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[cass @tfemakechi]

Albert Wesker reveals that his birthday wish is to end bioterrorism

[ABC News @ABC]

A baby African elephant charged at tourists on safari at a game reserve in South Africa, trying its best to look ferocious.

[Master Cheeks @WiggerMaggot]

Women reading “Werewolf Nigga Rape Dungeon 2”

[𝐋 𝐎 𝐂 𝐔 𝐒. @TheLocus343]

Oh god it's worse than i thought, it's perfect

[Wesley ✨ @wesleytypes]

Things we got since the last mainline Elder Scrolls game was released:

- 14 mainline Call of Duty games
- 13 FromSoftware games
- 2 The Last of Us games and a TV show
- 12 models of iPhone
- 16 builds of Windows OS
- 12 major versions of Android OS
- 3 generations of Nintendo consoles
- 6 seasons of Better Call Saul (full series)
- 4 seasons of Attack on Titan (full series)
- 14 Star Wars television shows
- 17 Marvel (MCU) television shows
- 5 Eminem albums
- 7 Sabrina Carpenter albums (all of them)
- 43 flavors of Mountain Dew
- a 2nd trip to the moon

[Elsie @Meelsie143]

you scroll down far enough on a playstation store sale and you start seeing games from parallel realities

[Lucius Merryweather 🖊️🐶 ASTRALINE @Merrydawg]

Ugh. Seriously? I was excited about the One Piece remake, but this just ruined that. Why do they always have to change things? Why can't they just follow what the original work does? How is One Piece gonna be One Piece without the stretching? How do they expect that to work? How's Luffy even going to fight people if he can't use his devil fruit power?

[LostAKJ @AKJ_N5T]

@NikTek This is very different than shit from a ass; it’s anus generated fecal matter. That’s why we call it poo from a butt

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

#EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinTrumpPedoFiles
#EpsteinDistractions #EpsteinFiles

[natebrade @natebrade]

@BabaGan00sh12 @arvofart It's that sort of thinking that got us this shit

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is something almost beautiful about how naked the corruption is now.

No more speeches about sacrifice.

No more solemn lies about democracy.

No more fake tears about freedom.

Just war for Israel, higher oil, and the president of the United States openly celebrating the profits.

That is America in its purest form.

A country where the poor are asked to endure inflation like patriots while the ruling class insider-trades its way through blood.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me get this straight…

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.”

Then he raised billions of dollars.

Then he closed the source code.

Then he converted to for-profit.

Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.

Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models.

Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter.

He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it…

Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…

[Cultist Zolon @CultistZolon]

There was a time humanity had the courage and moral fiber not to submit to every greedy whim that came across its purview.

To understand "Yes, this would accumulate me more wealth, but this other thing, which still accumulates great wealth and gives me fulfilment, enriches the lives of others. It is worthwhile."

But no, now we only seek the bigger number. We seek the more, at the cost of all else. And so we watch as massive corporations destroy one of the greatest means of self expression our society has ever known, something that speaks to the core of who, as humans, we are: storytellers, explorers, adventurers, wanderers. Just like the oldest oral tales and cave drawings, we've learned not only to tell our stories to millions through gaming, but to give people a chance to live them, to experience them in a way other media could never provide.

And this, in the end, is far less valuable than to feed the AI machine - not a creator of stories, but a consumer of them - a simple tool that can hoard the wealth of human knowledge and spit it back out at us in reformatted configurations, rather than novel and unique experience. Regurgitated stories rather than novel ones crafted by an inspired mind.

This is what we've decided has more value.

LLM based AI is a tool, like so many before it, with a variety of applicable uses, to be sure - but to feed a beast that consumes our creativity and spits out uninspired reiterations at the cost of depriving millions of the ability to experience real stories is wrong.

It is the wrong choice.

At what point do we all agree that this constant tradeoff of more money for some and a less fulfilling and inspired life for everyone else is no longer worth glorifying?

When do we turn and say that our experiences, the act of creation, and the services and aid we can render to others is a greater wealth than all the money in the world?

We will always build new tools - but those tools should exist in service of enriching our lives further, not at the cost of degrading and destroying that which gives us fulfilment.

[natebrade @natebrade]

@ilylumii Legitimately works as a one off half hour special by itself it's so good

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

In 2015, shortly after spending $4.5B to acquire LucasFilm, Disney invested several tens of millions more into brand awareness and rehabilitation.

Coincidentally, at the same time, thousands of articles, videos, video essays, and meme pages appeared all at once with a single thesis: The Prequels were actually misunderstood masterpieces.

I mean it genuinely as just a statement of historical fact, that the only reason the Prequels are even spoken about today is this marketing agenda from Disney. And this turned out to be even better for Disney than they ever could've hoped, because this rehabilitation of the Prequels basically pulled a retroactive Empire Strikes Back Effect.

Let me explain a little...

I have long been of the opinion that Empire was the fulcrum of Star Wars—if it had not been the greatest sequel ever produced, Star Wars would have been an 80s fad that would have faded from most of memory by now. Maybe as big as Back to the Future is today; which isn't much.

If not for Disney's rehabilitation of the Prequels, the Disney Sequels would have had the same effect on Star Wars that Season 8 had on Game of Thrones: killing all conversation of it overnight.

The Disney Sequels were so bad that they made the Prequels look good in comparison. Combined with their 2015 marketing plan and the fact Gen Z and Gen A have been starved of quality film their entire lives, the Prequels now have a genuinely loving fanbase.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.

Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.

They stuck with him because he’s one of them.

Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.

If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.

Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.

He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.

And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:

For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.

Accountability is.

Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.

Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.

Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.

That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.

They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.

Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.

This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.

Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.

And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.

You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.

The alliance holds...because it has to.

That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.

And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

To their credit, the Founding Fathers always suspected a king-like tyrant would one day try to rule as personal dictator and use the powers of the presidency to live above the law.
But they never foresaw an entire branch of government abdicating oath in favor of partisan complicity, cravenness, and grift, and they certainly never foresaw algorithmic media producing a citizenry so manipulated by obvious deceit.

[Legendary Drops @ALegendaryDrops]

I love how tech today has nothing to do with advancement or innovation.

Nothing improves we just own less and pay more for inconvenient solutions to problems they create.