Jay Dee

Good old Ace

Establish dominance by

Discworld QOTD, from Eric

"Hell, it has been suggested, is other people.

This has always come as a bit of a surprise to many demons, who had always thought that hell was sticking sharp things into people and pushing them into lakes of blood and so on."

On Jimmy Kimmel: It's Time to Destroy the Censorship Machine and Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996 In 1996, Bill Clinton set the stage for what Donald Trump is doing now by creating a censorship machine of consolidated media, broadband, and tech firms. It's time to break it apart.

In 1996, President Clinton passed the Telecommunications Act.

This repealed New Deal restrictions on media consolidation.

It also continued industry deregulation stretching back to Carter and Reagan.

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Study on popular weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it | CBC News An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environmental groups in Canada to ask the federal government t...

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Of course Scorsese is making a film about night, the time of day most hospitable to crime

Warner Bros. wasn't even up for sale. Big bad Paramount just decided they wanted it, Warner was like "Wait, we can sell this thing?" and now Paramount doesn't even get it. What an absolutely stupid chain of events.

New Stranger Things season draws on nostalgia for 2016 when it was good HOLLYWOOD, CA - Netflix's smash hit Stranger Things, which has drawn on influences like E.T., Nightmare On Elm Street, and Back To The Future, has used its recently-released 5th season to draw on view...

New Stranger Things season draws on nostalgia for 2016 when it was good

The USPS' saving grace is that it's mandated by the Constitution. The problem is that the clause could be reinterpreted in ways that would destroy what we know as postal service in this country. I don't put it past a Trumpist judiciary to do this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_...

Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors

Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction Corporations and nations are touting plans to suck greenhouse gases out of the air. But the crucial priority this decade is slashing emissions.

The only people who believe you can keep producing oil and rely on carbon capture are those who want to keep producing oil. 14/22

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) - About Netflix

It’s official. 😑
All I can say is, things could have gone worse.

Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage ⋆ The Breach Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down how Carney and Smith have fulfilled Big Oil’s entire wish list

PM Mark Carney and premier Danielle Smith may never get a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific, but they're working to link Canada's energy future to fossil fuel production

I spoke with @sethdklein.bsky.social about the climate carnage

breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

One thing that’s pretty consistent in American history is elites getting away with it

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Anyone who uses the language of business when talking about government is, at this point, a dishonest looter and should be loudly and repeatedly mocked

Nice to see the full moon stick around a bit this morning

HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM

I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.

PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!

People need homes they can afford!

ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the ‘Haters,’ Indictment Says DOJ Says Violent Stalker Used ChatGPT to Encourage Him to Find the ‘Wife Type’

This is horrifying: “A Pittsburgh man who allegedly made 11 women’s lives hell across more than five states used ChatGPT as his “therapist” and “best friend” that encouraged him to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women”

Twitter becomes the first site to take a hit from the EU Digital Services Act

*ELON MUSK'S X HIT WITH €120M EU FINE FOR CONTENT LAW BREACHES
*EU COMMISSION SAYS X MADE 3 VIOLATIONS OF DIGITAL SERVICES ACT
*EU GIVES X 60 DAYS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS, 90 DAYS TO IMPLEMENT

not sure why or how, but David Lowery's new film Mother Mary got a mention in my dream last night. I want some of that marketing budget, David!

A Northern Night
Franz Johnston
1917

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

Best Picture of 1932!

a black and white shot of thin white male, older, with short white hair and a shirt and dark jacket, standing in front of what looks like a busy counter, out of focus. The caption reads 'Nothing ever happens'.

watched Grand Hotel (d. Goulding, w. Baum, Drake)

once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame

because fuck you, that's why

Biffo sticks his boots in his fridge, which he has labeled "FRIDGE" in large block letters. BIFFO: Into the fridge with them.

Beano #2096, September 18, 1982

I lately cannot abide political memes with all caps text in bold colors, that's just not the way I want to live