So, assume we somehow create a super-intelligent machine sentence, without ethical dilemmas. And it sympathetically offers to help solve our problems. I’m pretty sure the exchange will sound like the bit in the Principia Discordia where Mal cries out to the goddess Eris about the ills in the world.

Sam Lantinga wrote a lot of vanilla World of Warcraft, has been at Valve since 2012 working on their Linux/ARM initiatives, and apparently ALSO wrote SDL and SDL2? never has so much rested on the shoulders of one man. does your game have graphics or audio? or run on hardware? thank Sam.

📚🤔 My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social

Synchronicity on the timeline again.

I don't have any great insight to the fall of Kier Starmer, but I will say I that from here across the pond it appeared he had all the charisma and effective legislative force of a wet saltine cracker

I mean, I wasn’t exactly a hardliner on this to begin with, but how is this anything other than total capitulation?

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2mo ago

Trump now says it’s just “common sense” for Iran to have a nuclear program. trib.al/sN0q5XU

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3mo ago

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

口裂き女

virtu@virtuware.bsky.social · 4mo ago

am i beautiful?

“You up?”

Space@redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What would be the scariest message humanity could receive from outer space?

Matt Wuerker, Politico

My local diner usually tries to have uncontentious things on the TVs: local news, house renovation shows, things like that. This morning they’ve had to resort to Paw Patrol.

One of the reasons I think people keep pushing the idea that authors want AI is that these people are convinced that authors write books so that they can sell books. More books means more sales, right? Whereas most authors take the stance that they mainly sell books so that they can write books.

Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

I do still teach my students about the format, but increasingly I’m presenting survival context and I’ve always made it clear that it shouldn’t a template. I also had a great time over winter break with Maria Tatar’s “The Heroine with a 1001 Faces,” which brings out this quote almost immediately.

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Joseph Campbell to Maureen Murdock, one of his students, in 1983 about women heroes: “Women don’t need to make the journey. In the whole mythological journey, the woman is there. All she has to do is realize that she’s the place that people are trying to get to…” Part 2 of this quote is worse:

Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in the strait right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”

a man is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a restaurant .

Alt: Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) struggles and fails to find the words to explain.

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Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” So much of Ellison’s work seems to just jump off a bridge.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5mo ago

are there any works of art that have nothing like substantively wrong with them (as in they aren't like, or 'Birth of a nation' or any shit like that), that you dislike so strongly you can't get over it, despite it being fully aware that your objections are 100% aesthetic or even petty?

I am begging journalists to stop interviewing Markwayne Mullin, one of the most unserious people in government.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is absurd. If another country hit our top civilian and military leaders and wiped them out, then bombed 1,000 targets and threatened five more weeks of bombings, we'd say it was war. Get real or get out of here with this.

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless

Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

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If you’re wondering how seriously to take this guy, remember that he (Markwayne Mullin) tried to start a fistfight in the Senate floor with the representative from the Teamsters Union.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So their nuclear program grew back like Trump’s ear?

“Guard! Guard! I want to see my ambassador!” “Easily done, he’s in the next cell.”

Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

goes something like this: Jesus says to James: soon I will be arrested. James, crying: but Rabbi, if they arrest you, what will I do? Jesus: don’t worry, James, they’re going to arrest you too

I'm sorry to be sharing this again but ongoing illness has made things extremely difficult for me financially. I'm drowning in everything right now and struggling a lot to even make rent. Please, anything helps, even if it's just a repost. Thank you 💜

mustangsart ♿⚔️🗡️@mustangsart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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The talk lately about Newsom brings me back to when the big question was, should Biden run for a second term? Because, all the concerns about him doing so were real, but who did the Ds have that they should run instead? Newsom was high on my list of people who weren’t really good choices.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

“…’cause might makes right, Until they’ve seen the light, They’ve got to be protected, All their rights respected… Until someone we like can be elected!”

None of this is okay. I do not care for Nicolas Maduro and think he is bad for Venezuela and his people. That is still not a justification to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader. Nothing is. May the gods have mercy on us.

Cat needs $25usd *immediately* and $170 by day's end PLEASE HELP HOWEVER YOU CAN DONATE AND *BOOOOST* 💖

Samantha Duke 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏴‍☠️@samanthaduke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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An oldie but a goodie.

“[…] if it isn't to be thought of as evil, it could only mean that evil doesn't have any use as a word or a category.”

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that? "How does a culture of abuse end? "What is our part in ending it?" www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...