@kagerou_honey One of my favorite details from the original MGS3 was that the bullets didnt have enough rotational velocity from the short barrel and small twist rate that as they get shot out, they immediately tumble in the slow-mo scene when the boss fires on snakes crashed mini jet.
Hideo Kojima talking about The Voice of Hind Rajab, a movie that depicts the final moments of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl murdered by Israel. Kojima’s politics have always been pretty clear, but it’s good to see him speaking out.
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
Hunter Biden: “I look at Zohran Mamdani and I go: there’s a leader. He made promises and you know what he did? He kept them. He’s lowering rent, he’s building co-op grocery stores, pre-kindergarten. That’s all people care about. He’s really, really good”
& unfortunately not everything is recoverable. some environmental impacts will be permanent. any endangered species we lose? permanent. cutting down the ancient trees? permanent. the chemical pollution? permanent. the climate impacts? permanent. clean water loss? you guessed it
the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country
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We will not be able to freely access the movies, books, and music that we have loved. I would be a have-not. That's what I'm afraid of. This is not greed.
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes says new song Dehumanized was born from an event that happened last year where the band waved a Palestinian flag during their performance at Reading Festival.
"I was told that peacefully raising a flạg on stage in recognition of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding where children were being killed would most likely carry career ending consequences. It made me realize how we are silently conditioned to suppress our humanity."