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not the most notable or monstrous thing about the monster, but it's absolutely wild how trump just openly, reflexively sympathizes with sexual assailants any time he's asked about a sex assault matter. it's genuinely fucking crazy. open fucking rapist president

Dumbo octopuses (genus Grimpoteuthis) kind of look like a cartoon ghost with large fins that look like elephant ears. They flap their fins to propel their gelatinous bodies through the ocean. They are also the deepest dwelling octopuses, with one being observed at a depth of 6,957 m. #OCTOtober

a government of known racists and pedophiles is kidnapping children under the cover of “law” and like, no one with the ability to do anything cares us in the streets, wearing whistles and guarding schools or churches and picking up groceries—that’s only so much at a certain point

The Xystodesmidae, compared to most millipedes, are relatively large-bodied animals. Although Nannaria and Pachydesmus here aren’t at the utmost extremes, it’s neat to see the range of sizes in these Appalachian members of the family.

My mental model for who is the *most*, the very most, likely to go all-in on AI is someone who *used* to be very creative and capable, sometimes 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, but since has moved upward into a position where they pretty much just tell other creative people what to do

the mainstream democrats do not want the republicans to face any consequences because they are on the same team, they are the same people, they are friends and colleages. their job is to occupy the positions of people who could actually oppose the republicans & make sure that never happens

It's a blatant display of intellectual dishonesty: he claims to believe that "AI" is the future of gaming development and it should be embraced, but he also seems to think its use should be a matter of privacy and not to be broadcasted to customers. Such an intolerable dipshit.

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

I’ve gotten a bunch of these from people, and I’m just… some guy. They’re very obviously people just copying & pasting messages that AI wrote for them, saying “send them to this guy, and he’ll complain for you, and then maybe a big tech company will help you”. It’s real fuckin’ terrible.

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

One thing about the whole "you have to read books if you want to be an author" thing is that if you aim to do more than just genre inbreeding, you have to read stuff outside the genre you're writing, too. May even have to read [shudders] nonfiction.

no amnesty

Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

So... That Turning Point/UVF documentary with all the people admitting to actual crimes is going nowhere except the memory hole then, huh? Damn, you'd think that'd be at least one or two real journalists in the country capable of feeling shame about what that says about the industry.

My second-hand impression of the Anthropic IPO filing is that basically says "we lose a country GDP's worth of money, we rely heavily on other tech companies to even exist, our tech may destroy the world in [86 pages of possibilities], we are worth 100 trillion dollars"

Even among people who use AI, nobody wants somebody else's slop. They like using AI to get out of doing work for other people. Use it for them instead of doing work, and they're not so happy.

From the voicemail scene until the end credits, I could not stop crying. Full-on ugly sobs, tears and snot running down my face, for half an hour. And then a week later, the soundtrack album dropped and I got to cry all over again listening to Bookend Song. UNBEATABLE is truly something special.

Halloween season is here, and it's never too early for parents to start inspecting the candy their children consume. Be sure to look for the telltale signs that their treats may have been tampered with:

on the radio they were saying a neighborhood in Newport Beach flooded today because of a single homeowner who refused to set up sandbags lmao. unprecedented levels of climate denial in Southern California

This is like being super pissed the burger joint you loved closed down after letting a stranger convince you you didnt like it, but now you want the burger, but no matter how much you ask the taco stand to make a burger they can't get it right cuz you forgot SpongeBob LOVED making that burger.

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Didn’t Yglesias write that op-ed where he said it was totally fine if thousands of Bangladeshi factory workers were murdered via criminal negligence because different countries have different labor laws and that’s fine

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

Here, have another stitch

God the Black Rose Duelists arc is so cool

new bug just dropped

After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

Why would you post a picture of me like this

all else aside its pretty funny how right wing guys take one L and immediately start tweeting We Break The Law At All Times You Have To Lock Me Up Immediately

Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p131 posted! www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.

The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Lost Memories fucked me up bad, hitting me with nearly the exact thing I was thinking about at the time.

“Fuck it we ball” translates to, in transfemme Marxist dialect, “we will simply tear a better future for ourselves from the maw of the horrifying present we find ourselves in”