Last night I watched "Mom and Dad Save the World," 1992, for the first time.

Jon Lovitz's portrayal of Tod made the film feel like watching some alternate reality Donald Trump biopic; it was honestly kind of uncannily prescient. IYKYK

'America First, which is why we are starting unfathomably expensive wars to distract from the evil and ineptitude of the ruling class, and obliterating your quality of life to pay for it all.'

I keep seeing the same lie peddled across the visual arts community too.

"Most professional artists are using it but too scared to admit it." Fucking no we are not; I have zero interest whatsoever in offloading and atrophying my hard-earned skills to plagiarism systems owned by grifters.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Bessent is not wrong; we are indeed watching both our security and prosperity take a major dump in tandem.

I don't believe that is the message he intended to send, however.

The party of "Meritocracy" strikes again

FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall Of the seven illnesses identified so far, four are in children age 3 or younger.

United States, 2026: FDA recommends recall of raw cheese that is linked to an outbreak, makers "100% disagree" and refuse to recall product.

arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Chris knows what's up.

First, straw man. Second, slippery slope. Third, argumentum ad populum

In case you didn't notice, I think it's a shit argument that powerful people should be allowed to lie to our faces to manipulate public opinion in their favor so that liars and grifters can assume and hold power over us... "Because first amendment"

Get pedantic about it all you want

If only there were a way to arbitrate the truth, huh. Like, a court system or something. Pipe dream, I guess

What a sticky wicket; I guess we should just continue to let media conglomerates tell easily debunked lies despite that creating imminent danger as indicated by <gestures all around>

100%. 1A doesn't cover shouting "fire" in a movie theater. Media knowingly, maliciously lying to the public shouldn't be covered either. The effects of that are, quite obviously, even worse–as we can presently see all around us.

This is a salient fucking point.

Leftists accused of "purity testing" when they fail purity tests of those who wish to harm and oppress; these are the real mechanics of this idiom.

Want to oppress and hurt people? Opinion. Want people safe and cared-for? "Purity testing."

I used to do live caricatures at fairs. Sat in a booth all day. Can't count the number of these exact solicitations I got.

They'd walk up and be like, "I'VE GOT A MILLION DOLLAR IDEA, WHO'S IN???" And all the artists would look away, suddenly very interested in literally anything else.

One hundred percent.

Seems like millions of chat bots prompting each other 24/7 would be an unprecedented waste of energy and data storage. I would be terrified to see those numbers crunched.

Every American needs to watch this:

And the ordinary folk who said (parroted) the same exact things about MeToo (and continue to say about the "woke") will never consider how much of a blistering indictment this is of their own character and moral compass.

Put plainly: if you are against civil rights and justice, you're a bad person

Hi, uh.

EVERY TRUMP ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION

Beautiful words from a fellow Minnesotan game creator about living in, and processing, this moment.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

I'm sure the seven goons who took it away and then shot the guy ten times a minute later knew all about the gun's "history."

That was sarcasm, in case it's not clear. "Possible clue" my fucking ass; NY Post is evil–just pure evil–and don't we forget it

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

$14k isn't "fraud money." That's "I saved for a year or two for this family visit" money.

They're bragging about simply dicking over individual CITIZENS for the fuck's sake of it because they're brown

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

For one, lotsa AI images of Venezuelans happy-crying happened

A cartoon of ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the killer of Renee Good in Minneapolis this week, pointing his bloody fingers and holding his bloody phone. Captions with arrows pointing to parts of his body read: "broken ears, deaf to suffering," "haircut he thinks looks badass," "tiny lemming brain," "soulless eyes," "coward mask," and, "gnarled ghoul hands that enact state-sanctioned violence against innocent & peaceful humans." A large banner on the right side reads, "Icky Chuds Eww" with the first letters larger, in blue, spelling out "ICE."

I made this as today's protest

ICE GTFO of my city