But how can we know Walter White is a villain unless there is a freeze frame on his face looking mean, with blinking, neon text on screen that says "BAD GUY" at least once an episode?
My counterpoint is that you simply cannot, as an artist, stand beholden to the dumbest members of your audience. Idiots are gonna miss the point, every time.
I have found my dadβs birth certificate (handwritten), and this man used the back of one of his few legal proofs of identity in a foreign country to write (and then retract, via scribbling) romantic bloody poetry.
We donβt talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes.
How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims?
The ALP in your head is long dead.
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid
i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception
May they be united by the same guillotine.
Mark Zuckerbergβs Pervert Glasses, for Pervertsβ’οΈ
The step-son of the NT attorney-generalβs sister!doesnβt even lose his license after hitting two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car, killing one, calling them βdogsβ and βoxygen thievesβ. Serving time in home detention. Australia in 2026.
Labor now refusing to say whether Harold E Holt naval communication station in WA helped support US killer submarine - they keep running and hiding from the reality of AUKUS
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So they didnβt βparticipateβ, they justβ¦watched? They watched as their co-crew members left people to drown at sea? Thatβs in accordance with Australian law and Australian policy? I cannot even
Inspired by #QuitGPT, please join me for what is already the largest boycott of anything in history of all humanity: the #QuitCoke campaign
Already, fifteen million people have considered the thought of signing a pledge to #QuitCoke
Here's a video, with some discussion of alternatives to consider!
Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal Dario Amodei holding discussions with deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic Β© Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal on x (opens in a new window) Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal on facebook (opens in a new window) Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal on linkedin (opens in a new window) Share Save Pro Features Configuration George Hammond and Cristina Criddle in San Francisco Published18 hours ago 105 Print this page Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-
Looks like Anthropic is back at the table with the bloodthirsty military of a war-mongering, school-bombing dictatorship.
Hope you're all enjoying your shiny new paid subscriptions and your vibe-coded websites no one asked for :) Hashtag quitgpt etc etc
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February's Media Blog is up! Much shorter than usual, and most of it dedicated to Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach.
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Iβm unlikely to cave only on the basis that I donβt have a Switch 2, but if I do my Psyduck and I will be there in a heartbeat
Same π
I have become a wanker who listens to records, and I am happier this way.
February's Media Blog is up! Much shorter than usual, and most of it dedicated to Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach.
buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
David Pope cartoon.
David Pope.
Super glad that Labor agreed to pay the US half a trillion dollars so that we can make ourselves a target when America decides to bomb whomever they want (but we also might get like 3 submarines in 20 years) π€©π€©π€©
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"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the βMiddle East."
3 Australians sank an unarmed Iranian warship participating in a friendly exercise with India and let all the sailors drown against International Law.
The newly amalgamated Adelaide University brings utter shame upon itself in its first months of operation.
In a statement following this shocking act, it risibly claims it is a place where "exchange of ideas can happen freely".
Not if the ideas include a defence of the remaining Gazans, it seems.
Once again I will point out that most deaths in early concentration camps occur from illness and poor conditions. But these deaths are not accidents; this is one of the intended outcomes of a concentration camp.
So thatβs a yes, then.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
The very weird thing is that this interviewer kept making clear that he wasn't a hardcore user and that he considers himself an AI skeptic, and then he dropped THAT. It might be an example of how much even a "little" use can toast your brain, or how skewed your idea of "I don't use it much" can be.
