At least, certainly, Gabe Newell and the like will never say "people like our characters because they fuck." Valve is a weird example, because it's a private company, but, the director of Marvel Rivals will probably never tell a board of investors "Our horny fans like that Magik is a sexy goat."
Stray thoughts about art, porn, games, and "pre-deplatforming" after conversation with a friend. Feels like we've entered an age of "Unspoken Horny" in mainstream commercial products.
Like, we left the sexless Marvel/Disney era and entered the "don't ask, don't tell" phase of the attention economy.
Idiot plot
you have to be morally consistent about these things which is why i believe no one should ever read any books
15. Tesla's sudden and unexpected need for human intervention, while the vehicles are in "self-driving" mode, is a dangerous defect and a misrepresentation. Simply put, a vehicle can drive itself - or it cannot. It is unrealisetic to expect human occupants, without warning or time, to transition from not driving to driving in order to take the controls and respond in time, while also percieving, understanding, formulating the proper response, and reacting in time to avoid the emergency where Tesla's FSD has already failed."
"Tesla's sudden and unexpected need for human intervention, while the vehicles are in "self-driving" mode, is a dangerous defect and a misrepresentation. Simply put, a vehicle can drive itself - or it cannot."
New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
this has happened to me in my literal nightmares, holy shit
SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said.
The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.
Attribution is hard. And there is a difference between getting a contractor on the record attributing the toolkit and a bunch of infosec dudes sitting around pontificating about how "everyone knows."
Screenshot of Fujimoto's interview with his editor Shihei Lin at Jump Festa 2022 where he appears as a 2D image of Pochita in bright orange. Magenta text on the top right describing the interview segment says "Looking back at Part 1: Public Safety Arc" In orange subs, Fujimoto says "I have my own taste of expressing my stories."
Screenshot of Fujimoto's interview with his editor Shihei Lin at Jump Festa 2022 where he appears as a 2D image of Pochita in bright orange. While Shihei Lin sits before him in a green shirt. Magenta text on the top right describing the interview segment says "Looking back at Part 1: Public Safety Arc" In orange subs, Fujimoto says "But I knew that if I chose that, it wouldn't be accepted on JUMP."
Screenshot of Fujimoto's interview with his editor Shihei Lin at Jump Festa 2022 where he appears as a 2D image of Pochita in bright orange. Magenta text on the top right describing the interview segment says "Looking back at Part 1: Public Safety Arc" In orange subs, Fujimoto says "So, I sort of, put a pinch of poison into everybody's favorite hamburger."
Screenshot of Fujimoto's interview with his editor Shihei Lin at Jump Festa 2022 where he appears as a 2D image of Pochita in bright orange sitting atop a black stool. As Shihei Lin sits across him in a green shirt with a table stacked with Chainsaw Man volumes. Magenta text on the top right describing the interview segment says "Looking back at Part 1: Public Safety Arc" In orange subs, Fujimoto says "That's what CHAINSAW MAN is."
Still think about this.
"Obama will prosecute Bush."
"Biden will prosecute Trump."
"Democrats will prosecute Trump if they win the midterms."
"The Good Cop will protect me from the Bad Cop if I talk."
An abuser needs to control what you think is possible. We have to work outside the box the capitalists built around us.
New Signal ad campaign just dropped.
ECONOMY: SHAMBLES
OIL: $300 PER BARREL
COUNTRY: ON FIRE
REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-
its been genuinely so funny that the two massive “scandals” for james talarico so far is that he follows a few onlyfans girls on socials, and that he respects trans people. sounds like a normal guy to me
If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
holistic medical profiles of infants, like all humans, ought to rely on a full profile of a being's body and health, changing over time, rather than hastily attempting to slot them into one or two boxes. anything else is mere patriarchal biopolitics
genuinely, i've never heard a good argument for why to keep doing that. what has happened instead is: nonconsensual surgeries on intersex infants, the setup for transphobic & transmisogynistic violence, & misogyny that starts early on.
making it illegal to assign sex to babies will be the moderate position
Genuinely if you believe LLMs are sentient and use them, I think less of you than someone who thinks they’re just machines.
If you believe an LLM is sentient, then you have decided ”we have created a new type of mind and I am okay with it being forced to do menial tasks and unable to say no.”
If you have seen his work you know MacFarlane was one of the most thorough reporters when it came to every case following Jan 6
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
Fairshake spending millions in MAGA-affiliated money to attack Stratton for taking $40K from people who also contributed to MAGA candidates echoes their 2024 strategy of spending millions to attack Katie Porter for taking $5K from "big pharma, big oil, and big bank executives"
holy shit
Instead of taking Live Nation-Ticketmaster to trial, Trump just let them off the hook.
The federal government had been building a case for years, and could have broken up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly.
But Trump just let them settle out of court.
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glumshoe I'm glad that Indiana finally has its first national park and that it's the one mostly known for having sand dunes that eat children. a pishposh-haberdash how, pray tell, does a dune eat A Child glumshoe Imagine that you're a big pile of sand by the shore of Lake Michigan, between Gary and Michigan City. Your name is Mount Baldy, and you're a popular tourist destination at what is now Indiana Dunes National Park. For a huge pile of tiny rocks, you live a surprisingly nomadic lifestyle. More than a hundred years of tourism and foot traffic has destroyed much of the native grass that kept you stationary. You are now what they call a "wandering dune", as wind off the lake slowly but steadily pushes your tremendous bulk a little further inland every year. As you move, you gradually engulf everything in your path-trees, buildings, rocks, hills, your own parking lot-everything. You are an unstoppable force, like some kind of gigantic gelatinous cube, but you're still very popular with visitors.
In 2013, you suddenly eat a child. It's a surprising move on your part—dry quicksand isn't supposed to be a real natural phenomenon. I mean, what is this, a 1960's action movie? One moment, a family from Illinois is cheerfully climbing your slopes. The next, the 6 year old boy suddenly vanishes without warning, leaving no trace. Would-be rescuers dig in the sand where he disappeared until their hands are bleeding. Geologists insist that he must have wandered off, because enormous piles sand physically cannot form hollows or pockets within themselves-but three hours later, he is found, unconscious but alive, buried almost twelve feet deep in the sand. The current leading geological theory as to how this happened is that the organic material you engulf, like trees, slowly decompose beneath your slopes, leaving behind unstable voids held together only by the fragile remains of the decayed material. When these voids are walked over, they collapse, forming sudden sinkholes that can swallow visitors whole. The rules that typically govern stationary dunes, or wandering dunes in areas that are not forested, no longer apply to you. You are unpredictable and dangerous and have remained closed to visitors except on guided hikes ever since.
Interesting developments in the female Soviet sniper manga
I get so mad about this because I was constantly told "oh just read to your kid and they will learn to read too" and so I DID but my kid still didn't learn to read until I eventually got access to a program that taught him phonics because I didn't know they weren't teaching him phonics in school!
oh look now he's actively choosing to veto bills, not just passively signing what the legislature sends him but actively CHOOSING to OPPOSE otherwise-passed trans friendly legislation
nobody better ever tell me again newsom has anything but disdain for trans people
