Resident Horror

teachers now lament that students can't read anymore, not even short articles, and how the judge and jury of the future are nonexistent. which means us spite-driven writers and insatiable fic readers both tackling 300k stories (instead of using bot summaries) will save the world. which also means extremely horny fandoms will take over entire legal systems and journalism #getready

So much of the French Revolution was horrific and bloody, but I cannot get over the royal family's 1791 escape attempt which unfolded like a Looney Tunes short. They all pretend to be servants to some made-up Russian countess, probably with fake accents and everything. They make absolutely no attempt to stay under the radar. Louis actually gets out of the damn carriage and starts chatting up random people at a rest stop. Fully convinced that they are in Olden Times in which no one is ever recognized, ever. Then the postman is literally like, "I'm sorry, but this guy is acting super sketchy and I'm pretty sure I have a bank note here with his face printed on it??"

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

I've been using Duckduckgo for about a year now and I'm fond of saying "duck it" when I'm not overly worried about being understood.

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

I hate this new use of the word LARPer, what does the noble Live-Action Role Play have to do with all this?

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

someone ran the pope’s 42k (!) long anti-ai manifesto - literally titled magnificent humankind - through a checker and the result said “100% human”. even as a critic of the church i gotta say he cooked with this one i had to smile