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
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
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Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village
Happy Monday.
Today we're making a few updates/announcements.
First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web.
etch-humanity.org
ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity.
ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.
Don’t mind me, just rewatching the LOTR trilogy for the millionth time
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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House in a village with a sign hanging on the grass in front of it that says "This area is slightly haunted but manageable"
Hey, it's like me!
Happy Saturday 👻
I think on a very basic, dumb level he just can’t stand that Leo is God’s Bestie
President Pope vs Woke Pope
This is it. I feel like they’re so close to announcing a New American Pope that aligns with their views
My cat looking regal af. He has mostly short black fur with a tuft of white on his chest and bright yellow green eyes. He poses like an elegant gentleman, front paws stretched out and crossed
Blessing your timeline ✨
Nice dissonance. Let me guess, cognitive?
This man works out in jeans
Love waking up to new BOC!
NIN live is the fucking best, seriously sad I couldn’t go this tour
#nowlistening this dropped early for me!
#nineinchnoize
Imagining this as some kind of McGriddle Bundt cake thing with maple syrup? Raisins are where I draw the line, but you should definitely make this
Year Zero is a soundtrack for the times honestly (the concept for the album took place in 2022)
NINE INCH NAILS
NINE INCH NOIZE • HALO 38
APRIL 17TH • PRE-SAVE NOW
Listening to a bunch of NIN while I work today, looking forward to the Nine Inch Noize album drop tomorrow
I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like
trying to post through it rn
Massive Attack: “It’s a career honour to collaborate with an artist of the magnitude, originality and integrity of Tom, but this track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos. Across the western hemisphere, state authoritarianism and the militarisation of police forces are fusing again with neo-fascist politics. Seen within the American emergency, at home and overseas, this track contains pulses of callous impulse & abandoned mind.”
Tom Waits: “One day many years ago I accepted an invitation from Massive Attack to collaborate. Way back then, we sent them ‘Boots on the Ground’. Their long release delay never worried me. Today, as in all of mankind's yesterdays, guarantees this song will never go out of style. Man's fiasco folly is a feast for the flies. Hence, the B side of Massive Attack’s upcoming 12 inch ‘The Fly’ features my appreciation for the winged nuisance."
Massive Attack and Tom Waits have a new protest song.
“Boots On The Ground” is Waits’ first original new track since 2011.
It’s Massive Attack’s first since 2020’s ‘Eutopia’ EP – and first not to appear on Spotify, following a decision announced last year.
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Done with Disney. They also fired the entire visdev department at Marvel, artists who defined their look and vision and made it compelling enough to help the company rake in billions.
What even is the point of aspiring to work for ghouls like this? Used to be a childhood dream of mine. Fuck them
My family also calls this Wacky Cake! The recipe came from an old church community cookbook that belonged to my grandmother, who grew up during the Depression
Woke Pope Beef
Watch him get excommunicated and it cancels his book tour
> the emperor is at war with the pope
what century is it
