The New Yorker, "Wondering why people are pining for old technologies - CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What's behind our longing for inconvenience?"

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

Super mario bros movie : generic kids movie held up by cameos and references Original mario bros movie with bob hoskins : avante garde cyberpunk film about a dystopian capitalist society bent ln genociding inferior species, brought down by two blue collar men

You know what tho

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

pen and watercolor illustration of dale cooper from twin peaks. he is looking to the right, driving while recording a voice memo into a recorder in his left hand. speech bubbles say "diane, 11:30 am, february 24th. entering the town of twin peaks" and "i've never seen so many trees in my life"

happy twin peaks day 🌲🥧☕️

LAYER 8: FRAUD

arrives...

NEXT WEEK.

Nadella next week:

A drawing of a Scampuss, a spherical catlike yokai from Nioh 3

#Nioh3 #Scampuss #Sunekosuri

A stock photo showing a 5 cent charge on pasting. HEADLINE: Adobe Rolls Out Pay Per Paste.

Adobe introduces a 5-cent surcharge on users pasting in Photoshop, Lightroom, and the rest of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.
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GOG now using AI generated images on their store AI continues to be everywhere, and now it's appearing on the GOG store too most recently a big banner for their New Year Sale.

GOG now using AI generated images on their store
#GOG #AI #AIGen

Nation wonders if guy who ‘loves winter’ also likes getting fucking choked to death - The Beaverton CANADA – After weeks of relentless cold, the nation wondered today whether local man Jake Bryans still thought Winter was “The best season”, and also whether he thought it would be fun if all 35 milli...

Nation wonders if guy who ‘loves winter’ also likes getting fucking choked to death

The separatist petition signing is today at the Big Four Roadhouse. Someone went to to check it out and take some photos. They aren't allowing photos though so they were immediately kicked out.

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#Calgary #abpoli #Alberta

Abolish ICE is not enough.

Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.

We need prosecutions and trials.

Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

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in case you didn't understand why transphobic rhetoric worried us so much about this guy, well it's because it's a signal that shit like this is coming next.

only pedophiles invest in $TSLA

Comic. Standard 16-Part Epoxy. [Epoxy applicator with multiple labeled chambers in different colors: resin; hardener; filler, softener; rosin; stuff that bonds permanently to skin and nothing else; stuff that will turn white and crack over a few days, for decorative appearance; placebo; minced duct tape; acetone Fragrance; powdered bar magnets; polyethylvinylesteracetate; 2-polyethylvinylesteracetate; salt and pepper to taste; blood sample from the Gorilla Glue gorillas; stuff that bonds to every known material except yours]

16-Part Epoxy

xkcd.com/3194/

Again, we don't hate the head of Epic enough.

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis - Hard Drive The Nazis are the most despicable scum to ever walk the face of the earth. Thankfully they were defeated in World War... Get the full story

For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files.

#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

This isn’t about “saving alberta”.

The same folks pushing separation to save Alberta from “Canada’ collapse” are also advocating for Quebec to leave Canada.

This isn’t about Alberta.

It’s about destabilizing and destroying Canada.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Homelessness persists when policy resets every election.

Proportional representation supports durable coalitions and long term investment.

That stability is what makes real housing solutions possible.