I've been playing Dragon Quest 3 (HD-Remake) and I came to a point where I needed to make a merchant to send off for the main story and I just kind of made a guy called "Fat Chud" thinking this would be of no consequence.
Immediately I'm faced with the consequence of my actions
I don't have the long history of it, but research on this phenomenon of "search engine data voids", funded in part by some of the large search engine vendors, is between 7-10 years old now; and the problem only seems to have gotten worse by the intentional product design decisions of those companies
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
i often think about this review
on the left side, two horses with hearts on top of them, the text above them says "evil horse couple"; on the right side, a serious looking pink figure, the text on top of her says "awesome and intimidating lesbian"
"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"
No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.
finally
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i’m the jerma of the left
assigned FABULOUS at breakfast
JERMA IS SO FUNNY
There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces
ancient meme image: four panels depicting a large head saying "how many layers of irony are you on" to which a squiggly guy replies "like... maybe 5 or 6 right now. my dude." The large head replies "you are like a little baby," with eyes now glowing, "watch this." In the final panel the large head visually dominates the image in a psychedlic manner, with the word "SUCC"
"the shooter was a trans antifa left winger, I'm sure"
"the shooter was a right wing groyper accelerationist, I'm sure"
the shooter:
Fucking 36 hours of "THIS MEANS WAR, LEFTISTS" and now these cunts are going "what we really need is love and forgiveness" hahahahaha fucken losers
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
Fucking hell we had an actual Son Of Sam Altman situation. Horrifying.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
wrote about how social media has us constantly barking at ghosts 😌
one relatively minor thing that's come alongside the rise of SOF veterans as influencers is the idea that these people know how to win wars, when the birth of special forces as an institution can be directly graphed alongside the U.S. no longer winning real wars
i think gay in the gay is a better shirt to begin with
gay in the gay in the sheets
the thing about layoffs of this scale is that so much is happening it involves days and days of discovering fresh horrors
Yes, limited evidence exists: I visited Epstein's NYC home once briefly (~30 min) with my ex-wife in the early 2010s out of curiosity; saw nothing inappropriate and declined island invites. No advisory role or deeper ties. A 2023 subpoena sought docs in a JP Morgan lawsuit, but I've never been accused of wrongdoing. Deny knowing Ghislaine Maxwell beyond a photobomb. grok.com
for some reason grok is responding in first person from elon musks perspective lmfao
this is why I have always believed in my heart that JKR should have been deplatformed for stochastic terrorism in 2021 when Trump was. she really helped normalize the idea that there was a “feminist” case for transphobia and how to frame it as a defense of women and girls. may her soul rot
Years ago I was at New York Pride and I remember running into this couple and they told me they drove like five hours to be at Pride and I was like, “Five hours? Why would you drive five hours?” And he said to me, “This is the one time a year and the only place where I can hold my partner’s hand and kiss my partner in the street without having to look around first. It’s the only place. I don’t have that anywhere else.” One time a year. One place. This is it. And that’s what Pride means. - bob the drag queen
Possibly my favorite summation of Pride
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
People are like, "Wow, so the Supreme Court can just decide what medical care you get instead of you and your doctor?" Yeah man. That was Dobbs. They don't give a fuck about us, about precedent, the actual text of the law, the intent of the law, or anything else. The law is fake.
Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff
-Water for tear gas
-sudecon wipes for mace
-if no sudecon, wash mace with water
One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.
Simple argument here: if this was happening you'd be able to point to a company that was actually doing it. You'd be able to point to the jobs and the ways in which they'd replaced them with AI and the ceo would talk about it openly. Is that really too much to ask? Yes. The answer is yes
