pinning this so y'all can find me elsewhere
when u defeat the boss with only 10% health left and the second, bigger boss shows up
"Elon Musk's Shadow Rule," Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 August 2022 [try here if you're paywall blocked]:
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”... “There is only one thing worse than a government monopoly. And that is a private monopoly that the government is dependent on,” [former NASA administrator Jim] Bridenstine said.
grandbastard
kangaroo: (sees creature descend from the sky with a single giant multicoloured wing)
kangaroo: oh i am going to absolutely kick the shit out of that.
nyaanarchist
Obsessed with the way the kangaroo runs straight at them and attacks like a hostile mob in a survival game
getting rid of family vlog channels one state at a time let's gooo
HUGE!
YES
And it was started by a 16 year old?!? Great job Shreya Nallamothu!
we have our best sociologists on the case
the way he spilled...
The Simpson literally made a joke about this in 1997 this is a settled issue, stop giving power back to straight people
calling yourself homophobic slurs is just doing homophobic people’s job for them, you’re proving them right by identifying within it.
cry about it to some other faggot then please
me: man my job sucks i want to play video games or somethin
the nefarious anglerfish:
We don’t talk enough about the two identical old women who just hang around Azula saying ominous shit in unison. What’s their deal. Is there a comic about them. Are they paid for their services
WHAT FUNCTION DO YOU SERVE IN THE GOVERNMENT
They serve cunt and omens. What more do you need?
'The Prince, The Mage, & The Unicorn' 2023 - Joe Eason
Another chapter in my "Tales From A Gay Fantasia" series
OP, this is a genuinely genius method of tricking the human brain into beginning to understand the sort of scale that this looks like.
My main objection here is to the assumption that killing one executive would lead to any reduction of production at all. You think they're out there sweating in the rigs and refineries? They have an entire infrastructure beneath them which will keep going just fine.
Do you think that when Steve Jobs died Apple was able to just keep perfectly chugging along with absolutely zero systemic issues or is the idea that a 1% drop for 1 month is so entirely unreasonable that you simply have to object to reaffirm how entirely hopeless it is to expect any change ever no matter what
some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them
emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says
but I will still kill these ppl
LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN
hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.
unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.
the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.
and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)
so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.
EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.
of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.
source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)
Incredible sentence in the Financial Times this morning
Love this person representing how 99% of humanity felt in ~1700, a stance that is probably the minority today.
Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.
It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.
the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have
Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.