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NYU ITP ‘24 • writer and creative technologist at large • totally sincere hater • he/him •
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re: wanting more media that actually deals in nostalgia/critiques of pop culture beyond the 80s–that's why I love Hypnospace and am so excited that Dreamsettler will be set around 2005 store.steampowered.com/app/1931040/...

remember when ellie last of us covered take on me, a song that canonically came out way WAY before she was born? lol

20 years ago I was like "why is this Breaking Benjamin song in Halo 2" and now I'd be all fucking worked up and intrigued if there was a big game that went all in for '00s nu metal instead of more fucking Pet Shop Boys and New Order needle drops

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

we badly need to update the pop culture music library to include pop music from when i was a kid. the new Naughty Dog game should be about a space warrior who listens to Sean Paul, not 80s shit

downloading avowed. s2g if this doesn't fix my depression today i'm gonna... i dunno, continue to laze around about it

stupid beyond measure

making everybody send emails explaining their jobs to a guy whose frontal lobe has been completely plastered with ket worked so well for X the Everything App, so

If Luigi walks because of David Zaslav and Eric Adams I will laugh so hard I will probably have a stroke and die.

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

I literally reported this Wednesday.

fuck you, substack. so glad i stopped my newsletter rather than carry on there. please get off of that site. there are options. do not support fascist cowards like this read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

7 years later, still a heater www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyG...

update: caught the block

Modern Lenny

that BS about meta making a "breakthrough" in mind-reading tech using AI (machine learning, not an LLM 🙃) is absolutely not worth freaking out about. the study needed people to sit still in a giant machine in a magnetically shielded room. the existence of a corporate post about it is PR pablum

it was true under trump 1 and even biden, the past decade has sucked ass, anyone who says fascism is good for art are full of shit, artists don't need to starve either

a guy who who's an apologist for walter white in breaking bad but not like, in the psycho misogynist skylar-hating camp but instead because walt "had good taste in music and flynn should've trusted him on that"

happy friday, everyone. rotating dagwood

*porcaro, sorry. "jeff porcarco" is a name I'm saving for a Twisted Metal-style car combat game where all the music is extremely smooth

countdown until i catch the block

hating elon so much they're willing to spend a small fortune in eggs

Pete Alonso got one. They embraced. "Bread friend," Alonso said. "Bread Pete." "That's right," Stanek said. "That's right, bud. Bread Pete." "Pete Pete," Alonso replied. "Pete Bread."

ELON: (replying to picture comparing 90s Lara Croft’s breasts to current day Lara Croft’s breasts posted by account called Western_Gaming) Woke must be stopped. GRIMES: Elon please call me back. Your sickly child Morty Mechahitler got cut in half looking at a photo of a Cybertruck.

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

i have my ups and downs on severance but out of a generally great cast adam scott is doing some fucking excellent work, shades of how i felt watching odenkirk in the first few seasons of better call saul

if the money that would go to fiber optic internet all gets directed to satellites with shitty connections that inevitably end up burning up in atmosphere a few years later i am going to become Da Super Joker

next time he wants to schedule an interview about AI or the metaverse with The Verge or some such outlet, it'd be journalistic malpractice not to hit him with questions about this bullshit

The IQ Paradox, identified by renowned poster the Mountain Goats, states that doofuses who actually take IQ seriously and use it as a metric of anything are dumb as Hell

look at those fucking losers on the right. go home and be a family man

lol if steve bannon gets railroaded for doing the salute if only because he looks more like a fetid sack of diseases piloting a human skeleton

at bare minimum none of these guys should be able to show their faces in public (no, psycho conferences don't count, whatever) without facing a chorus of boos. preferably even some long fart noises

Join me in manifesting this historical event 🧠 🧘🏻‍♂️

don't give a fuck what neera tanden says or does and neither should you. who cares what quotes she gives to fuckin semafor the only metric by which she matters is that any organization that would have her is one that no one should look to for any kind of intelligent leadership in this moment

first time in a while where a game trailer made me this intrigued