@DavidSalo More of a bad thing is always more of a bad thing.

These 4 tech bro douche canoes aim to 'disrupt' the publishing industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone.

Of course tech bros do not realize a good editor can take a book that's awful and make it a decent read, helping a writer get better along the way. "AI" isn't going to do that.

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-publisher-spines-aims-to-disrupt-industry-by-using-ai-to-publish-8000-books-in-2025-alone

@th3j35t3r Frankly I was at that stage on Nov. 6th, but then I've always been quick to tell authority to go fuck itself.

@feloneouscat This has nothing to do with "the budget" and everything to do with hamstringing the Fed so hard it will be unable to stop the avalanche of grifting/cutting of programs most Americans need to simply exist at this point. Which won't take much as the GOP has already done a pretty good job of cutting the Fed's Achilles anyway.

I'm a big fan of MST3K. The OG seasons, not the reboots. As I watch what's going on currently I have two lines from S4E6, Attack of the Giant Leeches, stuck in my head.
Servo, as a general comment:
"These guys are aggressively incompetent."

Crow, speaking as one of ^ said guys:
"Keep in mind, I'm intensely stupid."

They were in my head 2016-20 too, but not so loud as now.

@SmirkingRaven Most of them wouldn't pass the security check you do for a babysitter.

@th3j35t3r Mike ain't been "Mike" since Cus died, tho. He was still the scariest mother fucker on the planet for a while there, and I wouldn't want to meet him in a an alley while he's in a bad mood, but yeah.

@Razdawg22 Considering who owns Twitch, it's not exactly a surprising one.

Twitch are updating their rules & decided that LGBTQ+ is a "Sensitive social issue" & needs to be hidden behind a content warning.

Obviously this is bad for LGBTQ+ streamers & a slippery slope. Here's a petition to remove that bullet point you can vote on as a Twitch user.

#CoSoGaming #Gaming #Streaming #Twitch

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/933812-safety/suggestions/49038707-remove-sensitive-social-issues-bullet-point

@th3j35t3r I haven't bothered with WaPo since Bezos bought it, and I haven't been back to Twitter since the sale to Musk finalized. Deleted everything it would let me and signed out, never to return. Don't even miss it.

Thank Goodness You're Here (Multi, XPd on PS5) As a nameless salesman, slap your way through the fictional English town of Barnsworth and engage in many shenanigans with the inhabitants.
This game is so good. If you like Monty Python etc you owe it to yourself to pick this game up on whatever platform you have that it's available on. I can't recall the last time I laughed so much while playing a game. I even played through it twice, and might a 3rd time 👍 👍
#CoSoGaming
https://thankgoodness.game/

G4TV - Cinematech

The first ever episode of Cinematech. How many of y'all remember watching this back in 2002(April, to be exact)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGSphCD3zoM&list=PLoBvgILc1f5kTxGy8tCqpnMViY-jzWZT9

@th3j35t3r WTF happened to this WaPo? Oh, right, it got bought out.

@th3j35t3r You know what, dude? If you took this site "sub only" in some fashion, I'd pay it. I've let my WoW sub run on for nearly 20 years now and I absolutely do not play the game every month(shit I've skipped at least a year straight more than once). I do check on this place every day, tho.

Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today
This vid fairly perfectly captures the essence of the early 2000s. Also "Don't think I'll be here too long" sure did sit right with me at the time. Never figured I'd still be around 2 decades later.

#CoSoMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNdcBg3xC8&list=RDMM&index=20

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans

Pretty telling that this nearly 30 yr old song (side note, it's weird being the same age as "old" people) not only holds up, but is more and more on point every damn day.

#CoSoMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo&list=RDEMSCOvaN85sneWueWKn6xoLw&index=15

Men At Work - It's A Mistake

#CoSoMusic

https://youtu.be/I0AxrOUJ62E

@Kaysymmetry Know the feel. Partner is out of town til Sun. Left Weds. Talking to the cats don't cut it, heh.

It's late for me these days (aka damn, I'm getting old) but I'm not so old I don't stay up "late" some nights and listen to some shit from back in the day.
J. Majik - Mermaids (1997)
#CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kD2qbHPsas

@AlphaCentauri Frankly I'm surprised he's not already declaring victory. I will be shocked if he doesn't declare victory before the polls close on Nov 5th.