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.

I'm endeared

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

How big is the number

Watching people use ChatGPT in public feels like environmental storytelling for a sci-fi horror movie. Like seeing extras drinking a new soda that will be revealed to contain a zombie virus at the end of Act 1.

Five years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club will reopen on March 5!

Poker Night at the Inventory is a high-stakes battle of cards, bets & trash talk coming to Steam, PlayStation & Nintendo Switch.

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3897800/...

not quit what I expected, but I'm very happy with what we got!

Iron Lung slapped

Has this perhaps been recorded and uploaded somewhere?

⭐ New Video 🪓

Revolution, Fascism, & Magic: The Gathering

Folks, this one's a bit big...
youtu.be/4JghX1MBU68

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

When will Ryan Ike cover House of the Rising Sun? (please I need this in my life)

this has become a very important video to me

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me: you’re certain i have to be in the kiln to clean it

the evil potter: but of course my tender boy

me: (blushing) whatever you say boss man 😎
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i love you

This game is actually really fun (and the art is great)!

Carcinization except it’s that every tech company will eventually try to reinvent phrenology

Once again:

it is fucking insane how on the nose it is that their manufactured enemy is literally “antifascism“. if someone scripted a villain this obtuse it wouldn’t survive one round of notes

"No ethical consumption under capitalism" is a statement meant to prime a conversation about the inherent exploitation of the system. It is NOT an excuse to break boycotts or pursue employment with arms companies or some shit. In the kindest way, pull your head out of your ass.

This exact mindset is why it becomes hard to fight for something better because we’re focused on attacking our enemies instead of building something through community, solidarity & hope. It’s how we got here in the first place. It’s playing their game when the only way to win is to make our own.

They're turning every public accommodation into the potty police that must demand to see everyone's birth certificate before using the bathroom.

Do we still need stories about an aspirational immigrant who's so devoted to his adopted country that he regularly puts himself in danger to help even those who fear and distrust him, and who's primary antagonist is an egotistical tech billionaire?

Yes, fucking obviously. You numpties.

A blessing to friends and a curse to enemies: “may all your children be gay and happy”

[time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]

It really can be as simple as reaching out to a friend with a "what can we do?" They may already know, & if they don't they may know someone who does. There is no greater feeling than coming together & fighting an injustice, other than sticking together & following through to something new.

Alt text: A tweet by Drop Site News reports that a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme National Council claims Iran has obtained a large trove of Israeli intelligence documents. The tweet summarizes alleged contents of the breach, including Israel’s nuclear development roadmap, U.S. weapons imports, bribes for Arab leaders, profiles of Israeli spies, personal data from social media users, infrastructure data, legal files, information on prisoners, Netanyahu’s personal files, secret documents, surveillance data, aerial images, CCTV footage, and a banned Knesset debate recording. The claims remain unverified, and the source is described as a known Iranian proxy. A quoted tweet from Mohammad Ghaderi references Iran’s statement on the documents’ significance.

Via Dropsite News: Israel just allegedly got completely pwned by the Iranians. They supposedly leaked everything, mossad files, nuclear secrets, details on bribes, Netanyahu's personal files.

If this is true, this is a historical failure of Israeli intelligence of epic proportions.

"We are exhausted."

You're free to take the boot off our necks any time you want, nobody's forcing you to keep it there against your will, sorry if the squirming is a little uncomfortable underfoot but it's entirely in your power to stop any time you want; a luxury you do not afford your victims.

Happy Birthday!!

Switzerland is actually a perfect thing for Eurovision to compare itself to: A state famed for it's neutrality which laundered looted gold for the Nazis, massively invested in the Apartheid regime of South Africa, & also currently invests in the settler-colonial project of Israel.

Do you think Smarties and Nerds are the same species