the bullies at school keep making me squeeze through narrow gaps so that they can seamlessly integrate cutscenes into gameplay without a loading screen.
Zero Utopia
@zeroutopia.bsky.social
Late 30s, mixed agender-aromantic, pronouns ve/ver, post-scarcity humanist and alleged futurist. Political ghoul who also sometimes posts about music, fighting games, art, and other weird stuff.
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop."
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d agoFamily to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
That took a lot longer than I personally would have waited as a parent while people attacked my daughter's credibility. But at least he did it.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Sen. Moreno says Rep. Max Miller should not serve in House after abuse allegations from Moreno’s daughter.
many of the data centers need as few as 10-50 permanent workers. they aren't software engineers making apps/services. it's $60k/yr people who can check if a hard drive failed and swap it out and monitor if a cooling fan fails even the one-time construction jobs aren't local, they bring in outsiders
‘We’re practically full’: Data center workers fill Eastern Iowa campgrounds
Campgrounds across Eastern Iowa are filling up faster than ever as thousands of out-of-state workers arrive to help build data centers across the region.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
An accurate film would spend about 5-10 minutes with the lead character struggling to remember *how* to use the microfilm viewer, finally spools it in and turns it on, but then it's upside down so they have to start over again.
Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4d agoI can suspend my disbelief while watching film in most respects except for when people use microfilm to look at old newspapers AND QUICKLY LAND ON THE EXACT PAGE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. Without slowly scrolling through countless pages, without having to nudge the image or adjust the contrast.
It's almost as though appeasement is a natural response to an overwhelming and inescapable threat.
Why would a woman try to appease a scary man whom she is legally bound to for many years to come, by virtue of a helpless child whom he has access to and could harm in retribution at any time? Why would she offer empanadas to such a man? Truly perplexing.
Certainly not something people have joked for years about editors needing to pry from their cold dead hands
A writer fond of em dashes? Unheard of in the field
What do we have to do to get IKEA to accept SNAP/EBT at its stores? We’re at their restaurant right now while shopping, and I was just looking at how I can get a pasta plate for like four bucks, and add meatballs for another $1.50, and the calories per dollar is *nuts*. People should have access.
One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5d agoWas awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...
Failson nepo babies who falsely assert knowledge of LLM shibboleths in defense of child rapists should jump down a well, IMO. @kattenbarge.bsky.social is very professional but I am not, so I’m happy to say it.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3d agoI love em dashes and I'm not going to give them up because robots that write badly also use them.
I’ve had a lot to say about Democrats, but there’s only one party whose base sees being a domestic abuser as a political plus.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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It's common knowledge that one of the most dangerous times for a woman is after she leaves an abusive man. It's terrifying to then, with shared custody, let that man have access to your child. Knowing his anger and violence issues, you will do almost anything to try to keep him calm and happy.
So exhausted already by the meme that the "tells" of gen AI writing are when something is structurally aping the way a decent professional writer writes, rather than when it's meaningless word salad. (You will take my em dashes, sets of three, and lack of typos from my cold, dead hands.)
Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d agonothing shouts "I don't read much" more than when you equate em-dashes with AI. as Kat says here: 1) AI uses em-dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM & AI IS TRAINED ON OUR WRITINGS! 2) "AI checkers" are complete bunk (just another AI bullshit machine), 3) this is not a "list of three" haha
it’s simply never too late and anybody who tells you so is trying to kill the person you know you can be
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4d agoToday has been two years on HRT. Very happy with the results
As a reminder, ai cannot have the em dash
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2y agoAI CANNOT HAVE THE EM DASH I LOVE THE EM DASH
Appeasing your abuser is a defense mechanism. It keeps them happy and calm so they don’t hurt you or others in that moment. It’s a brittle, forced peace that feels like you are living in a glass world that could shatter at any moment.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky. … and it’s not even close 😅
psudonym@psudonym.bsky.social · 5d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky... (oh no...)
As much as radicals get criticized for being "unrealistic," demanding entire demographics facing literal genocide always maintain mild rhetoric and actions is an absolutely delusional level of conformity to expect. I don't think that gets said enough.
reading about any technology from the 2000s and seeing "oh yeah this was in Japan ten years prior" is crazy
His underlings can get stuff done when it comes to *dismantling* things, because that's relatively easy. You just fire people until things break. But *constructing* a consolidated power center? That takes sustained focus and strategy. Which is impossible in this administration
One fun fact about overtired toddlers, THEY don't know what they need. They have an ever-changing list of demands and you can spend eternity trying to meet all of them and as it turns out, none of them will ultimately pacify the toddler for more than five seconds.
This exactly. They are all just babysitting an overtired, spoiled toddler who really just needs to go to bed. But they all go to jail if he goes to sleep so instead of getting anything done they just pivot the entire apparatus to indulging his ever-changing, half-assed whims
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d ago3/ blue. That’s not any strategy about consolidating autocratic power. It’s running in circles trying to support one of presidents weekly tantrums.
People keep conflating AI with LMM and it's really annoying Al made Amish Paradise, LMM made Hamilton.