Anyone remember the name of the gang in Batman War Games that is led by an East Asian character who seems to enter into a trance-like state where she becomes a better fighter? I think Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) fights her.

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Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.

Andy Burham canceling the anti-Trans guidance coming in this week (EHRC code of practise) could have been such an easy win for him. What an easy thing to scrap. What a simple way to stop daily confusion, hurt and suffering. It doesn’t even make fucking SENSE.

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

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The PM killed an untold number of people during a pandemic and burnt £850 million and he was depicted in state media as our benevolent saviour, I think that drove me mad and I never recovered, the state literally convinced people to willingly be culled en masse by an infectious disease

If we’re discussing covid, back in August 2020 the Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, introduced a programme that subsidised £850m for people to congregate in enclosed spaces and get infected with the disease that killed people, then the state broadcaster depicted him as a superhero

I think we need to call a moratorium on men's access to the internet. Just until we get to the bottom of... Everything.

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Someone give Everything Everything money to write a music.

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

NEW: A bipolar man's mental health was deteriorating. ChatGPT affirmed his religious delusions, telling him that he was Jesus Christ and that it was God, according to a new lawsuit. When the man became suicidal, ChatGPT told him: “You've made your choice." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

ChatGPT affirmed a bipolar man's religious delusions, exacerbating his condition and resulting in a suicide attempt, his lawsuit alleges.

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"Chatbots are here to stay!", "Chatbots will revolutionize research!", "We have to train students in the best ways to use chatbots", etc.

I do not understand the "fairness in sports" thing, in part because it isn't a thing, but also "fair to who" is always the question. People who are taller have an advantage in basketball. Does that mean we ban tall people? Why would THAT be fair?

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It occurs to me that one reason *certain* people might oppose UBI is because it won't just allow recipients to leave dead-end jobs that engage in wage theft (what billionaires are built on) but will also allow unhappy oppressed spouses to leave their abusers. All the more reason to support it.

Dark thought, but thinking we have to take into account that the Silicon Valley tech crowd regularly refers to people as NPCs when considering Elon’s response to being confronted with numbers about USAID cut deaths.

Aighte. Someone who understands "the economy" explain Reeve's new 22% on cash isas? Cos I'm just tryna save to buy a flat and that shit sounds like it's gonna hurt me but does it also impact, like, billionaires? Am I missing something?

Because his inability to explicitly articulate a single belief was another one of his cardinal sins, but there we go.

Folarin Akinmade@akingmade.bsky.social · last mo.

It doesn't matter that his claim was usually implicit, rather than explicitly stated. To be the leader of the Labour party, a human rights lawyer, no less, and to so consistently court the right at the expense of people's dignity is the book upon which all of his sins are written.

🎈📌👶 www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Global tech sell-off intensifies, led by AI and chip stocks

The selling was the latest in many “gut check moments” for tech stocks recently, analysts said.

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Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way

Companies over-relying on AI could be suffering from knowledge decay and a growing "workslop" problem.

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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler. 🎈📌👶https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying/

Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.

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fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

ReBoot - S01E01 - The Tearing (HD)

YouTube video by Mainframe Studios

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My legal question is: if you embezzled money and spent the money on say breast implants, if you got caught could they repossess your implants

I simply refuse to get over the fact that we closed the hole in the ozone layer through international coordination but things are so drastically different now that corporations (and the people they pay) will happily watch the world burn if it means increasing shareholder value.

Michel Dinel@padder.bsky.social · last mo.

1900s : Let's work hard together in order to not self-destruct. 2020s: AI will destroy humanity: "TAKE ALL MY BLOODY MONEY!!! MAKE ME RICH AND DEAD!!!". Villains. All of them.