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incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

I guess the lesson every country the US doesn't like should learn tonight is (as with Libya & North Korea before): Get a nuke Never negotiate No country is a bigger obstacle to world peace than the United States of America.

hearing netanyahu — a war criminal bombing nearby countries in violation of international law, presiding over an apartheid system, and overseeing a genocide in gaza — call iran the “world’s most dangerous regime” is going to make my head explode

we have commodified everything. games, movies, everything. its all formulas and tests and feedback. with its history and art design, marathon should have been a singleplayer shooter, or at least shipped with a singleplayer campaign. but those numbers wouldn't stack up the way executives want.

Unleashing an army of AI chat bots on a deeply lonely and alienated society is so unbelievably sinister. But I believe it's very much by design. Nothing spooks the powerful more than the specter of collective action. So they will do everything in their power to keep us isolated and dependent.

Every time the West wants to start another war, you can tell our media class reeeeeally misses the days when they could just call the targets "filthy savages".

Right now for work, I have to edit a podcast with some AI cheerleaders fantasizing about the soon to come AI singularity making them immortal. And with every second I hear of this idiotic drivel, I come up with more and more elaborate Final Destination chain reactions, I want them to go through.

Honestly would be sick if Iran did a precision strike against Axel Springer.

Trump looking absolutely miserable at his pathetic, ramshackle military parade that plays "Fortunate Son" of all songs, is that rare bit of good news the world really needed right now. Nothing kills fascism faster than ridicule.

this man is realizing what the reaction is going to be when he dies

Doing the Leonardo DiCaprio finger pointing meme for 3 episodes straight

When you read all of these headlines today, you would think it was Iran that started a war with Israel and not the other way around. The lengths that our media will go to, to defend this genocidal apartheid colony, are frankly psychotic.

Great new song from a great new album. youtu.be/V9hcZjSduvE?...

Same thing happened with North Korea back in the day. They only got nuclear weapons after Bush included them in his "axis of evil" and started to make thinly veiled threats, that they would be next after Iraq. Call them "mad men" all you want, but getting nukes is the reasonable choice for them.

Before you cheer for Disney suing AI companies, let's not forget that Disney puts deepfaked facsimiles of dead actors in their movies and signed off on AI Darth Vader in Fortnite. Disney doesn't want to stop AI. They just want to be the ones controlling it.

Corporate media: Why don't people trust us anymore? Also corporate media:

All US media will describe Israel's declaration of war as "preemptive" and Iran's response as "unprovoked."

A perfect pop song RIP Brian Wilson youtu.be/u90beUXTKwo?...

My feeling is that anyone who thinks the protestors are protesting wrong should go down there and demonstrate the correct way to protest in person and see what the various juices pumping through your body tell you what to do when a man dressed in black plastic shoots a gas can into your abdomen

"Protect our borders" against who, exactly? Some guy and his family? Travelers? People escaping oppression? A nice lady? We have homegrown terrorists, murderers, and rapists within our borders already. What is the fear? You're racist. You're just a racist. This is not a real problem

RIP Sly Stone. "Stand!" is my favorite Funk album of all time and "I Want To Take You Higher" my favorite song from it. youtu.be/tQ0PSpHFV_s?...

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Die rechte Regierung Trumps setzt nun das staatseigene Militär gegen diejenigen ein, die sich gegen die menschenverachtenden Razzien der #ICE-Abschiebungsbehörde stellen. Wer sagt uns, dass eine #Aufrüstung Deutschlands in Zeiten des Rechtsruck nicht auch so enden kann?

My god, that IO Interactive Showcase is performance art on the level of that legendary Konami 2010 E3 trashfire. Glad I didn't stay up for this.

Geoff Keighley: the most hyped game of the year from first time Serbian developer HypeHouse is a new take on medieval knight combat with a souls twist. Give it up for Chronos: Undecided.

I don't want to hear any more complaining about that State of Play after this fucking snorefest.

Surprised it took that long. Two massive, yet deeply insecure egos cannot exist in the same place forever.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Die einen schreiben die gleichen Kolumnen, wie sie sie schon seit mehr als 19 Monaten schreiben, und die anderen schreiben Kolumnen, die ihre seit mehr als 19 Monaten geschriebenen Kolumnen rechtfertigen sollen

Despite liking (if not loving), the first season, I held off on season 2 of "The Last Of Us", since I already disliked the game it is based on. I had hoped the adaptation might fix some of its problems, but from what I hear, I can save myself 7 hours of disappointment.