon: And do you use ChatGPT when wiping your ass?

Altman: I cannot imagine wiping my ass without ChatGPT.

Fallon: *rocks with laughter for 87 seconds*

What’s that saying, hit dog holler

People are asking a lot of questions about my mental and physical health that are already answered by my extended public rant about my physical and mental health.

Episode 109 - Robocop 2

The adventures of Robert Policeman continue as we cover Robocop 2. Lot of good and bad in this one, but you can't say it's boring.

open.spotify.com/episode/62Bz...

Cat girl accessories

Do not pay for that Discord, here's your cyber security career success kit

how is this surprising if you've ever read a history book

JFC wish people would stop saying THE HUNGER GAMES ripped off BATTLE ROYALE. (Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, parroting Quentin Tarantino, being the latest offender.) Might as well say it ripped off THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME; DEATH RACE 2000; ROLLERBALL; THE RUNNING MAN; THE 10th VICTIM tbc

If you live in Illinois District 9, there is only one choice

Me and @themattfowler.bsky.social joke about this every time a prompt of this sort goes around. If you grew up as a movie-loving kid in the 70s-90s, you can probably pretty quickly name a couple hundred movies that you’ve seen more than six times each - and then keep going. I know I sure could.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

A drawing of the bearded, bespectacled Peter Kropotkin.

A drawing of the bearded, bespectacled Peter Kropotkin in a top hat, pulled in a carriage, escaping from a Russian prison.

We are just in time to celebrate the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—the geographer, author, and anarchist revolutionary widely known for helping to popularize the concept of mutual aid—with this account detailing his narrow escape from a St. Petersburg prison.

crimethinc.com/KropotkinBre...

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Someone needs to report him to Social Services.

One of the Kansas City Public Library branches even has a seed library where you can get native/local seeds and seedlings for free with your library card!

It's just another wonder of public libraries. Use them. Love them.

Against gold fabric, a stack of Solaris paperbacks by Premee Mohamed: THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS, BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS and THE VOID ASCENDENT. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

Are you looking for a stack of genre-convention defying Premee-ium speculative fiction?

Look no further!

Come get @premeemohamed.com 's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Robert & Michelle King Head To ‘Vatican City’ With Papal Drama In Works At Hulu, Reuniting With Scott Free Robert and Michelle King are headed to 'Vatican City'. On the papal drama, in development at Hulu, the Kings are reuniting with Scott Free.

holy what??? Robert & Michelle King are creating a show about a female journalist at the Vatican, sounds like if Conclave was also a media version of The Good Wife? Was this show made in a lab for me @clairewillett.bsky.social & @emilynussbaum.bsky.social specifically?? deadline.com/2025/12/robe...

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