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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 5h

Old and flaccid:
Whisky Dick

New Softness:
Absolut Unit

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 6h

I'm starting to think maybe the country that went to war with itself and killed 3% of its own population over the right to own people aren't the good guys...

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 6h

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 6h

I'd hate to disappoint.

We've got Inspect Her Gadgets, the gender constable. Bothers, who waits at the museum to give you bells for cultural artifacts, and Hattrick Bateman, future Brasilian national and Interpol's Most Wanted trading card model.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 7h

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 6h

Being the Hutt's on-call birthday clowns? Someone's hankerin' for a rancorin'!

Defector @defector.com · 19h

Bill Burr keeps cycling through excuses for doing the Riyadh Comedy Festival: defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 6h

In the 90s you could be like, "My name's Glennothan Clampshaft and I'm gonna wrestle a sleeping bag full of raccoons" and make millions. Today you have to ninja kick God in the asshole to get noticed and it's still like "I slayed the all-father, but RacketMonkeys slayed my bills."

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 6h

It's time.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 7h

I really expected Edward Furlong to be taller. Like... a LOT taller.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 7h

What's a Mormon programmer's favorite book?

The PERL of Great Price.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 7h

"CY-O-NIDE!"
-"JJ" Jimmy Jones

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 7h

Write a satirical game about the oppressive nature of housing as a service and 100 years later, the biggest fast food chain in the world is like 'technically, we have to say it's MOSTLY food! Congrats!'

(ALT: A McNopoly gamepiece reading "You won FOOD" and details about redeeming).

Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta be a less dystopian way to put this

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 7h

I unironically absolutely agree. It was a blast.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 7h

Me walking into my faculty meeting with all of the tenured prodigies:

Steve Buscemi from Boardwalk Empire, probably, in a dapper pinstriped suit with a red carnation, holding a drink. He's in a very well adorned office from the early to mid 20th century.
Text:
How do you do, kid fellows?

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 8h

The lead singer from The Dead Kennedys was running to catch an overpacked elevator. Anyway, Kraft lied and he took the stairs.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 8h

Working with Kid Rock gives you kidney stones.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 21h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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power to the people on the streets ✊🏼 @strivingally.bsky.social · 9h

Dems need to understand this.

Not a single criticism Republicans level at them is ever made in good faith.

Therefore it’s impossible to compromise, placate them, or gain their respect.

They hate you for existing & they’ll call you communist extremists regardless of how hard you reach out to them.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

“They’re all Antifa now”

Laura Ingraham screenshot that reads: THEY'RE ALL ANTIFA
NGL
NOW
DEMS MELT UNDER PRESSURE
THE ANGLE ALERT

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 9h

Public domain worst case scenario....

Like, it all needs to be free to access, but that means it gets accessed by people who want no one to be free.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 9h

I stare at the blinking cursor.

The pressure is unbearable. But exhilarating.

Could I?

I could. But...SHOULD I?

No. Of course not.

The computer waits obediently. The cursor drips on my forehead, bringing me closer to madness in 4/4 time.

I am weak.

History, forgive me.

The setup dialog for CachyOS, a Linux distribution. The dialog is prompting for the computer name.

Text:
What is the name of this computer?

CachyOutside

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 10h

This is fucking SURREAL. My REAL LIFE friend and my REAL LIFE town are represented here. These are REAL scans of places and things I see daily. So utterly and devastatingly gross.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 22h

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 10h

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IDF lifted Ian's work and used it in genocide propaganda....FUCK these fucking fucks.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 22h

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 10h

<hits the brain worm juice>

"What if the mouth pop artist from Doug and the mouth pop artist from Seinfeld got into a fight and one of them got popped in the mouth and it went 'BOPpppuppadooooBAH!?'"

"Do you... have a child who attends here?"

"No, but do you sell those licorice ropes by chance?"

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 10h

Look, the numbers are horrible. So I implore you to convince your friends and family who use AI to at least do one simple thing. Pick a subject on which they are an expert and try to get AI to write instructions on that subject for an expert-level task.
57% of the time, it's right some of the time.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 10h

Does he want to force himself into the role of prophet? Like, I thought it was a warning.

Do not become addicted to art. You will resent its absence.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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