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think about this the next time you tell dudes not to start podcasts

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

✨My educated and expert take on the TikTok ban ✨ This is some clown shit

submitted 45 days ago • 18 comments

I still think it's funny that Chinese hackers completely comprised 8 major telecoms to spy on everyone and it saw like 1/100th of the hyperventilation reserved for TikTok

submitted 76 days ago • 15 comments

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

submitted 83 days ago • 277 comments

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

submitted 105 days ago • 453 comments

If a bear attacks you, stay calm. Try to see the situation from their point of view

submitted 98 days ago • 87 comments

Godzilla and King Kong are such great ambassadors for their respective cultures, one is like “what if our atomic hubris called forth an agent of our destruction from the very seas that birthed us” and one is like “what if monsters wanted our white women”

submitted 98 days ago • 49 comments

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

submitted 98 days ago • 714 comments

Actually, in France male athletes wear jacquestraps to protect their oui ouis

submitted 98 days ago • 634 comments

history is so back

submitted 116 days ago • 82 comments

I can’t stress how dangerous 20+ years of teaching men STEM without Humanities has been for all of us

submitted 296 days ago • 31 comments

never in a million -- BILLION -- years will you guess where this thread started

submitted 152 days ago • 72 comments

American society has become a hallucinatory bubble, because our knowledge of almost everything is secondhand and delivered through media, and now many of us spend many hours a day hooked into media systems that deliver information only based on what goes viral (mostly by making us mad)

submitted 156 days ago • 3 comments

How long before for the Temple Run live action movie comes out? I’ll wait.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

“Two separate shooters, in possession of semiautomatic weapons, came terrifyingly close to inflicting great harm. But the through line here isn’t former President Trump. The through line isn’t the Secret Service. The through line isn’t heated rhetoric. The through line is, as it always is, the guns”

submitted 170 days ago • 5 comments

Jesus fucking christ finally someone actually tested AI performance before assuming that it would do everything faster and better than a human for cheaper, setting targets accordingly, and letting staff burn themselves out

submitted 183 days ago • 20 comments

Apple’s greatest product isn’t the iPhone or even the Macbook. It’s Slow Horses. Argue all you want but it’s true

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

www.thehandbasket.co/p/tenet-medi...

submitted 180 days ago • 4 comments

scientists are trying to coopt the Orcan Liberation Movement by appealing to opportunist narratives that obscure its revolutionary aims and aspirations. and who stands at the ready to help them promote this narrative? surprise, surprise: the New York Times

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Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right’s appropriation of these ideas: “inverted victimhood” “hijacked victimhood” “imitated victimhood” The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

submitted 202 days ago • 26 comments

I didn’t realize Harris specifically worked at McDonald’s while she was at Howard, meaning she was almost certainly at U Street, she is more dangerous than a Navy SEAL.

submitted 203 days ago • 15 comments

So many great sci-fi stories we could be living in but of course it had to be the very stupidest one arstechnica.com/information-...

submitted 204 days ago • 52 comments

Strongly disagree. This isn’t a danger: it’s what crypto already is

submitted 208 days ago • 62 comments

saying your haters are the "enemies of glory" is one of the sickest things i've ever heard. incredible. iconic

submitted 206 days ago • 54 comments

"I haven't read (or listened) to a book since high school" is not the brag a lot of people seem to think it is.

submitted 221 days ago • 2 comments

Olympic gymnast: completes bafflingly complex tumbling pass Me: Wow, how do they even do this stuff without breaking their necks, the human body is such an amazing piece of biological machinery Commentators: Shame about that, lots of mistakes, gonna be some points deductions

submitted 222 days ago • 14 comments

Hate to say it. France put up a great show. 10/10 opening ceremony.

submitted 222 days ago • 0 comments

It’s weird how the companies seeking to disrupt education keep failing

submitted 224 days ago • 7 comments

Took Palmer two minutes to do what Bellingham couldn’t.

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submitted 240 days ago • 3 comments

Okay fine. I’ll start the conversation: This Euros, a UEFA Golden Spine award for Mbappe and Thuram. 👏👏

submitted 241 days ago • 0 comments

Rewatched A Simple Favor. Somebody please explain it to me like I’m five. Did Stephanie seriously do all that to expose… insurance fraud? What kind of a hater does that? #filmsky

submitted 242 days ago • 0 comments

Yo why didn’t anyone tell me Donald Glover’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith was this good

submitted 244 days ago • 0 comments

Would’ve never guessed I was gonna miss Ash Ketchum like this

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submitted 253 days ago • 30 comments

I never know how to react when a grown person says “it’s all supply and demand.”

submitted 254 days ago • 0 comments