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openAI doesn't want to release 20 million private chatGPT conversations to reporters because they're worried we'll find out 78% of all daily users ask the computer to be their girlfriend
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
openAI doesn't want to release 20 million private chatGPT conversations to reporters because they're worried we'll find out 78% of all daily users ask the computer to be their girlfriend
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
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it makes so much sense when you *also* realize that this is what elon musk sounds like when he talks about literally anything. they both have what scientists call a "money halo"
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
it makes so much sense when you *also* realize that this is what elon musk sounds like when he talks about literally anything. they both have what scientists call a "money halo"
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I'm still very proud of this very dumb patch. topatoco.com/collections/...
Memento Mori, Baby! Patch
Memento Mori, Baby! Patch. Official merchandise from Chris Hastings at TopatoCo!
topatoco.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I'm still very proud of this very dumb patch. topatoco.com/collections/...
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seeing "antisemitism crackdowns" on a list of negatives made me laugh out loud because nobody who means "firing professors who are critical of israel" would call it an antisemitism crackdown
on the other site, a magnificent post of extraordinary proportions
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
seeing "antisemitism crackdowns" on a list of negatives made me laugh out loud because nobody who means "firing professors who are critical of israel" would call it an antisemitism crackdown
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Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
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Can't stop thinking about this quote, from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social.
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Can't stop thinking about this quote, from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social.
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
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Excited for Labour to announce the "Brianna Ghey memorial conversion therapy clinic"
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Excited for Labour to announce the "Brianna Ghey memorial conversion therapy clinic"
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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Fro m kazuki motoyama, a manga artist for a number of super mario manga.
I personally think this is the best image ever, imo
I personally think this is the best image ever, imo
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Fro m kazuki motoyama, a manga artist for a number of super mario manga.
I personally think this is the best image ever, imo
I personally think this is the best image ever, imo
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“Girl In A Football Shirt”, by Alexander Samokhvalov, 1932.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“Girl In A Football Shirt”, by Alexander Samokhvalov, 1932.
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The Luka trade was the exogenous shock that rattled me from my stupor and made me realize almost everyone in power in any field right now is literally, in the clinical sense, addicted to both gambling and attention, and doesn't give a single shit about anyone else. I was clearly not alone here.
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Luka trade was the exogenous shock that rattled me from my stupor and made me realize almost everyone in power in any field right now is literally, in the clinical sense, addicted to both gambling and attention, and doesn't give a single shit about anyone else. I was clearly not alone here.
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Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
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AI being allowed to "drive" your terminal/command line is a fast road to cases of the LLM deleting the users OS after hallucinating a wildly incorrect response to a prompt
why is there AI in my terminal app? seriously, who asked for this?
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
AI being allowed to "drive" your terminal/command line is a fast road to cases of the LLM deleting the users OS after hallucinating a wildly incorrect response to a prompt
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by the by I've said before and I'll say again - I don't agree with the "we need them kids off them screens" values of the boomers. screens are great for a plethora of reasons.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
ps. it is arguable that Brianna would not likely have turned to social media for friendships and transitional support had those things been readily available in her local area.
@charlotte2153.bsky.social you want kids like Brianna off her phone? then give them a better alternative.
@charlotte2153.bsky.social you want kids like Brianna off her phone? then give them a better alternative.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
by the by I've said before and I'll say again - I don't agree with the "we need them kids off them screens" values of the boomers. screens are great for a plethora of reasons.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
I’m really looking forward to @sweetdotdev.bsky.social launching. I’m itching to not buy comics off Bezos sweetshop.app/join/xC4cmw
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’m really looking forward to @sweetdotdev.bsky.social launching. I’m itching to not buy comics off Bezos sweetshop.app/join/xC4cmw
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The artwork of Drac's Night Out by Roger Huyssen used for advertising the #NES game which... never came out! And also the Reebok sneakers for good measure. Removed logos/text, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The artwork of Drac's Night Out by Roger Huyssen used for advertising the #NES game which... never came out! And also the Reebok sneakers for good measure. Removed logos/text, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
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