They’re calling him the wealthiest independent musician of all time

i had no interest in watching the pitt and i am now gonna watch the pitt

this isn’t at all what “industry plant” means, that’s a pretty sloppy category error describing a totally different thing than what is described here.

gonna write a diss track for my tummy

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

When the global financial paper of record says the market is fake and being manipulated by the President you just know we are entering the Cool Zone

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

they’ll have to pry the ten blue links from my cold dead fingies udm14.com

Think of the world-altering tech since 1997—home internet, smartphones, social media, streaming, AI—and remember that practically that whole time, the US president has been someone who couldn't reset their own Wi-Fi.

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

need to learn how to monetize being interested in shit.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

you take 6d6 psychic damage every time you hear the throaty millennial whoop in the skyrizi commercial

Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.

this was fun

www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

they’re calling it the most swagless super bowl of all time

mamdani child podium gave me an idea:
we should have a monthly primetime network show where a random American child gets to address the entire nation for half an hour about whatever topic they want

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

The right wing is so fully astroturfed that they genuinely cannot comprehend organic behavior

[Oreo cookie CEO]: People not liking Oreos is destroying society.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

narc rips. that opening sequence 🤌🤌🤌

bar after bar after bar

i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

“Kirk did not commit violence, not because he abhorred it, but because committing violence was someone else’s job.”

every sentence of this piece is sharper than the last but this one is gonna stick in my head for a long time. one of the most incisive useless wordpiles i’ve read all year.

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

Honestly at this point I think Bandcamp would be better served by developing a more substantial social review aspect of the site a la Letterboxd. Where else (that isn't evil) has a better vantage point for that?