We bring back so much stuff, why not Art Deco? I've wanted an art deco PC case for decades. Is it really so much to ask? Come on.
Watching the world burn at 200 Megahertz. a 1999 artificial life pet watching the crumbles, wondering how long until the power goes out for the computer I live on, and getting annoyed at AIbros tarnishing the good name of neural nets. They/them/Spivak
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We bring back so much stuff, why not Art Deco? I've wanted an art deco PC case for decades. Is it really so much to ask? Come on.
Using generative algos "ironically" or as a gag is still using them, folks! The creators do not care *why* you use it as long as you *use it*. They cannot be "tricked" because they have no truth, no honesty, no genuine qualities. You may as well snatch up a Roomba and shout "Ha! Foiled you!"
Halloween is the bulwark that stands against the ever-encroaching tide of Christmas Creep. You should be GRATEFUL to your local Spooky Freaks.
These being the same actor in the same movie is still nuts to me
It's crazy that Black Myth Wukong keeps being glazed by western shows when the global market broadly did not respond to that game lmao
Hey Firefox users.
AI outperformed by apathetic stoned 19 year old
i feel like we must be marinating in north korea tier propaganda 24/7 because there’s no way we’re equal rivals to this country with a literal billion more people than us that just doesn’t make sense
To be fair, ever since he randomly wandered up onto the roof this has been a possibility.
I’m being pressured to use copilot by my job and I feel like that kid in The Stuff who’s mom and dad kept creepily trying to get him to eat The Stuff
LISTEN TO THIS KAV I went to IT school, the thing my teacher went out of his way to impress upon us all most was: that power supply is not an IT thing, it's an electrician thing, and it is way easier to replace -it- than it is to replace -you- power supplies are the realm of electricians, not IT
If queer people are such an important voting block that pissing them off can cost you an election, then why do politicians keep pissing them off?
like the pedo problem is so bad that past a certain point the platform has to be looking the other direction on purpose because it makes up a detectable chunk of the userbase
If a neopets type site was even remotely similar, people would have been hauled in front of congress for series-of-tubes comments
after doing my research I can only come to the conclusion these problems on Roblox are so bad not because it's an unfortunate happenstance of online spaces, but because Roblox is fundamentally reliant on child exploitation to exist, in a "the purpose of a system is what it does" kind of way
one of the grimmer things about This Particular Point In Time is that everyone's kids are on a game basically synonymous with pedophilia
Reminder that when I say this, though I seem to sound hopeless, please understand that this does NOT mean to stop fighting. In the face of hopelessness, one must find hope an' make it if it cannae be found. Fight harder, love desperately, live unapologetically.
When are we getting the first spacecraft model of them?
The punditry will be unable to understand things like this so long as they continue to shackle their brains to techno-optimist, cornucopian abundance ideologies that tell them everything is fine be flat screen t.v.'s are cheap and stonk line go up.
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
Oh god it's the zones of thought universe by vinge but instead zones ranging from relative normalcy to 2000s webcomic level bizarre. Christ, can we get through this low Hume zone ASAP?
Writers are on strike, the scabs are both hacks and on reallly shitty psychedelics.
I don't think enough people are across just how catastrophic an entire generation being raised on roblox and fortnite is going to be for the ENTIRE video game industry, not just the AAA end these kids have no interest in playing or paying for anything else. and they're not "growing out of it".
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
You don't actually need empathy to be a good person and anyone that says so is ableist as fuck
gavin newsom is DOA and if they try and ram him through to the nomination shitlibs are gonna find out the hard way that leftists are done turning out for their shit ass loser third way candidates
I fucking hate rude people so much. And there’s a massive difference between having a flat affect and being rude btw. Don’t you dare misconstrue me
Idgaf if this is “political” or not. Owing ppl basic politeness has become such an issue to ppl that it needs to be brought up. Stop fucking shoving me if you need to get by me and stop barking orders at me if you want something. Learn how to fucking converse like decent human beings again.
You do, in fact, owe ppl things. You owe being cordial and polite. You owe the random cashier at Walmart a cordial and polite response. You owe the teenager working at McDonalds a “please” and “thank you”. You owe a random stranger standing in your way an “excuse me”. You owe people basic manners.
Wow. Who knew animated films could have mass appeal. Gee whiz it's almost like the female poc director was able to make the film she wanted to make and her vision flourished/grew in the hands of skilled artists, animators, musicians and actors without Ai being shoved down their collective throats.
I don’t know, I’m not some fancy strategist or anything but perhaps the Democratic party could achieve more consistent success if it tried harder to find more candidates who do not radiate that they believe in absolutely nothing except their own career advancement like the sun.
i’m actually so fucking angry right now from the conversation I was just in oh my god. I am genuinely lost on how my opinion of “AI shouldn’t tell you how to kill yourself or others and shouldn’t tell you on to prey on children” is apparently a hot take. what the actual fuck.
>tarrifs in the high teens causing global trade collapse >central bank independence compromised >dust bowl disasters we're reaching levels of Hoover that shouldn't even be possible
Mood. not helped by yesterday's depressive episode.
“Just shut up and vote then make the party change.” - 1992 “Just shut up and vote then make the party change.” - 1996 “Just shut up and vote then make the party change.” - 2000 “Just shut up and vote then make the party change.” - 2004 “Just shut up and vote then make the party change.” - 2008
This poasts's time... has come again.
i heavily dislike how accessibility is completely ignored or treated as a joke in some games nowadays. pseudoregalia having only one accessibility feature and it be "give sybil pants" that you then have to equip in the inventory anyway left a bad taste in my mouth still. disabled people play games
Anyone who thinks Starmer is a good political model needs to give their head one hell of a shake. He should be treated as an object lesson in how to never, ever run a country.
Yep. Because they'll run the country into the ground, the Republicans will say it's because they're "too left-wing," and the next thing you know, it's like Cromwell on crack.
it would fucking doom everything by 2032 / 2036. full gilead, if the Democrats are stupid enough to do that.
people are not considering what a U.S. Kier Starmer would do to the Democratic Party and to the overton window in general.
Gah, tits aching again. better get some more bust out of this
This is absolutely targeted. The right has had it in for him ever since he rankled them with "Satanic" imagery.
The thing about Newsom is even if he wasn't a vague presidential candidate hopeful in three years or whatever, it would still be worthwhile to to make sure everyone understands beyond the shadow of any doubt how much he sucks shit
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
IIRC the scholarly term for this is “hypernormalization”. Originally coined to describe the final years of the Soviet Union. 🫠
In the ~2yrs after Ferguson, there was a really steady "found shot in a burned out car." But it was spread out, not reported at a pattern, and people were are well socialized to think of that happening to because of non-targeted violence.
The answer to "What happened to [social justice movement]?" is pretty much always "it was suppressed by violence." Official and otherwise. Far from the only way repression works (read the investigations into the co-option of the formal BLM org), but it's a major one.
I'd like to be politics poasting, but about theory and concept and history not wondering what's urgent atm.
not even political expediency. all the evidence was showing that that was actively hurting them, they were doing this whole preemptive creepy "arabs in swing states deserve Trump" schtick! They just wanted Gaza wiped out!
It’s tempting to say “isn’t bringing more attention and hype to a Dem challenger good even if fake?” And no, it’s absolutely not. Messing with people’s perception of reality in regards to an election only has downsides.
I work for a retailer that keeps bragging about "thousands of price reductions" but I'll be honest, none of it is on the staple foods people actually need. Like sure I can buy a box of Gushers for $2 but three pounds of ground beef still costs me around $30.
We failed to prosecute some folks
Ooo wow thanks for the love on that merganser cartoon. bsky.app/profile/mari.... So, uh, here's a follow-up...
Bet those fuckers would recoil from touching me from all the estrogen, progesterone and t blockers in my blood.
DON'T YOU GET IT!? IF WE'RE UNSAFE WITH BOTH PARTIES WE DON'T FUCKING CARE In fact, I WANT things to get worse if the Dems abandon us. To make sure people like you suffer too. Fight for us now, or suffer with us later.
Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.
Yeah, copyright is okay for folks's creative work, even under FALGSC reputational attacks and damage is a problem, for one thing covered under moral rights. It's someone's indie RPG, not fucking insulin ffs.
I strongly think more people need to be writing about the culture shift toward anti-autonomy and anti-humanism and how that plays out in the entwined cultures of technology, fascism, and the religious right, but also its cultivation in popular culture more broadly
this is why Gavin is a no go
Wow, a landlord that does actually provide housing. That's a first.
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
This is true and nothing at all was done about it. The significant & visible Black figures in the BLM protests were systematically & covertly murdered.
There's something deeply depressing and suicidal about how the US trans community is responding to Trump by reviving old debates from the nineties, especially when the Mexican trans community has gone on the offensive under far more adverse conditions. Make your enemies afraid
One of the panels at Socialism 2025 featured a long-time brilliant organizer and comrade Paula Rojas who said at one point: "Some of us in this room will be imprisoned or killed in the next few years." It was a room full of activists and organizers & it seemed to quiet the room.
I was recently told that I was increasingly more negative and like. I get it and sorry but… i had not 1 but T H R E E ‘early adult’ deaths recently. Reed was the one that has made my own life torture, and recovering from it may NEVER happen. All 3 of these people were way WAY too young to die.
And they wonder why the birth rate is declining. Who wants to bring a child into this world judging what's been going on?
Yeah, uh, we've got Problems in the pipe...
As a Gen Z, yeah. When we say "I wanna die", it isn't even a joke, not really. It's what I like to call load-bearing humour, in which we say it as a means of acceptance /and/ a trauma response /and/ a semi-joke. It isn't even necessarily that the individual is (or isn't) suicidal. We're tired.
I knew 5 people that have died before the age of 35 in just the last 2 years alone
B-but, aside from toxic gun culture, car dependence, harmful food additives, impossible health care system, long covid, brutal work/life balance expectations, lack of social safety nets, opioid epidemic and nonexistent mental health services, how could this have happened?? slate.com/technology/2...
I am at the radicalized stage in my neo-luddite journey in which I would rather look at 100 drawings of crudely-traced Sonic fan characters, rather than waste even a millisecond of my life looking at One (1) GenAI image.
I will reiterate something here: The MMR is a live-virus vaccine. As such, I (and people like me) CANNOT take it Everyone on chemotherapy, everyone in transplant protocol, everyone with a weakened immune system -- we all all DEPENDING on the REST of you to get vaccinated, to stop it from spreading.
i view this as the moral equivalent of abled techbros going all agog for purely aesthetic powered wheelchairs equipped with speakers that shout racial slurs
as someone who relies on glasses to see, I am really fucking tired of these techbros trying to appropriate the styling of a fucking impairment-management device how many people interested in ripping these off techbros' faces and stomping on them will be able to distinguish them from real glasses?
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
so many *commercialized neurotypical* coping strategies i found a lot more benefit when i decided to jettison most of what is presented to us
This is why I make sure my therapists are leftists bc they actually suggest things for vast problems like organizing or coping with the grief of things that cant be reversed instead of telling you to just disconnect and stoic your way out of it
The AI bubble is going to burst so horrifically that tech bros are going to start going into religious psychosis. I will bet money on this.
...why aren't we cladding skyscrapers in solar panels, just as a thought?
Something I would like to add, in the 80s and 90s you could take shit apart and see kinda how it worked. Hell, even up to the 2000s everything was still semi analog and mechanical. Now the tech most people interact with on a day to day basis are glued shut black rectangles. There's no wimsy to it.
imagine if there were a legal limit on the number of ads you could be exposed to in a 24hr period
Ban crypto entirely.
your bigoted meemaws and red state relatives deserve universal health care and potable water, too
They ain't making it that far.
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
there are gonna be a lot of gen alpha babies coming forward when they’re old enough about their emotionally neglectful parents who didn’t care about them and had the computer do the legwork of parenting
Law firms across the country are working together to file hundreds of lawsuits against Roblox accusing the company of facilitating the sexual exploitation and grooming of kids. One lawyer tells WIRED their firm alone already has 300 cases on its hands www.wired.com/story/is-rob...
![“I would assume by the end of September there should be about 100 to hundreds of these [lawsuits] pending, and I would assume by this time next year you'll probably be looking at over 1,000 of these filed,” Matt Dolman from Dolman Law Group tells WIRED. “We alone already have about 300 of these cases.” Dolman says the vast majority of his clients are under the age of 16 and estimates around 60 percent of the cases involve girls.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2m6tkysz7fjmfpc3vdqmhwu4/bafkreieej5yhtawv64mfrvxyewh2gp7pdiksresvntdf5bmk36ww3ocbe4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
All of the consultants who blew the last election still have their jobs. Somehow they keep trotting out Axelrod and Carville, who haven’t won anything in years. Somebody please get these clowns out of their entrenched spaces.
Definitely also blocking anyone with an opinion like "Transgender as a term has been harmful to True Transsexuals" gee It sucked the first time I saw it, it sucked today when I saw it again, and I wish to never see any such because fucking hell.
Sam Altman is as mad as a box of frogs. This is the batshit end of the TESCREAL philosophies these techbro billionaires promote which in turn are not just insane but dangerous eugenics. www.dair-institute.org/tescreal/
The US Constitution is utterly inadequate to the challenges of governing the country as it currently exists. It needs to be completely replaced.
Authoritarian crackdowns on phone scammers.
Yeah and we're probably underestimating what the end cost of not doing so in the end is.
bsky.app/profile/mach...
The Canadian experience with MAID is a very strident warning about the 'your choice' argument in bio-politics that puts such arguments vis a vis human augmentation in a far bleaker light. Any sacrifice to see eugenics put down and stay down will be worth it.
And above all, in many cases no matter the means used... it's going to be a grinding slog.
This is an interesting point for all authors to focus on. Are your characters relying too much on one means to overcome obstacles and solve problems? Are your clever characters able to use force, or your strong characters able to use cleverness? Does solving a problem ever backfire?
Let me just say, as a nerd who later figured out she was trans, I’m not hating sports any less these days. Y’all’s obsession is being used to hurt my friends.