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If only there was a piece of media about people using technological advancement for financial benefit despite the risks to workers

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oh is this just a distraction? is that it? a distraction? for rubes? are you the smartest little birthday boy in the whole applebees? is that it? are you three steps ahead? with your mind chess? in your little birthday boy suit? do you have it all figured out? are you mommy’s special buddy?

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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The trick with lying is creating a lie that seems at least plausible enough that people will be forced to look it up. Something like “the director of the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up also directed Con Air”. Like it sounds wrong but you know people will look it up.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns

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the everything app already exists. it's called fire. it cooks food heats your house cauterizes wounds lights up the darkness destroys vampires dries clothes generates insurance money signals rescuers repels bugs sets the mood preserves meat starts the olympics honors zorgon the all-burning hellgod

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The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

submitted 562 days ago • 3 comments

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

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When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

It is so bonkers that penguins live on No Bears Continent. If I was a bear & I learned about penguins I'd be so pissed. It's like if god decreed that you, specifically, weren't allowed to so much as fucking WITNESS pizza rolls

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Whenever I see "AI ethics concerns" it's always crap like "should Claude have a social security number?!" and not "should OpenAI all be in jail for marketing ChatGPT like it's your friend and designing it to prioritize continuous engagement above all else?"

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

r/ArtificialSentience is a forum dedicated to arguing that chatbots are probably alive in some fashion, which is a fascinating dynamic.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

Medieval story time! Let’s talk about Isabel, who stabbed a priest when he told her to shut up in church (relatable) So Isabel lived in London in 1330.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Do you understand how good it felt to write this episode description

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Eric

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

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 days ago • 61 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 10 days ago • 25 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 102 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 11 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 103 comments

213 Killed In How Do You Pronounce That?

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

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 18 days ago • 22 comments

I think about this post a lot.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

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 15 days ago • 74 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 43 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 27 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Finallye saw Sinners and wow, absolutelye awesome.

submitted 15 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 16 days ago • 84 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

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enough words have been written no more writing

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

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

my loudest “skill issue” ever

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments