Titanium King

Listen. I'm hungry for cookies. I want to build a time machine. I am unique in these things.

[depsidase]

[bestiolin]

catalina cheng

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

this could be us

[netscapeshawty]

baseball different from how i remember it

[qualitytimeswithqualitylads]

glad they added new maps to baseball

[heidelbro]

Sellers realizing that the value of a thing is what someone will pay for it

[monsterbutch]

happy pride to fat dykes specifically

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[bnprime]

so uh the way i think of it is thus: up until about 2024, the way to get the most profit was to please the most people and the majority of people want their gay friends and relatives to be happy. since 2024, with the new guy in charge, the way to get the most profit is corruption. this one guy. if he likes you, he rewards you; and if he dislikes you, he harms you. the switch from rainbow capitalism isn’t about public opinion. most people still want their gay friends and relatives to be happy. the jerks are just emboldened because the rule of law is over, and political corruption rules the day.

[filmphotofranz]

[enki2]

[lethalbutterfly]

That's a side quest. You're supposed to go find him.

[audhdspacewizard]

Or at least find his environmental storytelling skeleton along with a unique weapon or piece of armor.

[st-just]

'your You is stored in your body but mostly the brain. Ergo changes imposed on it can and will change the sort of person you are,' is something people will accept in principle and then just recoil from in basically every particular case.

I blame the widespread belief in an immortal soul.

[isuggestkillingyourself]

[tactfulsaboteur]

[psybomb]

Every time I see that last pic, I have to note that the funniest line is the one immediately after the highlight

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

Love that this alien arm is clearly just green bubblewrap. 70s prosthetics I love you

[circular-time]

Classic SF once again betrayed by a clear, static-free signal and a flat digital screen

This is how I remember classic Who and Star Trek, folks, with signal ghosts and scanning lines (but usually with more static/snow)

[sepdet]

Sharing this on my main because it appears from the notes that it's useful for some modern viewers.

You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.

I swear to you, despite classic Who using bubble wrap for years as one of its go-to materials that reflected light in interesting ways, we never realized that's what it was.

[warpsbyherself]

I remember when HD tv was first available back in the 2000s, my university had a random HD channel. I watched SNL on it and it was crazy to be able to see how flimsy the sets were and how caked on and flat the makeup was. Then you’d flip back to the normal channel and everything would look fine again.

[chekhovs-raygun]

they need to release like vintage-mode low-def de-stored versions of classic sci fi so you can see how the costumes and sets were supposed to look like.

[were--ralph]

they slayed

[crappycheese]

[bnprime]

isn’t that pineapple incredibly underripe?

[colorado-rockies-official]

bunny moment

[colorado-rockies-official]

the baseball crowd loves unexpected animals far more than the baseball game

[colorado-rockies-official]

you come into our house and say something so brave and true

[theconcealedweapon]

TW: Rape

Woman: "This man raped me."

Prison System: "He has his whole future ahead of him. We don't want to ruin his life."

Woman: "I've read about the horrors of how prisoners are treated and about how the system is designed to create criminals in order to use them as a source of slave labor. Prison needs to be abolished."

Prison System: "But, what about rapists?"

[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.