Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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a great summary of the current state of de facto ruby governance from @threedaymonk; I think that if ruby is going to meaningfully remove the influence of the fascists currently in charge of it, it is imperative that gems.coop and the move to fork rails are successful po-ru.com/2026/07/29/i...
It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn’t speak much English; perhaps he could speak...
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Let’s assume for a second AI is making you more productive. Is it making your life any better? Are you healthier? Happier? Have more free time? Have richer social lives? Greater fulfillment? I’m not being hyperbolic, the main thing AI has increased in my life is misery. How am I supposed to act?
IDK who needs to hear this, but you shouldn't buy promises of utopian futures with abundance and UBI from dudes who spend a considerable fraction of their time figuring out how not to pay their taxes.
I keep thinking about how OpenAI is a DoD vendor and a legit military target while we are in a war with a nation that has hackers and OpenAI has stated on the record that someone or something was aggressively hacking another US organization from their network… …and they didn’t notice for a week.
Guess whose laptop fell out of their bag and made a $3.5K oopsie on the concrete
climate change is real. all costs of beating climate change must be born by other people, who produce emissions purely for fun, unlike the emissions I produce, which are all life or death necessities
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2026 the modal center left opinion is: Climate change is real! But the actuarial risk posed by climate change? Fake news spread by usurious financial institutions.
if there aren’t a few little Lego tiles of Mulder’s porn mags this is entirely illegitimate
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w agoGillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.
AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w agocompanies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong
blair@blairaf.com · 2mo agoOne of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
Its difficult to put my my anger over this into words. The modern Backrooms was born from the collective effort of thousands. That collaboration, all that passion/time was freely given because it made people happy. Now its being monetized. Its exactly like Ai and the internet.
Pointing a spray bottle at Ezra Dax any time she interacts with Worf
Y’all know this was supposed to be a joke, right? stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/0…
Always remember that loudly calling something shit and evil and bad still has power, however diminished in this era of shamelessness.
Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 3w agoDid not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
I saw someone talking about the movie Clue on here yesterday and it made me realize I’ve been wanting to do a rewatch, so tonight instead of paying to rent it, I pulled it up on Kanopy through my library app for free and like…
I work in libraries and know firsthand that we have a lot of shit we need to fix in our profession, but I’m currently accessing entertainment for only a few pennies out of my taxes and holy shit libraries are incredible. I’m so glad humanity invented them.
It’s moments like this that rekindle my love of my field when some entitled bastard of a professor makes me want to quit my job.
Supporting the onion continues to be an investment that pays off
The Onion@theonion.com · 4w agoCEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt
Exhibit N°128482016492 that UBI works and _makes money back_ For those in the back: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAN ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE
paulseesequasis@pseesequasis.bsky.social · 3mo agoFrom ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
