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OMG I FIGURED IT OUT UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY? STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU

submitted 8 days ago • 441 comments

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

Ridiculous. Wow!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

While most Americans oppose making Canada the 51st state, a majority of Joe Rogan listeners favor it, saying they would like to live in the same country as their girlfriends.

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

"Are the doors that open at the supermarket automatically being activated and pushed open by tiny, invisible gnomes? Many tech experts I talked to say 'no, they usually just use motion sensors, you incredible dumbass'. But I was intrigued."

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

“i’ve always been an ignorant piece of shit my entire life guys”

submitted 18 days ago • 1497 comments

We have an age minimum for senators, congresspeople, and presidents—which means we also need to have an age maximum. A floor and a cap.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

If Hegseth resigns and we get an Acting Secretary of Defense, it'll be the eighth time we've had one. One came under Nixon, a second under GHW Bush. And then we had *five* under Trump.

submitted 19 days ago • 93 comments

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

submitted 20 days ago • 450 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

submitted 31 days ago • 186 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 31 days ago • 3183 comments

Moskowitz: When President Zelenskyy came to the White House, we heard a lot about what he was wearing. Oh my God, the precious Oval Office—he didn’t wear a suit! I mean, here’s a picture of Kid Rock in the Oval Office—he looks like he’s about to jump over 10 buses on the White House lawn.

submitted 32 days ago • 912 comments

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

submitted 32 days ago • 117 comments

the bizarre thing is that the markets are panicking now even though this is exactly what trump said he'd do. people just didn't believe him. if we'd had a 5 month media freakout like this before the election, hey, maybe we could have avoided this.

submitted 37 days ago • 25 comments

NFT are dead because none of you actually bought or tried to use them. LEARN FROM THAT.

submitted 38 days ago • 32 comments

I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.

submitted 46 days ago • 176 comments

The Trump administration feels like it's full of people who loved Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS but didn't realize he was mocking the shit out of the dumb spiteful fascist characters.

submitted 45 days ago • 31 comments