Avocado Aficionado
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I wish cancel culture was real because I’m tired of being reminded of the fact that Louis CK exists.
Also, you gotta love how we’ve reached that point where mainstream publications are praising sex pests to appease the Nazis.
Also, you gotta love how we’ve reached that point where mainstream publications are praising sex pests to appease the Nazis.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I wish cancel culture was real because I’m tired of being reminded of the fact that Louis CK exists.
Also, you gotta love how we’ve reached that point where mainstream publications are praising sex pests to appease the Nazis.
Also, you gotta love how we’ve reached that point where mainstream publications are praising sex pests to appease the Nazis.
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It's time for #ADVENTICONS once again! And for Day 1 - and ahead of #TRANSFORMERS EARTHSPARK'S finales arriving this Friday - Twas the NIGHTSHADE before Christmas!
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It's time for #ADVENTICONS once again! And for Day 1 - and ahead of #TRANSFORMERS EARTHSPARK'S finales arriving this Friday - Twas the NIGHTSHADE before Christmas!
This website rules.
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This website rules.
Amazon has more money than they know what to do with, they could have easily commissioned an English dub for Banana Fish. But instead they decided to use AI because it's "cheaper."
Fuck this company.
Fuck this company.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Amazon has more money than they know what to do with, they could have easily commissioned an English dub for Banana Fish. But instead they decided to use AI because it's "cheaper."
Fuck this company.
Fuck this company.
Holy crap, it’s Jerry “Fireball” Mudflap from the critically acclaimed Fireball and Mudflap.
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Holy crap, it’s Jerry “Fireball” Mudflap from the critically acclaimed Fireball and Mudflap.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
And look, I’ll be brutally honest, there are plenty of English dubs that came out in recent years that I thought were godawful or mediocre. But you know what? At least those dubs were made by actual human beings instead of a soulless plagiarism machine.
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
And look, I’ll be brutally honest, there are plenty of English dubs that came out in recent years that I thought were godawful or mediocre. But you know what? At least those dubs were made by actual human beings instead of a soulless plagiarism machine.
“Sure, Amazon’s AI dubs are awful. But at least they’re not woke.” - Every reactionary YouTuber.
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“Sure, Amazon’s AI dubs are awful. But at least they’re not woke.” - Every reactionary YouTuber.
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INSPIRING: do you have a gambling problem and read the news? this man figured out a way to take advantage of you, and he doesn't even have a college degree
Shayne Coplan dropped out of college his freshman year. When COVID hit, he started building Polymarket, an online prediction market. cbsn.ws/4ooJSGk
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
INSPIRING: do you have a gambling problem and read the news? this man figured out a way to take advantage of you, and he doesn't even have a college degree
"Ask Grok to explain this post."
November 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Ask Grok to explain this post."
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
My favorite TF2 weapon.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
My favorite TF2 weapon.
“We’ll just use AI to dub this anime. The folks who watch English dubs won’t notice.”
Narrator: But people did notice and they were rightfully mad.
Narrator: But people did notice and they were rightfully mad.
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“We’ll just use AI to dub this anime. The folks who watch English dubs won’t notice.”
Narrator: But people did notice and they were rightfully mad.
Narrator: But people did notice and they were rightfully mad.
“If Rumble is blue and Frenzy is red, then how do you explain this? Huh?! Huh?!” - Some guy on a Transformers forum in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“If Rumble is blue and Frenzy is red, then how do you explain this? Huh?! Huh?!” - Some guy on a Transformers forum in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
Hard to believe the waffles discourse happened this year. It honestly feels like forever ago.
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Hard to believe the waffles discourse happened this year. It honestly feels like forever ago.
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The thing about CrunchyRoll’s enshittification is that normally I’m a big proponent of supporting official channels but if the money from subscriptions isn’t being used to pay talent and labour and the quality suffers as a result, then morally what’s the purpose of supporting those official means?
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The thing about CrunchyRoll’s enshittification is that normally I’m a big proponent of supporting official channels but if the money from subscriptions isn’t being used to pay talent and labour and the quality suffers as a result, then morally what’s the purpose of supporting those official means?
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
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Weren’t they already doing this? Or are they just looking for a different group of brown folks to get mad at?
Republicans are now negative double digits on immigration.
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/r...
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/r...
Republicans seek severe immigration crackdown over D.C. shooting: "Deport them all. Now."
"We must IMMEDIATELY BAN all ISLAM immigrants and DEPORT every single Islamist," said one Republican senator.
www.axios.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Weren’t they already doing this? Or are they just looking for a different group of brown folks to get mad at?
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November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM