did they get rid of all the people who play or make or know what a game is for this marketing campaign or what

Thinking about what previous responses to previous bouts of chaos have been and found this, in Sebastian Smee’s Paris In Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism.
So, you know, if you’re not feeling equal to the historical moment you are in goooood company.

Oh yes, it goes without saying that you should not trust the agencies determination of whether someone is a member of that gang. They have gotten it wrong so many times that their assertions on this point are not trustworthy without independent validation.

"Can you be certain about the pumpkin’s gender? You see that the cartoon pumpkin has a prominent Adam’s apple. Good sign. Even better, the pumpkin is punching an effeminate black cat. There’s no ambiguity that this drink is for men."

I had to listen to the audio to confirm it, but yes, as troops are being deployed to American cities, as masked goons are disappearing citizens from our streets, as ICE agents are shooting pepper balls at priests ... Mike Johnson thinks nude bicyclists are "the most threatening thing I've seen yet."

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Good thing the FBI doesn't have any important jobs like, I dunno, counterespionage...

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

In this case, maybe two (2)?

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

Nobody under 30 has seen a presidential election ballot without Trump. We're halfway into a generation that doesn't know any other kind of GOP, this is the version of Republican politics they eagerly signed up for and made a career out of.

How do people not SEE the extent to which this guy is an utter bullshitter? Is this some kind of autistic soul-read thing I'm manifesting? I don't understand how people aren't getting constant red flags from this guy. Every picture just trumpets bullshitter, he is like a parody of a normie-fooler.

No love for Charlie Kirk’s cultural contribution obviously, but the sheer *weirdness* of ventriloquising a dead guy, *at his own memorial event* in order to tell lies THAT EVERYONE KNOWS ARE LIES, in order to present yourself, an eighty-year old man, as a kind if matrix-style superhero.

Gotta think this helps justify a future Dem administration’s decision to essentially terminate ICE and redesign from the bottom up.

The enforcement arm of ICE (ERO) has generally had ~3,500 ppl.

A President could easily fire the entirety of ERO and temp nationalize some Nat Guard to fill in.

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Just trying to imagine what Republicans would’ve done if, say, the head of the California Democratic Party were accused of rape, while one of the state’s Democratic congressmen has his career ended by sex trafficking allegations and a second juggled multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

I'm not phrasing this well, which is one reason it's a post not an essay. But I feel like in other periods when things have been awful in modern times there's at least been a sense that technology might improve living standards? And that does not right now feel true

I have a half formed thought that one of the reasons everything is so awful right now is specifically because the internet and tech are at the root of so much of it, and the thing that was meant to create the future has actually given us the six fingered cyberpunk version of the 1930s.

At least the Mechanical Turk actually played chess, even if it was just a sweaty dude hiding in a box.

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

Yeah it's that simple: OpenAI needs to build 3GW of data center capacity, which will cost over $100bn, and they need to do so in around a year. All three of these deals are based on unreleased chips too. Where the hell is the press on this?
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Seeing Broadcom, NVIDIA and AMD boost off of deals that involve OpenAI promising *each of them* 1GW of data center capacity BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR makes me furious. A data center takes 2.5 years, and none of these supposed developments have even had the land picked. It's all a lie.