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99% of what you see are reposts.

[bowlby4]

[slipping-into-madness]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Joe Biden, or Don Hidin'?

[captain-price-returns]

State Department official calls for pre-crime approach to combat "far-left terrorists" to prevent "plots before they happen."

[republican-terrorists]

🤔

[ladytuarach]

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

C'mon everyone, say it with me.... H Y P O C R I S Y .. the hallmark of this administration.

The Trump administration has imposed a permanent 12.5 per cent tariff on Australian goods after accusing Canberra of failing to adequately police forced labour in its supply chains.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative recently announced tariffs ranging from 10 per cent to 12.5 per cent on imports from 60 economies, including the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom, after a months-long investigation concluded they had failed to prevent items made with forced labour from entering their production processes.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[tricky-pockets]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Tremendously comforting, really.

[saywhat-politics]

New York became the first state to ban construction of 'hyperscale' AI data centers, for one year, after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executi

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the construction of new "hyperscaler" data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year.

It is the first statewide data center ban in the U.S., though similar measures, also referred to as "moratoriums", are being considered by other states.

Public polling has shown a significant increase in opposition to data center construction as voters face soaring electricity bills, and fear the jobs impact of AI.

[depsidase]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

[depsidase]

[progressivepower]

Trump's Capital Gains Tax Proposal: These Americans Would Benefit

Fox host Larry Kudlow said Trump had "liked" two potential changes to the existing capital gains tax framework.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[juicetrump2]

Trump officials offer cities tens of millions for Memphis-style police surges – with conditions

DoJ to give $300m for enforcement surges in four cities, as long as they abandon progressive ideologies on policing

[salvatoregm]

Cover of the Year

[comeonamericawakeup]

Trump has no leverage over Iran. In his terms: they have all the cards.

The only thing he could offer them that would be of interest to them is his head or Netanyahu's head. The day will come when Iran bombs Trump properties overseas. None of this will be over until Iran exacts revenge on Trump. HATE endures in the Middle East. It is culturally taught and carries forward. Trump has no off ramp. He will end up capitulating with a deal far, far worse than what Obama had negotiated.

LOSER

[saywhat-politics]

‘Spits in the face of voters’: Hayes on the 'insidious' ads flooding primaries

“It is disingenuous, insidious, and fundamentally insults voters who actually care about the democratic process in voters choosing their candidates,” says Chris Hayes on dark money funding deceptive ads in key primaries.