Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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One of the hosts of The L0WL1F3 Podcast, DJ, writer, editor, remixer, and allegedly chill dude. The Site: https://neondystopia.com The Pod: https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/ DJ Sets: https://moodblender.mixlr.com/
A trailer park in deep blue East Palestine, Ohio might seem like a strange place to meet a Trump supporter. But over heated discussion of Brandon Aiyuk's contract status, you can hear whispers that DEI is the reason a good prostitute costs $140.
the average generative AI booster is simply the evolved form of the 2011 "yeah I've got a really great idea for a game series, I just need someone to do all the programming and writing and create all the artwork and assets and level architecture and stuff"-type "game designer"
Ragnarok Lobster@amagire.bsky.social · 4d agoof course the "access to creativity" that the slopjockeys accuse us of "gatekeeping" is just artists and writers and programmers and musicians wanting to be paid. but still
Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet
Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet
WASHINGTON D.C. - President Trump, a man who was elected based on his self-proclaimed "deal-making genius", has failed to secure a trade deal with Canada, a nation most known for maple syrup and neigh...
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Is no one running against the GOP on a "they fucked up lettuce" campaign?
"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...
Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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Me filling my car in GTAVI and I turn to an npc and say, via voice chat AI transcription, “what are those clowns in Liberty City Congress doing, 5.87 a gallon?” The npc turns to me and says “have you used your DraftKings Presents Maximum Fun Tokens yet? I hear the casino downtown takes them.”
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
Absolutely stunning debut feature. Went in blind, was blinded. youtu.be/JeWg8wUlQVo
BLUE HERON - Official Trailer
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The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2w ago"The jobless boom has arrived," per WSJ
The live streaming social media platform Twitch is letting AI train on everyone's streams, to boost the plagiarism/surveillance-state tech's capabilities. Twitch says no one would willingly choose to feed the machine so they had to sneak the 'permission' in secretly, hidden in settings.
TQ 🌿@witchytq.bsky.social · 2w agothey know we don't want it. they do not care.
This is just to say That I have hidden the President in a catering truck which you were probably saving for dinner service forgive me he is such a coward so small and so dumb
This last sentence here is the entirety of my politics now
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Iran fiasco is the closest to comeuppance he's seen in a while and it's still unsatisfying because there are no real consequences for him personally! We should organize our country in a way that giant assholes aren't able to constantly wreck shit for everyone else and then shrug and walk away
Over on Whatever today, I'm talking about "AI" and creativity and how, when it comes to learning creative skills, Generative "AI" is rather like the old "Guitar Hero" game, i.e., a really fun way not to actually learn how to do a creative thing: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/g...
Generative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of Creativity
So, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. First off, this is awesome! The universe needs more people making a…
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I'm about a quarter of the way through this and I'm really fuckin' loving it. Not breezy, but propulsive writing.
just got an app on my motorola razr that does the Howie Scream when ever my fingers or my toes or my penis is bitten by dogs
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
The Register@theregister.com · 3w agoSci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft