Ian Williams

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PhD at UNC studying craft, games, and the miniatures industry. Former Vice wrestling guy. Labor, games, and soccer. Bylines at Jacobin, VICE, LARB, Paste, others.

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I hardly think you need to be a fashion plate (I'm not) but John Cena coming out in his late 40s dressed in his jorts and color saturated t-shirts looks so funny.

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"We can't be bothered to teach it to you but you should definitely bother to learn it" Boy I dunno if that approach is going to work with children or really immature young adults whose motivation for anything academic is either weak and conditional or nonexistent.

How long before the professoriate is next? 🗃️ www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

My buddy ate six fiber gummies all at once and he's been farting uncontrollably for hours while periodically screaming you can't have too much of a good thing.

It's coming home

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This is why I'm just enjoying the wild ride that is post end of history history

but this is why i still have no idea what he should do! bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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The unity candidate we need is Jacob Frey

A little birthday Frostgrave

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"[T]he fight against data centers and the generative AI tools they power is gearing up to be essential to determine who gets to chart our social and technological future." Fellow educators and students, let's develop a Luddite praxis and join this fight!

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

Opinion section really emptying the clip with a bump stock www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

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by no means prevent all communications

Everyone dumps on the Frankfurts until they need them (the people aren't concerned with Biden's age it's the mass media injecting the narrative MK ULTRA style into a bunch of dupes)

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🎶 I don’t practice Santeria… 🎶

I don't care who's on the ticket in the end but there is some serious unskewing the polls energy around both the leaked polls yesterday and the NYT poll today.

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US foreign policy in 1990.

now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him

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Pick one out boys! You deserve it! Happy 40th birthday midlife crisis to Zen Arcade, the double album released by Hüsker Dü on this day, July 3, in 1984.

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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.

Discourse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqA... Well, got any ideas professor? Well, I suppose it could be some sort of illusion. Yes. Maybe we're being made to see and hear what we hope to find.

200 Yearswww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by Nettwerk200 Years · Skinny PuppyMind: The Perpetual Intercourse℗ Nettwerk ProductionsReleased on: 1986-09-05Music Publisher: Dig IT M...

GARETH SOUTHGATE: See, lads, this is what happens when you attack.

That's one of the most bananas saves in a high pressure situation I've ever seen

When my Crohn's is flaring

strange subterranean commotions

I'm torn. On the one hand, Turkey is run by fascists, are less fun than Austria, and their fans throw things at opposing players. On the other, Arnautovic plays for Austria.

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Can't believe JD Vance is going to be caudillo in 2029

Boy if those leaked internal polling numbers are true and if Hunter is sitting in on meetings while his aides freak out then yeah he's gotta go.