Mastodawn

"Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season [4] of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters."

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Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)

Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters

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Nowhere Girl 30m ago

Chris Claremont's process for creating new characters in comic books, in the 1970s, was to constantly ask, "Why can't this character be a woman?"

And while the man is essentially a soap opera writer and has his flaws, this very minimal effort put him head and shoulders above his contemporaries.

He also thought Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne were boring as fuck so you know, I like him even more.

https://substreammagazine.com/2018/02/interview-chris-claremont-x-men/

INTERVIEW: Chris Claremont shares why he loved creating the X-Men

In the year 2000, the first X-Men film came out to high praise and spawned a series of movies that have mined the long running comic books for their plots. The clear majority of those plots have come out of stories originally created by Chris Claremont, a British-American comic author who wrote several different series […]

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Nowhere Girl 39m ago

RE: https://yiff.life/@tael/116325471293353839

If I'm understanding this correctly, what the tech industry has done is create a hyper-expensive chat bot that acts as the interface for a mundane utility that doesn't involve or require "AI" at all.

Nowhere Girl 46m ago

Human Brain Enthusiast 1h ago

RE: https://yiff.life/@tael/116325471293353839

This is why "AI" won't take over the world—it can't. It doesn't work that way.

It can work to augment and in tandem with existing technology and has some useful use cases (though IMO relatively few).

Nowhere Girl 49m ago

AnarchoNinaWrites 1h ago

*shrugs*

Literally every rich and powerful person in your society envisions a future for you that looks like Dubai. And in that story, you aren't gonna be one of the people eating fois gras in the luxury bar.

They aren't hiding it either. So prolly time to figure out if that's cool with you or if you intend to do something to change the present course our society is on. Because it ends in Dubai - and Dubai is not for, and has not ever been for, the labor class.

Nowhere Girl 50m ago

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PetterOfCats 56m ago

@artemis when I hear “I’m fiscally conservative” what I hear is: “I’m selfish and I got everything I want from society and I’ll be damned if I let society do the same for you.”

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Nowhere Girl 51m ago

Nowhere Girl 56m ago

I can't get an endocrinologist to look at me for kidney, adrenal, and metabolic issues because I'm trans. 🫩

Nowhere Girl 13h ago

Orange Lantern

13h ago

I mean, we think it’s a comedic exaggeration if we put skulls and spikes and other shit on cartoon villains to make clear they’re evil … but actual evil people do this in the real world, it’s not cartoonish simplification or hyperbole, it actually happens, they do that. They literally put skulls and lightning or, yes, noose pins on their clothing. And some people still find it hard to identify the villain. At some point you gotta stop assuming idiocy and have to accept that they are bullshitting you, because no one is stupid enough to not get that.

Nowhere Girl 14h ago

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Revoluciana 1d ago

"The law is vague. It's vague on purpose. It's vague because they can and they will arrest you for it if, when, and how they please, or for whatever gender infraction they can put on you. Because they're not policing dresses and nail polish, they're policing our existence. Something they've long done, they still do, and will continue to do in the future."