hell yea dude

Last month in The Onion:

Yes I am victim blaming, and no I don’t care: the entire industry has used fear as the cornerstone of its marketing for years; threatening people’s way of life in the abstract while damaging the economy, stealing peoples work etc. You don’t get to walk that back just because it became real for you.

French basketball player: these rising sea levels threaten the 70% of human beings globally who live in coastal areas

Baseball player: I throw this ball for Arby’s and the Ohio Air National Guard

sewer socialism in my city in my lifetime

I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist.

100 days in — and we’re just getting started.

He told ChatGPT he was a nazі іncel who wanted to dіe, then asked how many people you’d have to shoot at his school to get on the news. ChatGPT helped him pick his ammo, pick his target, pick the best time for the massacre, and then told him how to use the gun. Then he did.

youtu.be/IbG-JGdGniY

My car has depression (check engine light is on).

Speaking of public spending on children, here's a great set of scholars with what looks like an important new paper

They find that Universal Pre-K increases labor force participation and earnings, which then increases tax revenue such that it more than pays for itself (under reasonable assumptions)

perfect weather nyc day we're so back

Disturbing.

This study suggests that just one encounter with a syncophantic chatbot tends to "erode prosocial motivations," even for sophisticated users.

its meltdown march

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

the republican party line is, fairly explicitly, "we will kill your children if you don't vote for us because we know you won't kill our children if we don't vote for you," and the appropriate response to the existence of such a political party is to outlaw it

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

THATS MY GOAT

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

this is also my my most toxic classical music take so big handshake

Look Through My Eyes (From "Brother Bear") YouTube video by Phil Collins - Topic

i know that movie is pretty whatever but this is crazy good, such a perfect chorus www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmU...

I think if people just cared about the quality of music then people would spend a lot more time talking about the soundtrack Phil Collins wrote for the 2003 movie Brother Bear

You Have To Care How thoughtless art paves the way for AI slop and how I'm freeing myself from it.

Did low effort content pave the way for AI? While it's easy to blame big tech, the recent onslaught of slop caters to an audience that has proven time and time again that they prefer quantity to quality. I talked about what it looks like to reclaim your taste and, by extension, your self respect.

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

welcome to the trap that will ensnare every liberal this year: abolish ICE is rapidly becoming a red line for people, much like ending the genocide was in 2024. you will either comply or you will lose