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HUH TURNS OUT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE AND THEY NEED REAL DONATIONS

WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS

This means Mastercard in particular is actively afraid of people bringing up Riot's connection to them negatively.

I think people should raid Riot's official livestreams and start spamming things like:

"#SaveSpeech from Mastercard!"
"MASTERCARD HATES THIS --> (.)(.)"
"#stopkillinggames"

and more

I like the way they desperately tried to reframe to avoid showing the character on the left sitting down, was apparently just a torso weirdly fused into the table.
SO useful!

They have always been bullies, but they hid behind decorum and tradition.
But now they have the authoritarian bit in their mouth and they can’t wait to send troops against Democrats.

Billy Long has an extensive history of alleged corruption, so his firing invites the question of what exactly he did or perhaps what he refused to do for Trump.

If Trump is forcing his own pick out, there's likely a scandal brewing they're hoping to get ahead of.

I think we need a symposium on Democratic comms to understand how limp rhetoric like "He owes the American people answers on what his plan is" gets written and approved

Psychonauts 2 at 85% off is one of the best bideo game deals you will ever get

The social media accounts for federal law enforcement agencies keep posting the exact kinds of things you'd report to federal law enforcement agencies if a normal citizen posted them.

Trump Is Replacing Billy Long as I.R.S. Commissioner

"'Please enjoy a 70-minute early exit tomorrow. That way you’ll be rested for my 70th birthday Monday!' Long wrote to IRS staff..."

Trump expertly handling US taxes:

"It is unclear who will next lead the IRS, which has had 6 different people in charge this year..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Jim Lovell in a spacesuit in front of a rocket launch pad

Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran, has died.

He was 97 years old.

NASA statement:
www.nasa.gov/news-release...

One more push for this; It’s almost at 100k, this is a very much lovely welcome back to the channel.

They’ve done tests on Michael Phelps and found he produces lower levels of lactic acid than most people, which means his muscles fatigue slower and take longer to ache. A literal biological advantage.

New study: researchers looked at hospital visits after a coal plant was closed near Pittsburgh
--> immediate 20.5% decrease in weekly respiratory emergency dept visits
--> immediate 41.2% decrease in pediatric asthma ED visits
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40691837/

The Enshittification of Generative AI Thanks for subscribing to Where’s Your Ed At Premium, please shoot me an email at ez@betteroffline.com if you ever have any questions. Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-5, a new “flagship” model of some...

Premium Newsletter: The enshittification of AI has begun. With GPT-5, OpenAI has cut access to all other models, reducing the value of even their $200-a-month subscriptions. They join Anthropic in screwing their customers over by making their products worse.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Remember that eyeball-eating infection that got into eyedrops at the factory?

Yeah, that's going to be every day from now on.

“We need a treatment for measles because one doesn’t exist — aside from the perfectly safe peer-reviewed proven vaccine that has kept billions of people safe for the last 62 years.”

Still no word on a treatment for stupidity.

if you cannot win an election over 3 years away against the most loathsome people in the US while they are doing things like *kidnapping the fucking ice cream man off the street in broad daylight* without a ritual sacrifice of at-risk people, you are not the future of humanity. dream bigger, better.

in case anyone wants to check this out, google's still doing it. "Dementia in PhDs" gives this - it even hypothesizes it's due to stress doing your PhD, but it's getting it from the paper linked to which is about PHD (Primary Headache Disorders). As @emilymbender.bsky.social said earlier today Gah!

This is so fascinating and kinda hilarious. Happy friday

They were using several different AIs to check the work of the others to reduce hallucinations, and now chat gpt doesn't allow this anymore and they just have to deal with one. Fuck, they're going to have to think now 😩

before and after of the Oval Office covered in tacky gold

no but this is crazy

Raising a child is nervewracking enough without the knowledge that their teachers might be secretly feeding them YouTube videos about fucking chemtrails

Twitter user simonmaechling: Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines train your immune system to hunt down tumor cells - using your tumor’s own mutations as the target. It’s in clinical trials now. Could be really big if initial results continue to show promise. Twitter user ReversVinc82189: Your immune system is already trained for that quick gaslighting people. Twitter user KrispiLargo2: If that were true we’d never develop cancers. Twitter user ReversVinc82189: Have you reviewed history? Cancers were unheard of. You may consider reviewing history.

Friendly reminder that school administrators tend to take complaints from parents much more seriously than the same complaints from teachers. So if your kids’ school district is using PragerU stuff, please speak up.

Trump: Violent crime in Washington, D.C., is “totally out of control.”
Fox News: “Crime is throwing the nation’s capital into chaos.”
Actual statistic: Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low.
The takeaway: Republicans invent their own reality to scare gullible people and promote a police state.

No AI Was Used on the Last Shot of ‘Together’ Writer/director Michael Shanks explains how they merged Brie and Franco's faces in the last shot, and the frustration of people assuming it was AI.

Well, we're officially at the point where "it's just AI" is being conflated with skilled visual effects work.

"Together" director Michael Shanks'... frustration that audiences now assume that skilled VFX work is just artificial intelligence at work.
www.indiewire.com/features/cra...

Asked why he thought his group was gaining momentum, the head of the Aryan Freedom Network replied: "Our side won the election."

After Endless Layoffs And Chaos, Time Warner Discovery Splits Back Into Two Lesser, Unremarkable Companies

We’ve well documented how the AOL-->AT&T->Warner Brothers->Discovery series of mergers were among some of the most destructive and pointless “business deals” ever conceived by modern man.…

U.S. Defense Secretary promotes interview in which Christian nationalist Doug Wilson says women shouldn't have the right to vote. Hegseth goes to a Wilson-affiliated church and sends his kids to one of Wilson’s schools. 1/2