The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Ah, so the SPLC violated the How Dare You Be Mean To Nazis Law
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.
requiem for vanished birdsong
The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
Rotational ambigram of the name “Dan” that reads the same upside-down. This is inscribed upon a black scratchpad that reveals colorful backing underneath the scratches; these colors are largely reddish orange with some yellow and pink at opposite sides of the top or bottom.
Ambigramonday mood: Not Great
Hope Dan’s doing well, though
#ambigram
Happy Neil day to us all 🎵
This looks like the shit Kingpin would give the crooked cops in Daredevil
I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII
guy turning his head to look at another woman meme but instead of women it’s trees. caption on guy reads “me, on a walk” caption on tree on the left “moss growing on a tree” caption on tree on the right “Lichen growing on a different tree that I'm going to look at next”
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
When did arcades turn into mini versions of Las Vegas? They're the closest young children can engage in our society’s ever-expanding gambling complex. Games your children are certain to lose. They are scams. My latest at @crossplayblog.bsky.social www.crossplay.news/p/most-arcad...
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
"It corrupts the youth--"
My Brother in Christ, the youth are watching the entire government shuffle their feet while a babbling racist bombs Iranian children. You want to stop bad influences? Ban war. Don't let sex criminals be president. Fund school lunches.
If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.
PANEL 1: MATTIIE, sitting in a chair, slumped over in the dark. Behind her, you can see the green goblin mask from SPIDER-MAN (2002) but it has a phone instead of a mouth. MATTIE: It's really too bad I have this observation that I can't articulate great yet. But I can't stop thinking about it. MASK: HAVE YOU POSTED IT YET? EHEHEHEHE! PANEL 2: A dutch angle shot of the mask. MATTIE (VO): No…there's no way to say it without everyone yelling at me! MASK: POST IT! YOU'RE A GENIUS! PANEL 3: MATTIE, on her knees in front of the mask, crying. MATTIE: No! Never! MASK: POST IT! YOU'VE NEVER BEEN WRONG! PANEL 4: MATTIE, typing on thephone. TEXT: LATER MATTIE: Oh yeah. Everyone is mad at me. Bigtime. MASK: GET MAD BACK AT THEM
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A photo of two crappy screenshots of a transactional program, blown up and placed next to each other so that you can see a column of user “RNB” on the left and a column of user “MB” on the right. These initials are displayed in lowercase font and are virtually identical thanks to poor font kerning.
This is the dumbest thing. Way to distinguish user “RNB” from user “MB”, chucklefucks! This is literally dependent on the viewer being able to tell when ONE PIXEL is either gray or black. Nice.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Amaze amaze amaze!! 🤩
Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mi...
He was so loyal to Nixon, Pam...
researchers discovered that a coin, when flipped, overwhelmingly yielded a useful “heads” or “tails” result and almost never landed on edge. this indicates that the coin has situational awareness, intelligently refining its outcomes to those with the greatest contextual value
Kudos to the Trump team for being such idiots that it just looks like they’re trying to be nice to Jasmine.
This is not how the catchy song goes at ALL.
“Born on a mountain top in [Texas],
[Texas-iest] state in the land of the free,
Raised in the woods so he [was a high-IQ frontiersman],
Kilt him a b'ar when he was [obviously related to Jasmine],
Davy, Davy Crockett — [TV’s Daniel Boone pictured here]”
Donald Trump wants to pick and choose which kids born in the United States get to be a citizen. His executive order is unconstitutional — and anti-American.
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
