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The puzzle game/computer science educational game/simulator 'Turing Complete' just got a huge update. Haven't dug in yet, but it's the very best kind of educational game, the one that teaches you as a natural byproduct of play - rather than bolting a quiz to a platformer or something. Check it out!

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...

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Once in a while I remember renting "Lesbian Vampire Killers" and that it's in the running for worst movie I've ever seen. I'd describe it as "trying to make shaun of the dead but with the refined comic sensibilities of a 14 year old" but I was a teen and still found it painfully unfunny.

Honestly, as a wannabe artist, I don't think artists should be all that well compensated in the big scheme of things. Nobody should be poor. But even if you make the most beloved beautiful work of art ever idk why you should get more than a paramedic or air traffic controller or wildfire fighter.

It's interesting, albeit very stupid, how an ordinary and banal thing can become obscene *because* of the realization that some people might find it gratifying. Like the recent trend of blurring bare feet in videos. What difference does it make to the rest of us if something makes someone horny?

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

The Ken Jennings thing is a clear case of 2018 style disproportionate histrionic freaking out over a trivial or imagined transgression. I think it's what happens when you have a lot of (justifiably) stressed, angry people with no more productive outlet - and who are too online to have perspective.

Occasionally I peruse the reddits for PC and Networking stuff and it's amazing how many guys will just post one picture of their PC or Router with zero context and go "My computer dong work right. why is it sad?"

Honestly, I'd be cool if people treated black and white comics like coloring books. Like obviously you have the original but just let anyone who wants to colorize it and see what happens. I'd be interesting even just in how different people's color choices would reflect different perspectives

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 6d ago

I'm usually against colorizing B&W comics, and I'm definitely 100% against doing it digitally... But I gotta say... The hand-colorized Epic Comics reprints of AKIRA were fucking _gorgeous_ Like, I am in awe of even just this one randomly chosen series of panels from issue two:

gorgeous analog colorization of akira

NEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...

Casefile #20: The Dark Knight Returns

Listen to Casefile #20: The Dark Knight Returns from The Black Casebook wherever you get your podcasts!

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Watching Blue Beetle for the show. As of 40 minutes in 1) It's alright. Surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. 2) Susan Sarandon as the villain is doing a magnificent Hillary Clinton impression