We will look back in the future on Israel's domestic political and media allies in the same way we look back on those sycophantic supporters of Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa today: as creeps, losers and deniers. It's only a matter of time.
"The accusation of Israeli genocide implicates Jews everywhere only if you first accept that Israel acts as the Jews — and that premise belongs to the deniers, not the accusers." My latest for Jewschool.
When Jews Deny Genocide · Jewschool
“Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the
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Finally reading my copy of Hypermall: Unlimited Violence and @ratbastardgames.bsky.social have truly delivered something special.
Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last wk.Just over two months into his tenure as U.K. prime minister, Andy Burnham is laying the groundwork for an unabashedly socialist overhaul of the British state.
AI bros are almost universally freakish losers who should be put in labs and studied as to how they grew up around people and yet exhibit no traits of humanity worth possessing. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don't Have Feelings
The Associated Press Stylebook posted a reminder not to anthropomorphize AIs because they can't think, trigger a meltdown among AI bros.
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Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3w agoGears of War: E-Day Story Director Laid Off Just Four Days After Celebrating The Game Going Gold
It was the big gala for ABC Heywire Tamar Valley tonight and I was extremely proud to see my kid as one of the winners. www.abc.net.au/heywire/prog...
Today in "insane quotes that made sense in the context of the RPG session." (Sobbing) "At least he died a taxpayer."
This image was posted on Something Awful within the hour of the second tower being hit iirc
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 4w agoalways mystified by the suggestion that Gen Z and younger were the ones who disrespectfully turned 9/11 into a meme. i was at a school in NJ where classmates lost parents, didn't know if my own dad was okay, you could see Ground Zero from a nearby hill, and the lads were cracking jokes by lunchtime
Watching it live in the common room at the uni accommodation I was in - I remember one guy walking in, seeing the footage on the TV, and immediately saying "I need to go rent The Towering Inferno".
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 4w agoalways mystified by the suggestion that Gen Z and younger were the ones who disrespectfully turned 9/11 into a meme. i was at a school in NJ where classmates lost parents, didn't know if my own dad was okay, you could see Ground Zero from a nearby hill, and the lads were cracking jokes by lunchtime
With the news of the Houthi victories out of Yemen the last few days, I think it is time for me to resume developing my pitch for a Tasman Bridge Disaster episode of @wtyppod.bsky.social. What's the link? Well that's half the fun of it.
A journalist would interrogate these claims rather than just repeat them, right?
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last mo.OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
This all starts with a secret handshake between writers and yard workers, a mutual understanding that if writers don't leave cans behind, and they don't touch the identifying numbers on the cars, then there's largely no harm. Writers will go to meticulous lengths to respect the latter rule.
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had Prop Cycle. We had NAOMI. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've left your house, made friends, and played as many games as you ever needed. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to stay at home.
Paige E.ek! 👻@superpaige64.bsky.social · 5mo agothe consequences of pushing video games beyond the means of arcade hardware have been utterly disastrous
Great timing to lose ~140MW of hydro generation capacity (possibly permanently due to the global demand for power generation associated infrastructure), as the grifter campaign to build more AI datacentres here continues to get welcomed by all levels of government.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last mo.Fire breaks out at Hydro Tasmania's Tungatinah Power Station
Lol, no they won't. It's a pretty easy line to follow from colonisation to now.
Gerard@groverxv.bsky.social · last mo.Future historians will be staggered at the degree to which two Apartheid era South Africans gained SO MUCH political influence in the US ... just through pouring money into the pockets of the right
The Tasmanian government hates the arts and culture sector. The loss of TAFE arts courses, the decimation of Screen Tasmania, now this. Cutbacks at the TMAG. Next it will be TSO funding. All the government cares about now is fucking football and this bloody stadium. #politas
Uncertainty over job loss numbers as TMAG faces staff cut
Tasmania's cultural institutions are set to face another blow as the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery looks to reduce its workforce by 30 per cent, figures refuted by the state government.
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Read the Mr Beast book ghost written by James Patterson's staff of ghost writers chained up in a dungeon somewhere for the *chance* to win a million bucks? I don't think so. Jimmy Beast just give me 10k and I'll read it. I'll even give it a written review on Storygraph.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.“Bad news for publisher HarperCollins: The book-buying subset of MrBeast fans appears to be vanishingly small. Two people close to the project say The Most Dangerous Games is on track to be a historic bomb…”
I hate what genAI/LLM bullshit has done to our world already, and this is a wonderful example of how damaging it is to even the most minor and innocuous things. youtu.be/N5YDkQ6oFcE
I Visited a Railroad Museum that was all AI Slop - and this is why it's so bad
YouTube video by Great Basin Car Shops
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Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.
AMIENS, 1992: your classmate Manu is a huge dork. He's 15 and swears he will marry the teacher at your school that he has a crush on, and also make anime critical to the French economy 2026: The President of France declares « Vous connaissez mon intérêt pour les mangas. »
