"Kids fell behind with your lockdowns!" (Eliminates Department of Education)
Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Always thought the follow ups to Baku with the cards and stuff was really cool
You know Akiba Maid War had the sauce because it ran for a tight 12 and still had the baseball episode
botoggle@botoggle.bsky.social · 5d agoA concise 12-13 episodes doesn’t give you any time for the baseball episode. An anime TV series is not complete without a baseball episode. We’ve got to do something about this
i'm so tired of trying to use an app or a website like a normal person and then the ceo will be like "i don't see enough racists on my app and that means it's a total failure. i need everyone who uses my app to get super fucking racist right now, or i'm going to kill myself in front of you"
good luck with that when your ideas suck ass, you should expect to be blocked. that's how it should work. and you'll never guess who tends to have consistently shitty ideas...
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Katsushi Murakami, one of the best and most important designers in Tokusatsu that gaves us some of the most iconic designs ever, have sadly passed away recently (on july 20) May he Rest In Peace in a better place and let´s all be thankful for all the work he did
it's cool knowing there's massive forest fires forcing evacuations and destroying massive swathes of my corner of the country, and even cooler knowing nobody in washington will stop that asshole from denying disaster relief purely out of spite.
whenever I get thanked for a summoner raise I imagine a father who is being praised for something mothers do every day. I want to apologize to the healer community.
This story has now made it into English publications. (Which shows you its importance) mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Hokkaido Univ. apologizes over past research on indigenous Ainu remains - The Mainichi
SAPPORO -- Hokkaido University issued a presidential statement on July 27 apologizing for past research on the indigenous Ainu people, including the i
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Daniel Kaihatsu (開発 妥仁得)@kaihat.su · last wk.Hokkaido University has acknowledged that its past Ainu research was rooted in discrimination and prejudice, issuing a long-awaited apology after pressure from Ainu groups and apologies from other academic bodies. While many welcome the move, issues such as stolen remains are still unresolved.
the concept is staring us right in the face. the ai bros said they want to make intelligence something you buy like a utility. destroy enough publicly available knowledge, sit on it like a dragon's horde, erase context, create their own. even the most hackneyed bond villain wasn't this evil.
This is NOT about preservation. They are only doing this to harvest pre 2020's books to use for more training data. They have chosen this method that DESTROYS the book on purpose, because it is faster and cheaper. They know time is limited before society and the bubble catches up with them.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
we're gonna be discussing whether this seminal scene is uplifted by the HD remaster or if it loses something in the transition from soft, grainy visuals imposed by the original medium. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSw7...
best anime dub 1989
YouTube video by Soma is Batman
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hmmm... "inexplicably popular but never released legally in the us before..." At long last, a bluray release of Cipher The Video! /j
Cipher Anise Dance Moves
Alt: Cipher the Video (this is a joke but like... god can you imagine)
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Justin Sevakis@worldofcrap.bsky.social · last wk.We have five… FIVE new AnimEigo titles to announce at Otakon this weekend. One is a new 4k scan. Four are world-first Blu-ray releases. One is inexplicably popular despite never getting released legally here before. And we have 3 more coming that didn’t get signed in time. We been busy.
I checked out the DVD included with the Ray'z PREMIUM BOX I got yesterday, and there's a 20 minute video of composer Tamayo Kawamoto talking about Taito music with a frog puppet
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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OpenAI is now by their own admission guilty of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act *at least twice* and nobody's been arrested but Aaron Swartz was going to spend the rest of his life in prison for helping people read academic journals for free. Fuck all of these motherfuckers.
Sounds a whole lot more oopsie-doodle and "gee wow they made an electronic person" when the reality is their automated hacking bundle of conditionals got loose because they vibe-coded the fucking sandbox
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent that breached systems at the startup Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer of the technology company Modal
lrp tangential, but i wonder if there's ever been a player who looked at the hitbox and was like 'they were LYING to me!?' instead of seeing it as a form of leniency. not that i have any info, but i wonder if any stg players felt cheated when they first played a game that showed the hitbox.
This former Taito developer seems to recall hearing that the Metal Black flyer was painted by the same artist who illustrated Rayforce, namely Tomoaki Okada. xcancel.com/CatoHide/sta...
we're at the point where asians are so invisible in american media they've gotta ask a robot what we look like lol
we are creating new forms of Orientalism and racism over there
Morgan "Joshi Dyke Dickhead"🗡️ 🛡️@girlnextvore.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat do you mean they removed all of the fucking chinese from avatar and replaced it with their own cracker language???
What level of racist is "ask chatpgt what Asian people look like"
Rick@combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 2w agoI dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD
