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Department of Education posting Malfoid art btw. I’m losing my mind man.

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

surveys are so funny man

crazy how Blakeman ads show rising gas prices and blame it on Hochul

oof

Genesis Owusu being used in Apple commercials? I feel like everything I've gotten into has blown up a few months later lately.

it was really good :)

guy at the bar keeps raising his arm to gesticulate and let forth the pit stank

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

There's a Politico (lol) piece entirely about how Republicans' hope right now is that the polls are all way off and they only get a MILD wipeout and first of all it's full of a bunch of nonsense but the best part is how it ends on this incredible bit:

missing corny ”I can’t even draw a stick figure” jokes like she’s my dead wife🤧

AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

>elf makes fun of me because human narrative art takes place over a hilariously short span of time, from the perspective of their long-lived race >i read an elfish book >its just a normal book but every chapter starts with '100 years later'

gonna start referring to my wife as my ex girlfriend for the bit

Manhattan on Saturdays during the fall is w weirdly college-football centric, at least after 1 pm. before that it's mostly Europeans watching soccer.

you're laughing. they put a curse on Ottumwa, Iowa at the council meeting and you're laughing

NYC's World Cup Summer, by the numbers: • Total Economic Impact: $2 billion • Direct visitor spending: $1.2 billion • Operational spending: $162 million • Jobs supported: 12,100

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

From the best thread at the old place, quoted in its entirety here: pleated-jeans.com/2024/10/28/1...

no, he's right

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

are they genuinely glazing him for two pushups?

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

Unironically astronomical odds of getting those 6 letters at the end of that link

Life pro tip: If "adulting" is proving to be too hard, try drinking alcohol during and throughout the day

you can already watch yourself jerk off in VR in fact I'd say that's what most people use it for

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

I fucking hate autumn

Sony argued that "reasonable consumers" already know they don't really own the digital goods they paid for. The Consumer Rights wiki has now made a list collecting more than 30 examples where Sony told customers they do, in fact, own the digital games they paid for. https://bit.ly/4gNi4Ls

it's so funny to me that GFL2's closest thing to a scrimblo is The Singularity posing as a robot attack dog. unless Mayling is the mascot character.

start open source projects, they said you certainly won't run into any extremely specific ethical problems that you will be the only one on earth facing, they said bsky.app/profile/cee....

Reposting this because

I was rather unplugged for like two weeks around labor day and damn it does suck to come back to the world being shit again

It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or something but it's pretty easy to reconstruct from the text.

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.