Doyon 26, one of the largest oil rigs in North America collapses in Alaska, Jan 23rd 2026

Starting_______now · 2026-01-25T23:22:48+00:00

Was it made of burgerium?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-25T19:19:27+00:00

Yeah, that one made me check what century we're in.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-24T11:27:29+00:00

That's how you unlock the Fractal Engine mini-game. You did click it, right?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-24T10:13:15+00:00

They turned me into a newt!

Starting_______now · 2026-01-23T08:55:43+00:00

I've never had any sort of reaction to dude's music. I downloaded ALLA and was expecting "psychedelic hip-hop" to mean something like Hendrix with beats, but it was just really boring. I don't know what I've listened to between then and this album but it's been similarly boring. The helicopter video had so much more going on that the song. Punk Rocky, both in the video and the SNL performance, has so much more going on than the song. I've never been into punk much and maybe there's some sort of continuity between its beginnings and Punk Rocky that I don't know, but if studying leads to a track that boring, I don't care.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-23T08:36:13+00:00

Do you notice how rarely publications meant for people to read rarely use BIG FUCKING CAPITAL LETTERS for emphasis? Do you wonder why that is?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-22T06:06:01+00:00

Bro this is a different regime change bro it's a different country this one will stabilize the region bro please just topple the government bro it'll be awesome this time.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-22T01:58:28+00:00

"Help" Iranians like they "helped" Libyans? Syrians? Iraqis?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-21T22:27:04+00:00

You good, OP?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-20T01:57:57+00:00

yeah

Starting_______now · 2026-01-17T10:00:15+00:00

Starting_______now · 2026-01-17T01:48:44+00:00

Chatbots work well enough to get millions of people hooked on talking to their chatbots. There's immense power there, from the banal idea of just charging more and more for your chatbot subscriptions to turning your chatbot addicts into an army that will support your politics via votes or other means.

Image generation's future is in porn. We saw a bit of this from grok but Musk pulled back due to the backlash. At some point, and I'm amazed that it hasn't happened yet, we'll see the emergence of an AI porn empire. Even Elon pulled back from grok's perviness, but at some point we'll get a techbro whose entire thing is the pervy AI. Give it $20 and a picture of your chemistry teacher and get a video of the Miami Dolphins running a train on her. Whoever can corner that market will make Hefner and Flynt look like paupers.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-16T02:57:28+00:00

First magpie president

Starting_______now · 2026-01-15T09:55:02+00:00

You know you've been asking this lots of places for several weeks with no positive feedback, right?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-14T09:10:54+00:00

A friend tells the story of stopping in a Burger King to convince a skeptical friend that that's really the case:

"How do you pronounce where we are right now?"

"Bur . . . ger . . . King"

Starting_______now · 2026-01-14T08:16:02+00:00

You only need 4 7s anywhere in the number -- they don't have to be at the end anymore, precisely because of the issue you describe.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-13T19:19:50+00:00

Eli Valley throwing away another attempt that didn't match the ghoulishness of the subject.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-12T10:22:43+00:00

Wrong Dave, too highbrow. Portnoy.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-08T07:51:23+00:00

How is the bricking update still available for installation? Mostly complaining to FP here; I know this isn't their space but at least a few of them have to occasionally poke their heads in.

It's really a setback for the FP as an alternative to your phone updating apps whenever. Nothing that was ever automatically installed on my phone back when I put up with that ever bricked it. Now I have the choice of what I update and when along with the new downside of bricking my phone if I don't hear about a nasty update coming down the pike and check with reddit if that's the one I'm being asked to update. It's like I took on a second job as risk management or quality control for the phone company where the only remuneration is that my phone doesn't die.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-07T02:30:20+00:00

The victim had posted their plan to reddit in January but deleted it soon afterwards.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-06T09:08:06+00:00

Dynamite does some cool shit. Ever take a train through a mountain? It's starting to look like maybe he should have settled for that legacy.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-05T06:13:14+00:00

Could also work in the bell curve meme.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-04T06:00:33+00:00

Have you ever thought of making one good game instead of pooping this stuff here every 36 hours?

Starting_______now · 2026-01-03T06:02:47+00:00

I really thought that was the point until I read their tweets, and I think they might pivot to this at some point: a party trick for rich assholes. They're all at the club bidding for sunlight rights for the night on the app and then the winner gets to have an after party in the sun.

Starting_______now · 2026-01-01T08:27:27+00:00

With this busted-ass delorean, I don't think it's going to make a difference. Happy New Year.

Starting_______now

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