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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)

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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

People are gonna be real mad when they don’t get to Mars and see the three-tits mutant.

oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now sciencetimes.com/articles/509...

Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitationsciencetimes.com Discover how AI and brain implants are transforming rehabilitation. Read more on Cognify's innovative prison concept now!

Happy Lottery Day to all who celebrate. www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jacksonwww.newyorker.com Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

JACK ELON 🤝 INAPPROPRIATE REQUESTS TO AZEALIA BANKS

It's really strange to consider that Elon Musk is probably only the second most insane person to have ever run Twitter

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Fully prepared to shun this outfit if they show their faces here. SEEN publishing is anti-queer and probably especially anti-trans and they're probably organizing to smother books that aren't cuddled up to the kyriarchy. And anonymous, of course. it said this was my one free article for the month

Publishing network launches for those 'concerned about the impact of gender ideology'www.thebookseller.com A publishing network for those “concerned about the impact of gender ideology on our sector and wider society” launched today for publishing professionals, authors and creatives.

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SOPHIE's posthumous final album is coming later this yearwww.nme.com SOPHIE's posthumous final album will be released later this year. Listen to the new track ''Reason Why', featuring BC Kingdom and Kim Petras.

There's an aside in Mike Royko's "Boss" where a Chicago traffic cop tickets Mayor Daley and the brief excitement around a cop not on the take leads to his becoming a minor celebrity and people wishcasting him in a run for office.

Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.

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everybody whose vibe is pointier than mine is kiki. everybody with a rounder vibe is bouba. I dont make the rules

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we en dash enthusiasts have to take our pleasures where we can

Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn’t a huge hit let’s get to know each other a bit more 👀 📽️

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Kitty Pryde & Magik

I would probably endorse a compromise vision that held the Second Amendment prevents any limitations on bearing arms but that "arms" only refers to muskets and sabers.

Roberts: wait Bruen says WHAT? Fuck fuck fuck I gotta stop voting on shit when I’m drunk. Okay. You can do this Johnny. You went to Harvard. Let’s parse our way out of this mess. Fuckin’ Thomas, I should have known better.

He's just a big fan of Julia Steiner's folk-inflected indie pop.

[stares directly into the camera]

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500,000 books removed from the Internet Archive's lending library after publisher lawsuit: ebook licensing for libraries continues to be far too expensive and restrictive https://www.techdirt.com/2024/...

500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Librarywww.techdirt.com If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the lib…

The AV Club used to put out a list of the least *essential* albums of the year—there were ones that were worse, but they always wanted to know who the imagined audience was e.g., "Songs Of Faith And Devotion Live". If you took away Pamela Paul and replaced her with Chat-GPT, would anyone care?

Okay thanks for letting me know

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Contrast with their speed in the colorado case. The justices are helping trump because they want him to win. bsky.app/profile/djla...

It remains astonishing that SCOTUS waited weeks to even announce they were taking on the presidential immunity case and now we stand on the eve of the last scheduled day of decisions and they still haven't released it -- all but guaranteeing Trump will not face a federal jury before the election.

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Not enough adaptations of Dracula have a cowboy in them. Which wouldn't be weird, except that the original book has a cowboy in it.

We're approaching the point where they switch to "We would have solved climate change, but Al Gore politicized it."

It’s got to be rough for the “Climate change is a hoax” folks to see the climate changing so drastically. It’s hard for me and I knew to expect it.

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RIP James Chance/White of the Contortions, the James Brown of No Wave: youtu.be/RgJMqIJccAc?...

Contort Yourselfyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesContort Yourself · James White & The BlacksOff White℗ 2004 ZE Records℗ ZE RecordsReleased on: 2004-01-01Auto-ge...

TIL Kurt Busiek is a Parker fan. Hell yeah.

I didn't have the same reference points, so when I wound up writing the Punisher in a couple of WHAT IFs, I was bringing in a narrative style from Westlake's Parker novels, and had a great time, and it taught me something about the power of different kinds of voices. Miller/Mazzucchelli's Born...

There’s a shot in Ghost Dog that l recognized on a recent rewatch as a lift from Branded to Kill, but it doesn’t make Jarmusch less of an artist. People dislike QT because he’s tedious, not because this kind of bricolage is disqualifying.

Yeah I don’t find Tarantino especially interesting because I find his pastiche more masturbatory than elevating BUT calling it outright plagiarism means that by the same logic we would have to cancel a lot of other art I find incredibly meaningful.

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This should be front-and-center in every “hey why are so many VCs backing Trump this time” article. Joe Biden has spent 3.5 years rebuilding administrative capacity. We now have regulators actually saying “hey knock it off that’s illegal.” The VCs would much prefer autocracy to accountability.

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

"Lady Killer" was on Criterion—an essentially disposable melodrama. I'll watch Jean Gabin ("Touchez pas au grisbi", "Pépé le Moko") in anything, but while the dude was *sexy* the idea of him being the most universally lusted-after man in the French Army requires, uh, some suspension of disbelief. 📽️

Alien, with Danny DeVito as the alien.

1) Choose a movie. 2) Keep one actor. 3) Replace the rest of the cast with Muppets. 4) Replace the kept actor with Danny DeVito. Go:

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ok "apple is paying openai in exposure" is fucking hilarious

A year ago Nate Silver was “wow, so much for the tolerant left”-ing Elliott Morris’ decision to drop them from the 538 aggregator.

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i bought that guy and a tony leung from shang chi and swapped the heads so i'd have my very own Sad Smoking Mr. Chow from IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE which had surprisingly little tie-in merch aside from the unhappy meals

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If only somebody had told them this would be an issue and offered a comprehensive solution, neatly packaged as a product or technology they could purchase

Nearly 25% of the crossing guards in San Francisco said “they had experienced some type of ‘close call’ in the crosswalk with a Waymo driverless car, where either the vehicle suddenly hit the brakes to prevent a collision, or the crossing guard rushed out of the way to avoid being hit.”

Crossing guards say driverless cars nearly hit them in crosswalkswww.nbcnews.com Nearly 1 in 4 crossing guards interviewed by NBC News in San Francisco said they experienced a “close call” with an autonomous vehicle.