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Discworld QOTD, from Eric

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just perfect that John Roberts' Unitary Executive Theory cashes out with a total vacant ignoramus in the White House. functionally there is no president, outside of tariff-via-Truth Social post bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 10 hours ago • 59 comments

this is fucking appalling, Kennedy is verifiably a crackpot whose beliefs are deadly and whose only interest in science is screaming about the legit science that doesn’t flatter his beliefs and touting pseudoscience that does

submitted 9 hours ago • 25 comments

The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable

submitted 13 hours ago • 59 comments

Hey, the reason Gavin Newsom is doing what Trump wants him to do is because Gavin Newsom agrees with Trump and wants the same things that Trump wants and is on the same side as Trump. Important context

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author

submitted 14 hours ago • 82 comments

213 Killed In How Do You Pronounce That?

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So much of reactionary centrism is the belief that you can be a "polite bigot" and not enable fascism. They want their transphobia, racism, and sexism but hold the authoritarianism. The problem is that authoritarian movements are built on bigotry. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

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The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

I think about this post a lot.

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ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

one of the many things missed by the people who complain about “woke” for a living is that the spread of wokeness is as much of a function of demand as supply

submitted 33 days ago • 124 comments

Incredible email to send to someone whose last video was about how cultural theft is a crime against nature whose every instance should be deemed monstrous and violently ejected from human affairs

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Sinners is exactly like if Coco was a horror movie (complimentary)

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Finallye saw Sinners and wow, absolutelye awesome.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

there is an entire group of people whose response to college students accusing them of being bad people was to work very hard to elect a fascist to tear down all of American society the college students were right about them

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

i asked about this exact scenario last week and i think lawyers told me this book is public domain now

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

my loudest “skill issue” ever

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

use 5calls.org (or the 5 Calls app) to find your reps, their numbers, and a handy script

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

when the government establishes death panels 👎 when the corporation establishes death panels 👍👍👍👍

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 8 days ago • 152 comments

I love this. Screens have become a legit problem in cars. And not just because they're a single point of failure to have access to functions of the vehicle.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

how about we take tens of millions of dollars and fund a bunch of investigative reporters and local news stations across the country without the expectation that they will make a profit

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

It increasingly feels like the decisive moment in tech was when U2 put their new album into everyone's phones in the middle of the night without our consent. This is now the tech model for all: you're getting what we give you - AI in your google search, whatever - whether or not you want it.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The Greatest Spectacle in Racing

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

I basically go into a fugue state when I record the pod. I just listened to a part of Thursday's episode where I say "the medieval Catholic Church was fuckin' shit up for a lot of people for a long, long time" -- a statement which, upon reflection, I've decided to stand by

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

submitted 8 days ago • 36 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

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the “are sex scenes necessary?” discourse is so funny to me. everything is necessary. there is not one little crevice of life that should be spared art’s greedy touch. let alone something as important as sex

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

Not remarked upon enough that the political faction most critical of contemporary art — putatively on the grounds that it devalued traditional skills and craft — has taken the most readily to AI art.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

If Democrats are going to rip themselves apart over 2024 questions, I'd prefer they focus on "how did Harris go from being a few points ahead in the summer to tied to tied on the eve of the election?" rather than "why didn't Democrats realize Biden was old sooner?"

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

one of my favorite things in ANDOR is how good Skellan Skarsgaard's ingratiating smile is when Luthen's entertaining customers. Obviously fake, but fake in a way that is real for somebody in that very specific 'retailer to the rich' role

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

As a former footwear specialist, the idea that your feet just stop changing is false and can lead to a lot of problems if you don't pay attention. I've had to resize customers because they changed activity levels, got a desk job, got pregnant, gained/lost weight, or just bought a house with stairs

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

1. I went to a cheap and shitty local school for my actual art degree so I'd have a BFA, then saved up and took one class at time for a few years at the Academy of Art University in SF (but didn't get a degree there). I also took workshops and online classes. I never took out student loans.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery “It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

No actual writer wants this shit. Please stop forcing it on us.

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Discworld QOTD, from The Color of Magic “Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

*crab-walked

submitted 14 days ago • 408 comments