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Voiceover professional, comedy writer, podcaster, acclaimed game designer. 

[emmhauer]

[catasters]

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[travelersballad]

Free service with no ads: either the beautiful, regal library or similar collection of knowledge (e.g. wikipedia, internet archives, etc.) or the dastardly and nefarious service whose profit is in the form of collecting your data

[specialagentartemis]

Public libraries absolutely work on the “paid service with no ads” model. The money to pay for it comes from taxes. And a lot of town governments are REALLY resentful that they have to allocate tax money to pay for it. So if you want this free service to remain free and available, you need to make sure to be attentive to local politics! Vote in local elections and learn your mayor’s/select board members’/city council’s policies and call them and BOTHER THEM ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THE LIBRARY!

[thefragman]

moon's haunted

[herowyn]

5 0    Y E A R S    A G O

[madtechnomage]

Happy 56th anniversary of the Moon landing.

[aalgar]

This — one of my all-time favorites from The Onion — was apparently barely an exaggeration.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this ad has me so fucked up i can’t even decide what to be tired of

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

[teaboot]

Okay but I'm getting approximately 10 billion terrible AI old man pretty lady ads for "eighty percent of people were born in the wrong place" and "your energy belongs in X location" and I cannot for the life of me comprehend who could possibly be benefitting from this. Countries seeking additional labor? Travel agencies??? I'm so numb to the grifts I've stopped asking why

[ndnbutch]

yeah I gotta be honest man that sounds fucking awful

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[shamebats]

Cats getting caught doing crimes

[flipocrite]

it takes quite a bit of social intelligence for a creature to understand:

I know what I am doing is wrong

I know there is an activity that looks similar that is not wrong

If I am quick I can plausibly pass one off as the other

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

these cats are displaying remarkable theory of mind skills by not only registering that the humans can perceive them but actively trying to manipulate that perception! that requires one to be aware that other individuals have complicated interior thoughts of their own, to know that those thoughts are not always based on truth, and to quickly decide on the best possible “lie” for the situation. this is why I despise animal intelligence tasks based on obedience— some of the most clever moments stem from intelligent disobedience.

[mysterycat-official]

I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppet Show (1976-1981)

[thememedaddy]

[cozy2000]

time to post my favorite far side comic of all time

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

no fucking way

[liberalsarecool]

NAOMI KLEIN to SAM ALTMAN:

"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.

You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."

[gregorydickens]

This popped up in my FB Memories today. The pencil sketch was based on a pre-Elon Twitter Mermay piece from two months before. My submission for the monthlong mermaid art theme was a Wild West Sheriff. That idea ran out of steam for a potential comic, but what did develop, as I made this pencil sketch, became a Lady of the Lake in the Old West, and that became a cosmic expansion on the King Arthur legend. That story anchored my Outskirts anthology, and that led to the Nameless graphic novel sequel after a lot of research on Shackleton and South Pacific mythology. All from a goofy sketch for a social media trend.

I was back at the car dealership today, exactly nine years later, but I didn't get to sketch. I will later today though. Who knows what might come from that.

My stuff is online at www.robotwonderboy.com.

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[shubbabang]

[noodleddragon]

[thembocoles]

Aye! Relax.