Cap'n Smite

We now know 60% to 70% of MAGA accounts were coming from bot farms outside the U.S.

That means every time you or I argued/engaged with a MAGA account, the odds were worse than a coin flip we were dealing with a bot.

Same goes for our politicians (and President) any time they promoted a MAGA post.

I have long had an obscure, complex theory about Susan Collins that explains these things.

Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube.

That's it. That's the whole thing.

Moving: that famously zero-cost option.

That depends: do Onions dream of homoerotic sheep?

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Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.

it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.

Whether or not this is technically illegal, the bosses at rockstar are little craven baby worms for this.

YouTube video by People Make Games The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

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That dog is very stressed, maybe setting off some fireworks near it is a solution

A photo of the laserdisc cover for Disney's The Santa Clause, featuring Tim Allen in a red onsie. There's a blue box around his "breasts", and a green box around the hand on holding the laserdisc

I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)

Elon released a transparency feature that defaulted to revealing location.

All kinds of MAGA accounts were outed as being based outside the US. About 2/3 of the MAGA and far-right accounts are based in Russia, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

Musk has since shut down the location feature.

Annual reminder about turkey frying safety:

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

"Bad information, but delivered confidently." Isn't that also the exact kind of personality the tech bros creating this garbage have? They probably see it as working as intended.

We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.

a man wearing a red beanie and a jacket is smiling and looking at the camera . Alt: Dave Chappelle as Tyrone Biggums, wearing a red beanie and a jacket is smiling and looking at the camera, scratching his neck because he needs another fix to feed his addiction

Taking a break from playing Clover Pit

*5 minutes later*:

Trump makes goo-goo eyes at Mamdani while Reagan’s portrait looks on

Meme of man making goo-goo eyes at passing woman while holding hands with upset girlfriend

Anyone posted this one yet?

My version of a Joe Shuster-style Superman drawing. He’s in a wide stance with his arms wide and flexed as chains around his arms, chest, and ankles shatter. He has a slightly amused look on his face. The color palette is almost inverted with maroon for the blue, and tall for the red. And instead of an S in the shield on his chest it’s an M. But not really an M. It’s a symbol that means ‘Maybe it will happen today’. Over his head in signature zooming 3D type it says ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

well

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism