This is sort of OT, but since we discuss race science and dogwhistles so much:

A jeans manufacturer has put out an ad featuring Sydney Sweeney and is saying “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans”. People are interpreting this as a racist dogwhistle (it is). Comedian Akilah Hughes cooked up this glorious parody to kick off a twitter thread:

https://xcancel.com/AkilahObviously/status/1950224586278154577#m

I don’t know how to parse this and choose not to learn

mating press

Dunno if this term has ever come across their desk before, boss

Please self immolate

Grapefruits have another function, besides grapefruiting???

LBTM

Gosh.

“DOGErs aren’t that bad! They are just bad as the gain-of-function researchers that definitely invented COVID-19 and Super AIDS, something that definitely happened and isn’t a far right conspiracy theory! Which I wouldn’t believe anyway, because I’m a morally superior centrist! (except tee hee I actually parrot the right all the time!)”

Piper doesn’t deserve the privilege of having an opinion.

I cannot speak from experience, but I imagine having, raising, and face-slapping 4 (soon 5) kids is going to have some kind of toll on your general well-being.

Edit: also shit troll. Oh, you wear cosplay for media appearances? How anti-left. How will I ever recover

It’s not eugenics, it’s just selecting for Good Genes!!! Such as skull bigger

That couple update: That couple are being platformed again, this time on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Exactly, plus there’s no shortage of bad shit Meta has done to the youth, this is a stupid reach.

that’s what happens if your computer is a von Meowmann architecture machine

tangential: reminds me of this stupid thing that I saw like 10 years ago that I have recreated for y’alls viewing pleasure. Feel free to insert whatever narrative you like as to how I encountered the image on the left.

Another Oglaf reference???

this is great, but now I’m sad

somewhere out there, there’s a writer who really likes the em dash, the word “delve,” and answering questions with a one-word hyper-chipper affirmative, followed by three sentences of people pleasing. He can’t get a job because he keeps being accused of using AI

Zima Blue

Didn’t know it was something readable! I just know it as an episode of Love Death + Robots. It was a standout episode in an otherwise pretty boring first two seasons.

kinda related but wouldn’t it be fun to believe that LLMs were invented by Big Em Dash as a conspiracy

Ok so in arabic it’s exactly how this guy wants it

reminded me of this

Gonna take a wild guess that enough people have tried this joke to the point where they’ve added custom code or lines in the system prompt about it: