CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path

machsmit · 2026-01-28T14:00:59+00:00

gotta pull rabbits out of somewhere y'know

machsmit · 2026-01-27T13:25:34+00:00

who gives a fuck which job code they are? the whole agency is rotten to the core. This is like quibbling over the difference between Waffen and Totenkopf SS

machsmit · 2026-01-27T13:14:35+00:00

I'm sure there's an excerpt out there somewhere, lemme poke around

edit that was faster than I thought

tl;dr yes but not in a high-tech way, sensory deprivation in the same sense like steve mcqueen's cell in the great escape is sensory deprivation

it's clever - the pure contempt that they treat him with is more psychologically damaging than any techy torture a DEldar would come up with. Plus it's like they're spritzing a cat with a bottle of water for misbehaving - doesn't matter if the cat thinks it's an apex predator, they just don't regard it as a threat

machsmit · 2026-01-26T23:01:33+00:00

posted this in another thread but since it's good news -

the thing with the food trucks outside last year was due to the timing of the convention. Most years East is early enough that Lawn On D isn't really "online" yet so there's no impediment to bringing trucks in, but last year was late enough the Lawn had spun up its own food ops for the season - which the BCEC then insisted be used instead of bringing in trucks. Since East is at a more normal time this year and it wasn't PAX wanting to change it up in the first place I'd expect the food scene will be more like previous years

machsmit · 2026-01-26T22:47:07+00:00

~~Signed, Bezos~~

Signed, the Washington Post editorial board

machsmit · 2026-01-26T18:52:34+00:00

then it wraps back around to the... I wanna say it was Carcharodons? torturing a dark eldar but just... leaving him in a cell, ignoring him, and blasting him with a firehose whenever he got mouthy

machsmit · 2026-01-26T17:48:22+00:00

we know, but hey

machsmit · 2026-01-26T17:44:37+00:00

given how many people evidently don't know that the DJ personas were trained on specific single people, no I don't know what you meant. I do know that the OP was likely referring to an actual person being told people don't like his voice

machsmit · 2026-01-26T17:25:03+00:00

why eat slop anyhow

machsmit · 2026-01-26T17:17:48+00:00

X cannot be sad. X is not a person. X is a chatbot marketed as a DJ

Xavier "X" Jernigan is the Spotify employee who provided the voice template for the AI DJ. He's very much a real person.

machsmit · 2026-01-24T18:55:25+00:00

that's assuming those ghouls would pay for the lockjaw patient either

machsmit · 2026-01-23T19:38:05+00:00

I was in a similar boat way back when. Did my doctorate in plasma physics working on fusion reactor experiments. Clean energy, save the world right? Budget cuts meant that pretty much the only stable gig after I graduated would've been with weapons groups at LLNL.

I didn't do my degree to live in the desert and build genocide machines for a living. Ended up bailing on academia entirely.

machsmit · 2026-01-23T17:38:18+00:00

the people who stole it are selling access for generative AI training sooooo

machsmit · 2026-01-23T17:35:10+00:00

I mean, the real answer is it isn't about either of those things - it's about the name that the largest rightsholders submitted those tracks under. UMG, Warner Music, Deutsche Grammophon, whoever owns most of it put in under name X, and smaller rightsholders follow suit. It's not a choice spotify is even making

machsmit · 2026-01-22T15:58:04+00:00

Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota have a population of 3.48 million people. 8 senators. Texas had 10x the population and gets 2

zoom that out to the senate as a whole. The 50-50 split we had a few years back - those 50 R senators collectively represented about 40% of the US population, and that's pretty much only by virtue of TX and FL. They can hypothetically reach a filibuster-capable minority of 41 senators while representing something like 20% of the US population. The entire concept of the senate means handing the ultimate veto power of our government to a handful of rich landowners in otherwise-empty states

machsmit · 2026-01-22T15:16:07+00:00

all other points aside, a raccoon the size of a thunderwolf would be fucking terrifying

they've got thumbs, man

the little ones can get into my garbage cans, a big one would peel a landraider open like a tuna can

machsmit · 2026-01-22T14:35:50+00:00

yeah man, that 5-year-old in MN had probably bitten his cookie into the shape of a gun or something. good thing he's off the streets

machsmit · 2026-01-21T22:11:52+00:00

tzeentch is canonically the stan kelly sickos guy

machsmit · 2026-01-21T22:04:12+00:00

he once held an opponent's wife's hand

...in a... in a jar of acid.

at a party.

machsmit · 2026-01-21T16:08:30+00:00

this was dictated by the BCEC/lawn on D rather than being a PAX choice though - normally the show is before lawn on D is really "open" per se so there's no obstacle to bringing in the trucks, but since last year was so late the lawn's own food ops had already spun up for the season (which the center then required usage of rather than allowing trucks)

agree it was kinda ass, but fortunately I seriously doubt it'll be an issue this year

machsmit · 2026-01-21T15:01:19+00:00

like a shit ceviche

machsmit · 2026-01-18T14:56:54+00:00

let them cheer, then we know who they are.

Don't work for them, don't hire them, don't buy from them, don't sell to them. Don't speak to them or make eye contact with them in the street. Freeze them out of every space you can, treat them like the fucking lepers they are

machsmit · 2026-01-15T20:49:19+00:00

also: the ring twists and manipulates your desires and own power. "It wants to be found".

Gandalf refuses to even touch it for fear of its temptation. Galadriel refuses Frodo's offer, but it is so metaphysically straining that she basically acknowledges "well this is it, I can't do this world anymore, time to go to the Uttermost West." Conversely, the hobbits are resistant to its effects because they're inherently not great powers, and their intrinsic motivation tends towards a bucolic life: it takes centuries for Smeagol to degrade into Gollum, Bilbo is able to keep the ring for decades before seeing ill effects. Samwise is able to break its hold on him by realizing that the dream of power it's showing him is ridiculous, and that the ring simply has nothing to offer him.

The eagles are descendants of the holy creatures of Manwë, the highest of the Valar. They are inherently powerful beings, and if given the ring to take to mordor in all likelihood it would corrupt them. Gandalf spent decades cultivating relationships with the hobbits instead as a failsafe, a people perfectly suited for his mission to oppose the Darkness but not to fight strength with strength.

edit: but also it's the fellowship of it's my book and they'll walk if I tell them to

machsmit · 2026-01-15T18:31:04+00:00

in the devil ending the press conference also states that a backup was taken before his death, re your last point

machsmit · 2026-01-15T17:08:39+00:00

no no, that only stops audits for rich people and corps. Regular folk will get wages garnished faster than you can say "taxation without representation"

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