Grizwald
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Watching him utterly crush roles in low-budget pulp fiction movies has been fascinating. His talent gets more undeniable the less talent he's surrounded by.
Mel Gibson
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Watching him utterly crush roles in low-budget pulp fiction movies has been fascinating. His talent gets more undeniable the less talent he's surrounded by.
My growing Luddism with AI basically comes down to "I don't care what you promise it'll do to my productivity, I will not chug the slop".
At a certain point you've gotta draw the line regarding what you're willing to outsource.
At a certain point you've gotta draw the line regarding what you're willing to outsource.
Really not looking forward to what the world looks like 20 years from now as people increasingly become slopchuggers.
The parents of the first baby born in 2026 in this county outside Baltimore got their name ideas from ChatGPT. Hudson Oakley Winkler.
www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...
www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My growing Luddism with AI basically comes down to "I don't care what you promise it'll do to my productivity, I will not chug the slop".
At a certain point you've gotta draw the line regarding what you're willing to outsource.
At a certain point you've gotta draw the line regarding what you're willing to outsource.
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it's wild how many people on my timeline are already like fully into the new year rn. like. you know early adopters are basically lab rats right? we don't really know what 2k26 does to you in the long term
January 1, 2026 at 5:20 AM
it's wild how many people on my timeline are already like fully into the new year rn. like. you know early adopters are basically lab rats right? we don't really know what 2k26 does to you in the long term
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Just let any Eve online player bypass the hiring screening process and unleash them on our enemies.
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just let any Eve online player bypass the hiring screening process and unleash them on our enemies.
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BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
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By contrast, to reference the famous UCDavis medieval price list (medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.h...), in one armorer's shop, the best paid armorer got 466d per month, the next best 320, the rest 288. Those are your masters.
Apprentices gotten ~156. A common laborer might have gotten ~40.
Apprentices gotten ~156. A common laborer might have gotten ~40.
Medieval Price List
medieval.ucdavis.edu
January 1, 2026 at 1:39 AM
By contrast, to reference the famous UCDavis medieval price list (medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.h...), in one armorer's shop, the best paid armorer got 466d per month, the next best 320, the rest 288. Those are your masters.
Apprentices gotten ~156. A common laborer might have gotten ~40.
Apprentices gotten ~156. A common laborer might have gotten ~40.
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Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒
January 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒
Does how you treat a punching bag or a dildo affect how you treat humans? We need to draw clear lines around personhood when it comes to Fancy Autocomplete.
I'm not worried about people being abusive to their AI chatbots, especially men being sexually abusive, from the POV of "AI chatbots are a real sentient guy being harmed", but I feel like the way you repeatedly learn to treat something that can't say no *must* bleed into how you treat humans, right?
December 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Does how you treat a punching bag or a dildo affect how you treat humans? We need to draw clear lines around personhood when it comes to Fancy Autocomplete.
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"Become the worst possible version of yourself and you will finally become a big shot" is the central promise of the Trump Era, and resisting that temptation is the central political struggle. I don't care what nominal politics someone holds if they're constantly falling to the call of The Beast
December 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
"Become the worst possible version of yourself and you will finally become a big shot" is the central promise of the Trump Era, and resisting that temptation is the central political struggle. I don't care what nominal politics someone holds if they're constantly falling to the call of The Beast
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In retrospect this is probably one of the most cynical and brazen ratfucking attempts we've ever seen
After receiving a commendation for exceptional services to the Russian state from President Putin, Biden accuser Tara Reade—seen here in her luxury Moscow condo—has now become a citizen of the Russian Federation... молодец!
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In retrospect this is probably one of the most cynical and brazen ratfucking attempts we've ever seen
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bronze age raider cultures love to brag about how they did war crimes to a million people after a raid which seriously injured a teenager and stole four (4) goats
August 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
bronze age raider cultures love to brag about how they did war crimes to a million people after a raid which seriously injured a teenager and stole four (4) goats
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Doomerism in January was cowardly preemptive surrender, but done at a time when the future was unknown.
Doomerism in December is still cowardly preemptive surrender, but now also requires ignoring all the non-doomer things that have happened over the year.
Doomerism in December is still cowardly preemptive surrender, but now also requires ignoring all the non-doomer things that have happened over the year.
I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
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December 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Doomerism in January was cowardly preemptive surrender, but done at a time when the future was unknown.
Doomerism in December is still cowardly preemptive surrender, but now also requires ignoring all the non-doomer things that have happened over the year.
Doomerism in December is still cowardly preemptive surrender, but now also requires ignoring all the non-doomer things that have happened over the year.
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One thing about a shuttered steel mill (or a steel mill that's now using one small corner to do anything while the vast majority is abandoned) is that it powerfully creates a sense of squatting in your own ruins *even if* in aggregate there's now more steel coming from recycling-based mini-mills.
The story, time and again, is that gains are broad and small and losses are localized and deep.
There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
i don't know, maybe you have to have lived somewhere with a manufacturing or coal economy that has gone into decline to see it. the impact on the area is *not good*. i do understand that the broader economy gets better, but it also seems to get sharper and more regional
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
One thing about a shuttered steel mill (or a steel mill that's now using one small corner to do anything while the vast majority is abandoned) is that it powerfully creates a sense of squatting in your own ruins *even if* in aggregate there's now more steel coming from recycling-based mini-mills.
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Easy to see why people say this now but *at the time* Clinton represented what was meant to be a radical reversal of Reaganism in key respects. He did *not* have 'no particular political agenda' in 1993 - he had a hugely ambitious one! It just got very effectively sandbagged
honestly, the degree to which the election of Bill Clinton - a moderate Southern white dude with no particular political agenda - was a supercrisis for a huge portion of the American right remains baffling. Like, he's the guy you can probably just wait out, right?
December 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Easy to see why people say this now but *at the time* Clinton represented what was meant to be a radical reversal of Reaganism in key respects. He did *not* have 'no particular political agenda' in 1993 - he had a hugely ambitious one! It just got very effectively sandbagged
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Because Legolas can shoot arrows real good I'm going to argue that this is a technical
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Because Legolas can shoot arrows real good I'm going to argue that this is a technical
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I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line.
No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more.
I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.
No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more.
I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.
December 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line.
No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more.
I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.
No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more.
I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.
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it is insane to me that judges rely either on the advice of people who passed the bar six months ago or journals edited by people who graduated high school five years ago
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
it is insane to me that judges rely either on the advice of people who passed the bar six months ago or journals edited by people who graduated high school five years ago
This has more to do with the "you can be anyone and do anything" philosophy behind BG3's design.
If you can be a saint or a villain but need all the companions to stick with you, they simply can't react seriously to the choices you make.
If you can be a saint or a villain but need all the companions to stick with you, they simply can't react seriously to the choices you make.
I think a lot of the problems people have with them are regarding execution rather than the concept. I’m perfectly fine with BG3 having a disapproval system. I’m a little disappointed when selling Shadowheart into slavery earns about as much disapproval from Karlach as cancelling Taco Tuesday.
also won't be popular: i dont care for the criticism that approval systems are bad models for relationship building. no shit? it's a fucking game?
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This has more to do with the "you can be anyone and do anything" philosophy behind BG3's design.
If you can be a saint or a villain but need all the companions to stick with you, they simply can't react seriously to the choices you make.
If you can be a saint or a villain but need all the companions to stick with you, they simply can't react seriously to the choices you make.
Off the top of my head, Geralt/Yen in Witcher 3 was legendary.
I think a big part of the reason for this general belief is the word "subplot". If getting the romance right is considered any less important than getting the combat feeling good, of course it's going to suck.
I think a big part of the reason for this general belief is the word "subplot". If getting the romance right is considered any less important than getting the combat feeling good, of course it's going to suck.
idk if i’ve ever seen a “romance subplot” in a video game that I thought was handled well. maybe cyberpunk 2077’s judy is the best by default? maybe zagreus and thanatos in hades as a runner-up?
December 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Off the top of my head, Geralt/Yen in Witcher 3 was legendary.
I think a big part of the reason for this general belief is the word "subplot". If getting the romance right is considered any less important than getting the combat feeling good, of course it's going to suck.
I think a big part of the reason for this general belief is the word "subplot". If getting the romance right is considered any less important than getting the combat feeling good, of course it's going to suck.
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It's stories like the one in this thread about US resistance to integrating drones that make me really nervous about "Ukrainians are only using them because they don't have arty" talk.
They're not a replacement, but anti-drone sneering is culturally dangerous, if that makes sense.
They're not a replacement, but anti-drone sneering is culturally dangerous, if that makes sense.
Dawg, a single unsuppressed Ukrainian artillery battery was able to stop 4 brigades worth of Russian columns 7 KM before they even crossed the FLOT at Avdiivka because UAS spotted them and were able to adjust fires accordingly
December 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's stories like the one in this thread about US resistance to integrating drones that make me really nervous about "Ukrainians are only using them because they don't have arty" talk.
They're not a replacement, but anti-drone sneering is culturally dangerous, if that makes sense.
They're not a replacement, but anti-drone sneering is culturally dangerous, if that makes sense.
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Doing course prep for this upcoming semester's History of the Inquisition and man, even in 2025 AD with a great ILL and all sorts of electronic resources, I still miss grad school and the ready access to materials that a research university's library afforded.
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Doing course prep for this upcoming semester's History of the Inquisition and man, even in 2025 AD with a great ILL and all sorts of electronic resources, I still miss grad school and the ready access to materials that a research university's library afforded.
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11 year old just told me they are learning about quantitative and qualitative data and independent and dependent variables in science class and I emitted a high pitched squeal of joy
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
11 year old just told me they are learning about quantitative and qualitative data and independent and dependent variables in science class and I emitted a high pitched squeal of joy
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Something I've noticed about comedy is that it feels notably less funny if the facts the joke relies on aren't facts you believe are true.
Also, right-of-center comedy is generally terrible. It doesn't work with their fear mongering and pearl clutching. PJ O'Rourke might be the one exception... Because he does neither fear nor pearls.
December 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Something I've noticed about comedy is that it feels notably less funny if the facts the joke relies on aren't facts you believe are true.