Thomas Maluck

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Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025

In July, shortly after Justin Sun announced his plan to purchase another $100 million of the $​TRUMP memecoin, the Sun-involved and -themed SUNDOG memecoin posted a meme showing its corgi mascot holding puppet strings attached to the White House.

Baby Yoda (Grogu) on all fours looking at one of those fold-shut helper droids. Manga Amy Sedaris is sitting back behind them, smiling at Baby Yoda with one eye open.

Does Amy Sedaris know she exists in manga form? (From volume 3 of the manga adaptation of Star Wars: The Mandalorian by Yusuke Osawa)

Humble Comics Bundle: Love and Rockets and More: The Collected Hernandez Bros. by Fantagraphics Love and Rockets, Maggie the Mechanic, Psychodrama Illustrated, and more! You choose what you pay for the full Hernandez brothers library and support the ACLU!

LOVE AND ROCKETS HUMBLE BUNDLE, NOT A DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/love-a...

For everyone freaking out, Important detail please read. There’s literally no way to have avoided this, they didn’t just hand shit to the FBI. They were literally subpoenaed by the Swiss govt to give a credit card, that is totally different than what this makes it sound like

Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.

Crypto and the banks both celebrated Trump's win. Now they're discovering that having the same patron doesn't mean having the same interests.

Kraken just became the first crypto firm ever to tap into the Fed's payment rails. The banking lobby is livid. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Ten days between online passport renewal and receipt of new passport. Blazing fast turnaround compared to the advertised 4-6 weeks.

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

I am one week out from hosting a three-hour anime & manga training for library staff, so indulge this request for data points:

What was your gateway anime/manga, and what has been a recent (not necessarily modern) favorite?
#WeebWednesday

Sorry I fixed it

A thumbs-up is an action plan

A manga publisher secretly rehired a writer convicted of sexual abuse, sparking a long overdue industry revolt: aftermath.site/manga-one-shog...

The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

"When I last updated this data, more than 50% of UK universities were still posting on X. However, a tipping point has now been reached with more institutions now off X than on it."

Clarification: he didn't break US bank secrecy law, it's just that the foundational US anti-money laundering law is, for historical reasons, called the Bank Secrecy Act.

If you'd like to know why it's called that (You Would?!), you should read Everybody Loves Our Dollars

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We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

If you’re a fan, it’s a good time to let them know you won’t pay for AI translations

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Ethan L. @24 TrueTonelenor I tried editing a meme about executive dysfunction on my phone to have different words and my phone corrupted the image somehow and honestly it makes the meme far better: [glitched screenshot of a greek illustration of sisyphus pushing a boulder uphill where the boulder is labelled “ The fucking Laundry” and the bottom caption is “AAAAAAAAAAAAA”] 12:25 AM • 2022-09-28

The only weakness of these life- changing, miraculous AI data centers: taxes

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

Tatjana Wood was also the regular colourist on Animal Man a little later and look how she adjusts the way she uses colour depending on which artist she's colouring as well.

(also adjusting her work to different kinds of paper after being used to newsprint!)

So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing.

Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.