Comrade Dirigible

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

BuzzFeed dying after chasing profits into a sinkhole vs. Gawker getting killed for challenging entrenched power is the perfect conclusion to the 2010s content philosophy wars.

Defragmenting Drive C

Henry Raeburn, The Skating Minister (c. 1795)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

George Galloway: “I have been assailed all day by a “children’s book community” so vile and vicious I’m amazed they even let them near kids #redmolucca”. He was retweeted five times. An account named @winnie_the_pooh, not believed to be connected either to the Disney corporation or the estate of A A Milne, responded with one word: “Tosser.” and was RTed 213 times by the time this well-worn screenshot was taken, perhaps more afterwards

Well, if it’s 14 March, that can only mean... naturally: the ninth anniversary of one of the finest exchanges from The Old Place

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and back with some partial view of the sides. At the bottom is an eBL watermark showing that the tablet is about 5 inches wide. (eBL stands for electronic Babylonian Library)

tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī
arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī

"Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me
A new moon will appear, my sun will shine."

A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.

A perfect romantic afternoon at the movies. ROMAN HOLIDAY returns to the PCC Fri 20th March at midday and it’s been far too long since we last screened it.

🎟️: buff.ly/DCCeJnj

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Angela Lansbury in the original Broadway, production of Jerry Herman‘s Dear World. New York, 1969.

BE A MRIDER

Insult Bloat IN THE '90s, IF SOMEONE FROM "THE LEFT" TRIED TO USE INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE, THEY WERE MOCKED AS "POLITICALLY CORRECT." ‘90s person: WE LIVE IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Man in bowtie: PC! THE TERM EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH "THE LEFT." Man: I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE. Right winger: PC! WOKE! ENEMY WITHIN! THEN MANY IDEAS THAT HAD BEEN WIDELY ACCEPTED AS BASIC VALUES BECAME DEFINED AS "LEFT WING" AND THEREFORE "PC." Hegseth: "THE DUMB, POLITICALLY CORRECT WARS OF THE PAST... HAD RESTRICTIVE, MINIMALIST RULES OF ENGAGEMENT." FIRST PERSON TO EVER CALL IRAQ WAR "PC" NOW, EVERYTHING IS "PC" (OR "WOKE") EXCEPT FOR THE CHAOTIC WHIMS OF ULTRAVIOLENT MAN-BOYS. Iranian woman: PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! Young man in red hat: OH, STOP BEING SO YOU-KNOW-WHAT!

Latest comic on changing usage of the insult "PC," a form of linguistic warfare that has successfully redefined morality, human rights, and democracy itself as "liberal" -- and therefore weak, effeminate, and inferior.

I know they were not universally loved but one thing I really liked in disco season 1 was the attempt to make the Klingons dangerous again. I’m obviously a fan of Klingons from tng onwards - but they’re kind of more your drunken uncle than a gang of vicious space imperialists

Real lack of understanding lmao. Being right in the wrong way is an incredible skill I've never seen perfected like it is on this site

one page rpg:

winston churchill vs one otter

you are winston churchill at 90 years of age, and you have been confronted by a single otter. you have four moves: alcohol, genocide by starvation, speeches, and being mean to guests at dinner. the otter has one move, which is to bite you in the ass

i’ve come to believe that we will never solve the literacy crisis by talking about reading as “watering the garden of your mind” or whatever. books are, and have always been, the favored medium of God’s purest freaks and degenerates. Reading isn’t a salad. If you’re doing it right, it’s a vice.

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

Asking questions of AI: unimaginative, bad for the environment, amplifies societal bias. ❌

Asking questions of ghosts: creative, exciting, potential for demonic possession, may lead to murders being solved. ✅

Lucas is the Boomer Pythia. Now worshipped, now dismissed; possessed by visions—mystic desert terrorists, planes into buildings, cheeky machines, trade and tax, the beauty of Empire, centuries forgotten in a generation—he speaks but does not understand, each with a strange and bitter core of truth.

In the center of the screen, a rabbit samurai raises his sword and prepares to attack a rhinoceros in a forest; snowy mountains are in the background. Up top, we see the samurai's face contorted into anger, while the rhino says: "All those who challenge me die, ronin..." The corners of the screen give the player's money (3 ryo), Karma (4), the Player's health (9/10), and the enemy's health (8/10).

"ALL THOSE WHO CHALLENGE ME DIE, RONIN"

It turns out that relying on the sun and wind and stuff is better for the UK than relying on petrodictatorships

Who could have guessed

Happy birthday to Tricia O'Neil, a longtime Star Trek fan who was diving with James Cameron when she learned she was up for the role of Rachel Garrett in Next Gen's "Yesterday's Enterprise." She was also Kurak in "Suspicions" and Korinas in the Deep Space Nine episode "Defiant."

I still think about this a lot.

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

BLUE JEANS LADYTRON

23

THE DISTANCE CAKE

29

All men live enveloped in whale-lines.

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!