Kanye West being booked to headline Wireless Fest on all three nights feels like a major and utterly grim cultural shift. Ten years ago, a huge artist who recorded and released a tune called “Heil H*tler” would have gone to the wilderness and stayed there. But he has been welcomed back in through the front door. And this is on the heads of the festival organisers, each of whom should be publicly grilled about this choice. Indulgence of anti-Semitism is one of the early warning signs of the return of old horrors, and it doesn’t get more indulgent than this.

Why do these regular acts of brutality by the Russian government draw a fraction of the attention that the Israeli government's (equally brutal) attacks do?

picture of a smiling star wearing a nightcap the text reads “the getting ready for bedtime star. put this star in your post when you’re feeling sleepy, so that your buddies know you’re gonna head to bed soon”

To analogize the Al information-collapse scenario: It's like if the modern information economy was a bee farm, where journalists are the honeybees. (We do sting people from time to time). Information is honey, and society loves honey! You don't even need to meet a bee to eat it. But making honey is so slow... Then a new Al-powered robot arrives that makes it a lot cheaper and faster to get the honey to consumers — by driving over the flowers, smashing open the beehive and killing all the bees in the process. There's no more honey to collect next time, and the robot is left to scrape up whatever is left in the debris. One day you get to the grocery store, and crud is the only thing on the shelves. Suddenly dinner is less appetizing but you don't know why. Oh, and society has gotten addicted to riding around on the bee-smashing machine.

Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse:

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GUY YOU KILLED IDIOT BIGGEST MORON ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET NO LOOT ON BODY? STUPID AND POOR. HAD LOOT ON BODY? ALWAYS STUPID, NOW POOR. YOU GENIUS PLAYS FOR FUN ONLY ONE PLAYING THEIR CLASS KIND OF THE LEADER OF THE PACK GUY WHO KILLED YOU TRY-HARD BIGGEST JERK ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET DIDN’T EVEN GIVE A CHANCE TO TALK IT OUT FIRST SPENDS WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THIS GAME

made a cheat sheet for the three types of people who play marathon.

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This is my favorite opening paragraph in a long time. It fills me with hope.

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?”

PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.”

Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?”

PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

the world does not need anymore videos of people holding a clip on mic in their fingers and giving their incoherent take on a news item they half understood

He was 41. Lived in Dallas with his wife and 6 kids. Was arrested Friday while taking his kids to school.

Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (Zack Abrams/The Block)

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Take it a step further: put the boats on wheels, pull or push em over! Easy.

….Look, the Turks did it like 600 years ago. It’s not hard!

I was over on x dot com scoping out things to talk about on youtube dot com and across a unique and cunning plan for dealing with the strait of hormuz

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

fill in with colors and you got cubism

remember, sheehy is the dumbass who accidentally shot himself and then tried to pass it off as a war wound.

This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

accurate

I think the question is less whether the Trump executive order could hold up in court than how far he is willing to go and how much chaos he is willing to cause in response. None of his 2020 election claims held up in court either.

oof

It’s as if the Metro Opera House had a death scare; all curves now sharp edges; marble to concrete

That hood part better come with a print of the pickelhaube on it

#blessed

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

foie gras is good and geese are asking for it

the diablo games and any other gear grind RPGS are in essence no different from the kim kardashian mobile game

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