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all the world's a stage and all the players are looking for quick exits from this fubar outfit
if only more people were paying attention to this helpful advisory about how vulnerable Flock cameras are & were helping us guard against the ways in which they can be so easily disabled
here's a higher quality version of the same cartoon "Lights and Shadows" - Udo J Kepler - Puck Magazine, 1909
Puck magazine circa the turn of the 20th century has a lot of great political cartoons this one is "Lights and Shadows" - Udo J Kepler - 1909
at least the AI data centers are profitable. oh wait, what's that i'm hearing??
oh hey i have an excuse to post this gif i made years ago of John Wayne doing his best Revolver Ocelot impersonation
worth remembering that our current crisis of absurd prices for computer components is an extremely recent development inflicted on the public by a small cabal of billionaires (man, i wish i had bought a new computer back when i posted this)
The Last Unicorn is a good example, some gorgeous scenery and murals by Topcraft and then characters who look like this
if this ad had come out in 2015 the internet would have reacted so strongly that Hollywood would have convinced themselves to make a full length Tony Hawk thriller
remembering that time when Tony Hawk did an ESPN ad where he posed as a fugitive on the run
sorry, i was mean to Schatz the time he decided to engage with Blue Sky while he was on a transatlantic flight to a junket in Munich. it's my fault he left this platform in my defense, Schatz was bragging about how senate dem's big accomplishment was causing a 12 minute delay of a confirmation vote
tell me you've never actually gambled for large sums of money without saying you've never actually gambled for large sums of money
this isn't a new observation but it really can't be overstated the extent to which "the cruelty is the point" is the animating function of the modern conservative movement
one of my favorite little factoids is that at Shinzo Abe's funeral there were protesters cosplaying as the wielder of the Doohicky
checking gridstatus and seeing that prices got even higher than that in parts of the SPP a couple days ago. $1800/MWh, those are the sort of numbers that make me reminisce about five years ago
big surprise, it turns out that the only reason we can't have nice things is because the people who run things are literally narcissists who want to keep us under their thumbs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
celebrating the 4th of july by printing up 100 of these stickers and slapping them on ever gas station pump and countertop i come across
why spend money on building solar panels and windmills when we could spend $1 trillion on data centers that make fake videos of pets
hell yeah, there's a fan translation of Metal Gear 2's manual and it looks rad as hell
celebrating America the most terminally-online-millennial way possible: reposting dril tweets happy 4th of July, y'all
nothing that New York establishment dems love more than protecting insiders and using contrived pretexts to claim the party leaders should be above criticism
you can’t truly know the freedom of the computer without occasionally experiencing the low grade terror of updating the BIOS and the minuscule chance of a crippling fault