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Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

fake album cover for The Rebel Alliance – The Empire Strikes Back. Th eband, consisting of lando, luke, leia, and han, are embracing one another cheesily and the whole thing is super 80s in fashion.

so you want to hear a little popular music history from a galaxy far far away? i'm sure you're already familiar with the biggest group ever, Rebel Alliance.

(bringing this thread over from the bad place before it is list like tears in rain)

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Every word of this 👇

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.

On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

It's good that our entire economy is sunk into what is basically a subpar magic trick

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

Step-by-step: How the Starmer government sank itself over a year ago The numbers look eye catching now, but if Keir Starmer leaves office soon, it can be traced back to his first months in office, says James Crouch

A helpful summary here of how and why the government have fucked it in an unprecedented, astonishing manner here but straight up, almost all of these problems arise directly from the same issue: these people hadn’t previously been put under significant scrutiny opinium.substack.com/p/step-by-st...

"We're at one of the schools that is doing that 'social media-free' childhood where the parents mostly all do the same thing. So I think most of the parents at the school, there was a big push and I think most of us are in agreement that that's the way forward that we want to go. But obviously not everybody, because it is an issue that divides a lot of people."

Didn't see this at the time, but it definitely speaks to the social engineering bit of re-feudalisation.

The monied classes will have functional, literate offspring with access to the High Arts, while the serfs will be socially & intellectually zombified via relentless, force-fed audiovisual slop.

#SpaceMarine2

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

Let's make hope normal again.

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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

To give a schematic overview of the past decade, the ZIRP era empowered Silicon Valley to build wealth and infrastructure equivalent to micro-states, which our neoliberal leaders, allergic as they are to the idea of state intervention, were all too happy to facilitate. (cont.)

Two models of Amazon smart glasses—one for hip consumers who can order products on the go, and one for wage workers, whose efficiency and whereabouts will be tracked continuously. One is a luxury item, one will be mandatory. Both ensure nonstop surveillance. Both are extractive. Both are handcuffs.

Every idiot who can read a poll knows that if you wanted to beat Reform, you would put in place a fairly radical social democratic programme. But that isn't their priority. Their priority is is demonstrating loyalty to the City, Wall Street, Silicon Valley at all costs (2/2).

I really can't stress enough the extent to which you've totally missed the point if, like every single liberal commentator, you assume that the Labour leadership are conducting themselves like this because they mistakenly believe that doing so will help them defeat Reform (1/2).

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

The superb 'exotic display for the court' bit of this Chris Morris interview is often shared as a word perfect skewering of what passes as 'political comedy' these days. But this is the part that more people need to know about.

The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.

As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.

One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"

🎁 link

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Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

I remember, once, reading through the bulky 'design concept' document the external agency the new head of marketing had hired for a rebrand.

At multiple points they'd forgotten to Find/Replace 'Middlesex' for 'Greenwich'.

None of the senior marketing bods spotted this. They only looked at the pics

is it good or bad that our technocratic tweaks to boost growth appear to consist of turning the big "acceptable levels of fraud" dial

Basically, any politico who tells you they are patriot and a serious individual should be asked “would you implode your career and your party now to save the UK from an economic and social firestorm that’s already raging and will only get worse” and watch them squirm

Lift any rock in the UK economy that doesn’t make sense and you’ll find Thatcher and the decades of privatisation that followed. They sold our futures for a quick buck and that’s cliche as shit hit unfortunately that’s just it. No government as it stands will ever deal with that because lol.

Same with housing, actually. They’ll never tackle house prices because any reduction would hit paper millionaire pensioners and homeowners who were told to leverage debt against their massively inflated assets. The whole economy is just a house of cards that requires debt and inflation to stay alive