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Mild-mannered communications professional by day, mysterious chronicler of vintage horror films by night (horrorincorporated.com). Lifelong Minnesotan, fan of the Twins, Vikings, Saints and Lynx
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Interesting list, gutsy to include “Bandersnatch”

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I literally warned against exactly this in my dissertation and i am very tired of eugenicist fascist authoritarians using all the things we've warned about as a fucking shopping list

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

The expression "skeletons in the closet" comes from when people would murder other people and hide the skeleton in their closet and then if people tried to open the closet they would be all "don't go in there!" because there was a skeleton.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

32 years ago today Kat Bjelland with Babes in Toyland performing at Lollapalooza at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 23, 1993 in Mountain View, California. Photo by Tim Mosenfelder #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #katbjelland #babesintoyland #history #punkrockhistory

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

A guy who can’t speak in complete sentences just launched a stupid and unnecessary war on the Middle East I feel like a kid again

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

“Musk’s First Law of Robotics: a robot must never contradict Catturd, or through inaction, allow Catturd to be contradicted”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

submitted 3 days ago • 638 comments

Glassholes: The Next Generation

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

submitted 5 days ago • 283 comments

The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests. Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

All of this, every bit of it, traces back to the failure of the U.S. government to invest in public education for decades and expecting overworked and underpaid educators to make up the difference.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments