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juicero 2: enter the juicing singularity. all things are juice and juice is in all things. split the atom and then split it again. (into juice.)
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
juicero 2: enter the juicing singularity. all things are juice and juice is in all things. split the atom and then split it again. (into juice.)
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Who else remembers a few years ago when the Jujutsu Kaisen movie made almost 200 million at the box office and the dub cast got like $300 tops
Ask literally any voice actor if they get royalties from the video games they worked on.
They will tell you no. They might even laugh.
Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.
They will tell you no. They might even laugh.
Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.
Also, re: "they get royalties", how much money is that? Does it make up for the lack of continued work?
Paying next to nothing is still "getting paid royalties" but is functionally nothing.
Paying next to nothing is still "getting paid royalties" but is functionally nothing.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Who else remembers a few years ago when the Jujutsu Kaisen movie made almost 200 million at the box office and the dub cast got like $300 tops
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Ask literally any voice actor if they get royalties from the video games they worked on.
They will tell you no. They might even laugh.
Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.
They will tell you no. They might even laugh.
Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.
Also, re: "they get royalties", how much money is that? Does it make up for the lack of continued work?
Paying next to nothing is still "getting paid royalties" but is functionally nothing.
Paying next to nothing is still "getting paid royalties" but is functionally nothing.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ask literally any voice actor if they get royalties from the video games they worked on.
They will tell you no. They might even laugh.
Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.
They will tell you no. They might even laugh.
Now imagine any developer actively trying to use AI VO to save money wanting to offer something like that.
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The short-termist harm-reduction logic that elected Democrats appealed to in this deal is 100% identical to the short-termist harm-reduction logic that vote blue no matter who relies on. They're just thinking like their base does!
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The short-termist harm-reduction logic that elected Democrats appealed to in this deal is 100% identical to the short-termist harm-reduction logic that vote blue no matter who relies on. They're just thinking like their base does!
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Charts on inequality are often misleading because they include income that comes from welfare, which mutes the effects.
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Charts on inequality are often misleading because they include income that comes from welfare, which mutes the effects.
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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This goes through a lot of strata of society and media right now but some people really believe “how dare the fucking scum make me feel bad?” without any irony
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This goes through a lot of strata of society and media right now but some people really believe “how dare the fucking scum make me feel bad?” without any irony
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Saw a clip of Chris Cuomo calling Zohran petty for referencing Mario Cuomo in his speech and it’s pretty interesting about where we are as a country that they had super pacs linking Zohran to 9/11 but still feel totally free to call someone else classless.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Saw a clip of Chris Cuomo calling Zohran petty for referencing Mario Cuomo in his speech and it’s pretty interesting about where we are as a country that they had super pacs linking Zohran to 9/11 but still feel totally free to call someone else classless.
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I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
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The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
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The idea that the US was not a co belligerent in the war on Gaza more or less requires that you just ignore the evidence as it exists
The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The idea that the US was not a co belligerent in the war on Gaza more or less requires that you just ignore the evidence as it exists
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From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory
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all this to preserve the filibuster, that’s what this is for. Schumer needs to preserve it at all costs and diffuse as much excitement from Tuesday as possible
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
all this to preserve the filibuster, that’s what this is for. Schumer needs to preserve it at all costs and diffuse as much excitement from Tuesday as possible
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they’re going to keep doing this as long as you keep voting for them
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
they’re going to keep doing this as long as you keep voting for them
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explaining how the American deep state sells illegal drugs to fund black book budgets for their illegal activities across the globe and how Lucas interpolated that into a cartoon for kids to a 7yo
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
explaining how the American deep state sells illegal drugs to fund black book budgets for their illegal activities across the globe and how Lucas interpolated that into a cartoon for kids to a 7yo
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it’s so wild that they’re going this hard for Josh Shapiro, a man whose position on Israel makes him totally unelectable, and who covered up a woman’s murder bc his best friend did it but I wouldn’t expect any less from one of the worst accounts ever
There are multiple things wrong with this but chief among them is the delusion that the State Department position (supports two states in the abstract while doing everything possible to help prevent it from happening) is somehow popular.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
it’s so wild that they’re going this hard for Josh Shapiro, a man whose position on Israel makes him totally unelectable, and who covered up a woman’s murder bc his best friend did it but I wouldn’t expect any less from one of the worst accounts ever
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…right isn’t trying to steal you or your families’ healthcare and food (which they’re still doing now btw), it is weird for an opposition party to co-sign that and fund that (even if trump “does it anyway”) instead of just highlighting that point aggressively and then also getting creative locally…
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
…right isn’t trying to steal you or your families’ healthcare and food (which they’re still doing now btw), it is weird for an opposition party to co-sign that and fund that (even if trump “does it anyway”) instead of just highlighting that point aggressively and then also getting creative locally…
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If you’re asking (tho who is?) my opinion *as a voter with no actual power* what my shutdown position was, it would probably be: Dem electeds will say that Trump and his party unleashed a lawless, authoritarian orgy of historic cruelty, militarism & destruction against millions, so even when the …
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you’re asking (tho who is?) my opinion *as a voter with no actual power* what my shutdown position was, it would probably be: Dem electeds will say that Trump and his party unleashed a lawless, authoritarian orgy of historic cruelty, militarism & destruction against millions, so even when the …
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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All of the senators, even the ones that didn't vote yes yesterday, are now helping fast-track this through the senate. This isn't just a Chuck and the defectors problem. The entire senate's rotten, and absolutely not a single one of them should be electable ever again.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
All of the senators, even the ones that didn't vote yes yesterday, are now helping fast-track this through the senate. This isn't just a Chuck and the defectors problem. The entire senate's rotten, and absolutely not a single one of them should be electable ever again.
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It is also telling that instead of just defending someone's actually existing position we've devolved into vague nothings about how XYZ has the "State Department's view" on Palestine. What does that mean?
There are multiple things wrong with this but chief among them is the delusion that the State Department position (supports two states in the abstract while doing everything possible to help prevent it from happening) is somehow popular.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It is also telling that instead of just defending someone's actually existing position we've devolved into vague nothings about how XYZ has the "State Department's view" on Palestine. What does that mean?
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gallego lost dems the election and sarah mcbride only achieved encouraging her congressional bullies to be even more psychotic. what are we doing here
that new democrat strategy document cites sarah mcbride's transphobia as justification for everybody else's transphobia in the introduction :)
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
gallego lost dems the election and sarah mcbride only achieved encouraging her congressional bullies to be even more psychotic. what are we doing here
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sooooo funny that even the guy who the dem seniority bigfooted to keep him out of that judiciary committee chair and to keep useless fuck dick durbin in it won't return even half the spite at them. useless
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
sooooo funny that even the guy who the dem seniority bigfooted to keep him out of that judiciary committee chair and to keep useless fuck dick durbin in it won't return even half the spite at them. useless