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BioWare made games for people in an industry that often reduced them to less. I don’t think this business is interested in people anymore

good essay

Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.

In a propaganda rant, former FSB head & paranoid Putin advisor Nikolai Patrushev called Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania "Baltic mice" pulling at a "cat with nuclear claws". Here, kitty kitty.

I desire more in life than to be the “don’t summarise with AI”-guy on bluesky 😅 but reports like this keep coming in, so I’ll repeat ad nauseam, don’t summarise with ‘AI’! www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

This displays the stark arrogance of legacy media types. "I went to the right school and come from the right family, so my opinions MUST matter." That attitude is how you turn the most infamous newspaper in political journalism into a billionaire's vanity blog, and yourself into his PR agent.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

oh, *that's* why this is going around again today

random close-of-weekend thoughts

this is truly excellent and important work

There's a good reason people in positions like this need to choose their words carefully. He's using "no quarter" because he thinks it means "we're being tough," but it's a real term and opponents will take a different meaning This pushes opponents to declare no quarter because we did it first

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

Trump Wins $60 On Kalshi Betting He’ll Bomb Iran

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

The Washington Post opinion section would not have allowed this to run.

the "left" broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"

News from a robust democracy

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When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The newspaper that mainstreamed Chris Rufo, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Charlie Kirk renews its calls to meet fascists halfway:

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

OK, but you do know you're eulogizing Charlie Kirk, right? aftermath.site/charlie-kirk...

Horse race coverage, but the horses are democracy and authoritarianism

Lmao this rules so hard

In other words, fears about "defunding the police" are overblown. What actually happens is ... police defund you.

I made this in 2021

The only misconduct here is on the part of the journals and reviewers using AI to conduct peer review.

When I wrote I am Superman, I asked DC Comics if we could use “the American way” again. They happily let me. We’re all on the same team. Go see the movie. Believe in kindness. We need some good in the world right now & @jamesgunn.bsky.social delivers it. #superman #supermanmovie #nerd #hope

Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity theonion.com/peter-t...

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

The lack of algorithm on Bluesky tells me that we were fools to accept it elsewhere. We all now talk about how Musk uses it to suppress dissent on twitter, but he hardly invented it. Letting someone else set parameters for what you see is maybe the most poisonous thing that social media normalised.