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The way some video hosting sites have started storing videos in very low quality and using AI upscaling to "reconstruct" the original at the time of display in order to save space is already bad, but I'm waiting for the technology to get to the point where they can start doing that to audio, too.
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The way some video hosting sites have started storing videos in very low quality and using AI upscaling to "reconstruct" the original at the time of display in order to save space is already bad, but I'm waiting for the technology to get to the point where they can start doing that to audio, too.
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If you get your groceries anywhere other than Walmart, Trump and his cronies have ensured you're paying a higher price for your Lays, Gatorade, and Pepsi
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you get your groceries anywhere other than Walmart, Trump and his cronies have ensured you're paying a higher price for your Lays, Gatorade, and Pepsi
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This is an amazing thread.
if you play a stringed instrument you have that kind of intimate material relationship with the concepts of vibration and tension, and the limits of what sounds fingers/hands/picks/bows can create matter and you would not produce better art by removing those limitations
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is an amazing thread.
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I have come to the view that a) there is nothing inherently wrong with pornography, b) a worrying amount of Actually Existing Pornography is essentially hate propaganda against women, c) a lot of b is made under deeply abusive conditions.
Yes, which is why it is both true that (1) allowing THIS congress and THIS administration to sign internet restrictions or porn bans is crazy, but (2) there is a major, major problem with online access to pornography and liberals/Democrats needs to start thinking of ways to reckon with it.
also the online far-right are, almost to a man, porn-brained at a level that's quite difficult for people to process. they genuinely believe pornography is an expression of reality, and porn tropes shape their thinking about women.
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have come to the view that a) there is nothing inherently wrong with pornography, b) a worrying amount of Actually Existing Pornography is essentially hate propaganda against women, c) a lot of b is made under deeply abusive conditions.
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This is more honest than the Time thing
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is more honest than the Time thing
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I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
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the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens
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Something about this is all twisted up in how TERRIBLY people in the U.S. deal with the concept of aging and of death.
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Something about this is all twisted up in how TERRIBLY people in the U.S. deal with the concept of aging and of death.
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An admirably terse assessment of a global disaster.
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
An admirably terse assessment of a global disaster.
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
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They’re not hurting for “good ideas,” they just want ideas they don’t have to pay anybody for.
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
They’re not hurting for “good ideas,” they just want ideas they don’t have to pay anybody for.
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Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
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"It's a neurospicy sleepover! We'll all lie in separate bedrooms with different environments and text each other in the dark while petting cats."
December 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"It's a neurospicy sleepover! We'll all lie in separate bedrooms with different environments and text each other in the dark while petting cats."
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there is no threat to linux more existential than Linux Guys
global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
there is no threat to linux more existential than Linux Guys
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."
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feels strange to be anti-A.I. after prepping my whole life to believe that robots are people and data from star trek is my friend but the thing is that i am not an idiot child anymore. i am an idiot adult who wants to use adobe products for my job without burning my own house down
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
feels strange to be anti-A.I. after prepping my whole life to believe that robots are people and data from star trek is my friend but the thing is that i am not an idiot child anymore. i am an idiot adult who wants to use adobe products for my job without burning my own house down
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Not only do I want to watch the credits for the decompression vibe, it also feels like an acknowledgement of the hundreds of people who made the thing I just watched. Good job Second Assistant Caterer John Smith, your service is appreciated.
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Not only do I want to watch the credits for the decompression vibe, it also feels like an acknowledgement of the hundreds of people who made the thing I just watched. Good job Second Assistant Caterer John Smith, your service is appreciated.
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I don't want to get autoplayed into something else in my queue, let alone something the algorithm picked. I don't want to have to ride the remote to prevent being pulled away from my mellow credits vibe, because that really crimps the vibe.
December 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I don't want to get autoplayed into something else in my queue, let alone something the algorithm picked. I don't want to have to ride the remote to prevent being pulled away from my mellow credits vibe, because that really crimps the vibe.
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So, you've just watched something cool, the credits are rolling, what do you want to do next?
Me, I want to vibe to the credits. It is part of the show. This is the final "sequel" in the scene-sequel model, the last point for processing the stuff that preceded.
I want the option to do that.
Me, I want to vibe to the credits. It is part of the show. This is the final "sequel" in the scene-sequel model, the last point for processing the stuff that preceded.
I want the option to do that.
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
So, you've just watched something cool, the credits are rolling, what do you want to do next?
Me, I want to vibe to the credits. It is part of the show. This is the final "sequel" in the scene-sequel model, the last point for processing the stuff that preceded.
I want the option to do that.
Me, I want to vibe to the credits. It is part of the show. This is the final "sequel" in the scene-sequel model, the last point for processing the stuff that preceded.
I want the option to do that.
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There is enough historical precedence to illustrate the outcomes below. Appease the right, and they will ask for and take more time after time, until there is nothing left.
Fuck “civil debate”, hold these shits accountable to their faces in as uncivil, accurate, and truthful terms possible.
Fuck “civil debate”, hold these shits accountable to their faces in as uncivil, accurate, and truthful terms possible.
There is only one side that needs to quit their shit. It ain't the left.
If the right stops their nazi bullshit, then... hey, the world gets better, fewer people hurt.
If the left stops... the right will stomp on them and hurt more people.
This isn't goddamned algebra.
If the right stops their nazi bullshit, then... hey, the world gets better, fewer people hurt.
If the left stops... the right will stomp on them and hurt more people.
This isn't goddamned algebra.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
There is enough historical precedence to illustrate the outcomes below. Appease the right, and they will ask for and take more time after time, until there is nothing left.
Fuck “civil debate”, hold these shits accountable to their faces in as uncivil, accurate, and truthful terms possible.
Fuck “civil debate”, hold these shits accountable to their faces in as uncivil, accurate, and truthful terms possible.
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obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin
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Banging this sign from now until I stand before the gates of Sto’vo’kor
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Banging this sign from now until I stand before the gates of Sto’vo’kor