I am here to remind you that to me, a middle-aged person, everyone under 25 looks like an actual child. I was recently served at a bar by a man who appeared -- to my aged eyes -- to be a freshman in high school. They know what they're doing when they hit on a teen, and they choose not to know it.
Yes,
@mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.
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ME, PEERING CONFUSEDLY A 25-YEAR-OLD FIREFIGHTER: What a nice hat! It must be fun to wear! AND to ride in the engine! Did anyone pack you a lunch?
Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly
One of my favorite jokes of all time is "Adolph Hitler Commits Suicide" being a tiny headline under the banner story about a hare-vs-tortoise race ... in 1943, two years before Hitler committed suicide. He was alive and well when the Warner Bros. cartoonists made this joke.
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism
christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE.
They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.
"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
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people in sf are scrunging their bungos. they’re wiring fleebs to their pudbots
The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.
This is quite literally one of the stupidest human beings alive
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me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen?
boy (gloomily): no sir
How fares the King
Seconding this. Geocities was so popular that they couldn't keep up with demand at first.
LiveJournal had to close off applications for a year because folks overwhelmed them
Something Awful had to start charging for forum access to deal with the load.
And so on.
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
Artist! Quote with your horn art 🐐
Artist! Quote with your horn art!
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
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An impressive number of graduate applications this year used the phrase “curiosity-driven approach” 🤔
what a legend lmao
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Murdering a wife and mother.
Abducting a baby and giving it a bruise on the cheek.
Flashbanging a car full of kids, including a 6 month old.
They better fucking hope we only stop at “Abolish ICE”
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here’s the pic that photographer took btw
For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...
If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI chatbot Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says
Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Lorwyn Eclipsed was the first MtG set where I served as a lead art director. That meant getting to pitch what these special edition cards would look like, and bring on so many new artists from my picture book days!
Some more of the cards I ADd got spoiled today:
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uh holy SHIT?
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HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆
Outlook for the new year ...
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gotta be the time I enjoyed cheese
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
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THINK ABOTU IT -
dashare.zone ADMIN
One more pelican before I put my phone down down for the night.
Taken this morning. 🪶
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
Pretty disappointed in both
@humblebundle.com and especially in
@girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
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