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Covid killed millions of people worldwide and the damage that it did to societal cohesion and democratic governance may still have eclipsed the physical damage

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

politics is the closest any of these guys get to what they really want, which is to go up on stage every night, put on a show, and have a huge crowd of people cheer for them it’s why Trump has always had dramatically more fun campaigning than governing

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

This is the funniest movie production fact I’ve ever read

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Texas please, please call! (And everyone else, please share!)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

submitted 8 days ago • 325 comments

"johnston could i get the earnings report?" "it's looking good sir" "excellent. and what about the yearnings report?" "i miss my wife sir"

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

the onion has always been a leader of brave truth telling in news media

submitted 11 days ago • 98 comments

In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

Tim Cook gave Trump a million dollars to stop this from happening and I for one am shocked that such a moronic fucking decision somehow backfired

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

If anyone outside the US wonders what it's like over here, last night I had a nightmare about being repeatedly stabbed and genuinely felt worse when I woke up and mentally shifted from being murdered to being alive in 2025 America

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

submitted 11 days ago • 534 comments

maybe if the tech nerds had ever had a humanities class they'd understand that the way people interact with technology in Star Trek (speaking with computers, hand motions in the air,) are largely because those are ways to tell a story to viewers and/or look neato, not because they're actually useful

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

The Trump administration will come as close as possible to saying “we are going to kill you” and people are like don’t be ridiculous. Killing is illegal

submitted 11 days ago • 41 comments

Meanwhile, 1000 IP addresses from OpenAI just tried to slurp content from my site without permission. Their model is theft. Period.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

“Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Love to try and destroy, uh, the university system the value of the dollar the scientific research enterprise the weather forecasting system the safety of air travel the drinkable water the consumer protections against fraud the healthcare for vulnerable minorities within five months

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

No one voted for this shit, and the information environment is so broken that most people don't know it's happening & probably won't know it happened afterward, and if they do find out, won't know who's responsible.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

If Harvard was really about that life, they'd announce a freeze on legacy admissions until international students were permitted again. See how fast the fascists blink.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

you'd think that "the man we are giving complete and total power to on every other subject cannot be trusted not to immediately cause a depression if we give him this power over this one last thing" might prompt some introspection, but no

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

submitted 12 days ago • 101 comments

The big mistake was letting them get away with calling it artificial intelligence in the first place

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

Crypto isn't currency. It isn't even an asset. It is a financial virus designed to privatize money, let corporations run chit-based company stores, and cut nations & central banks off from their own money supply. Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

"There's no good art anymore" is such an upside down looney tunes ass opinion when we're surrounded by people making amazing shit all the time on here. There's no good art? Get better at searching. Good lord.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

submitted 13 days ago • 403 comments

Update: Despite widespread reports of Musk “stepping back” from politics, he is still standing near enough by that the President runs US foreign policy in the insane way Musk wants it run and waves at him while doing so.

submitted 13 days ago • 141 comments

they're killing people and making everyone sicker for no reason at all vile stuff

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 14 days ago • 351 comments

the scary thing here is not “the AI is replacing creativity” (it obviously is not, this is an old dad joke) the scary thing is the fraud “the person verifying your info can’t tell the fake video isn’t you” is going to be A Problem

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

The combination of fascism with respect to migrants, minorities, political opponents, and policing, and personalist patrimonialism with respect to everything else, is on display in two NJ cases: Prosecute Rep. McIver for protesting at a migrant detention center; make felon C Kushner an ambassador. 1

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This is my favorite kind of AI take: phrased as a dunk but immediately grants the central complaint that most people are actually making about LLMs, which is that they do not and cannot do the thing they’re widely marketed to do

submitted 14 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

multiple levels of bullshit here supreme court justices should not profit off their position this way and also we shouldn’t have let basically the entire book industry consolidate under penguin random house

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

reminder: the push for charter schools was a push for re-segregated education

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

VF asked @bencollins.bsky.social if Trump was funny, and he had the best response: "…when people say he’s funny, it’s usually him being cruel to somebody." also, subscribe to @theonion.com so he can keep doing cool shit www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Ow theonion.com/ow/

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

Hi, I'm in charge of the economy and also a big fan of the fifth-ranked Large Language Model chatbot, whose claim to fame is that it is more racist than the other chatbots

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments

It is impossible to overstate how dangerous it is to give any admin the power to unilaterally revoke nonprofit status for organizations engaged in disfavored activism.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I know people are tired, but everybody needs to call their congressional reps (of any party) and ask them to vote no on the "big beautiful bill."

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

tbc i don’t object to dems going “nah he shouldn’t have run” and blacklisting a lot of his people who suck but doing flagellant shit for the punditocracy is pointless imo

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments