For heaven’s sake, this is plain white text. Are we, as a people, so far gone that we cannot even take the extra step to add the plain white text with 10px drop shadow to the image after it’s generated? Surely a human must be involved at some point of this process - even if only to collect the ill-gotten gains - that can identify whether or not their nefarious trap is baited with brazen gibberish. Surely.

kinda disappointed it’s not a strandbeest with one of those litter-picker-upper sticks taped to the front

Man, fuck this horseshit.

This is a Bat-Terry!

It used to be serious. It still is, but it used to be, too.

Man, that “was” really got my hopes up for a minute.

Search Engine Optimization. Basically gaming search engine indexing algorithms so that your content appears more “relevant” (read: crammed full of as many keywords as possible) and thus higher up on search results, usually at the expense of having, you know, actual content worth reading.

I use uBlacklist with this filter and that generally keeps the repeat offenders at least out of image search, but clearing out every SEO-spam print-on-demand mimc-site was already a game of whack-a-mole before consumer LLMs became a thing; I imagine now it’d be like playing whack-a-mole with a hydra. Still, it does at least help.

The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.

somehow, inexplicably, “Down Under” by Men at Work.

You couldn’t smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe…! I lost my train of thought.

as performed by 😭s 4 😱s

I have an associate’s degree from a community college that rebranded their “general studies” program to the “arts and sciences” program to fudge their numbers for a bigger STEM endowment, so… do I just wait for them at the airport, or what?

My class was set to graduate right around the time the pandemic hit and a lot of people ended up graduating late because the school literally couldn’t offer the classes they needed to finish their degree. Anyone to whom your date of graduation is actually relevant likely isn’t going to bat an eye at anyone who was in college within the last 5 years graduating a couple months late.

And, of course, there’s that old stand-by moral of “the only reason it seems like all your peers are doing better is because the ones in the same situation as you aren’t going on social media to brag about it.” So don’t rely on that as a metric too heavily.

Honestly, if I’m the defense, this has gotta be awesome, right? Now, I’m not a lawyer, but I have watched Boston Legal twice, so that’s basically the same thing, and what I’m hearing is these people want to get up on the stand and show the jury a video which either:

A) to the particularly inattentive, shows the victim clearly alive, or

B) demonstrates that even video evidence can be completely fabricated from whole cloth, and the opposition is more than capable of doing so to serve their own interests

Barring the staggeringly unlikely event that the defendant goes full-on Perry Mason Perp and outright says “hey, sorry I killed you, man” to the hologram, this seems like a pretty sweet deal.

inevitable syntax ambiguity aside, “deskill-ling” would be a good term for someone who has been de-skilled

nah, see, you got

1. self-aggrandizing unelected bureaucrat
2. intentionally sabotaging government programs to make his own vanity project look better
3. blind obsession with deeply-flawed and barely-functional technological monstrosity
4. claims sole credit for his program’s achievements despite, at best, hiring the guy that hired the guy that hired the guy to build the schematic that some other guy gave him
5. definitely blackmailing his boss
6. barely committed to his administration’s political agenda beyond whatever inflates his own ego
7. nazi cosplay
8. not a real face

dude’s not Vader, he’s Tarkin. Vance is the moody teenager from bumfuck nowhere who suddenly started sucking the spiteful old warlock’s dick despite years of going on about how much he hates his whole deal, likely screwing over his wife in the process, making him Vader. and I guess Obi-Wan is Pope Francis because Vance definitely killed him.

How much food and what is it?

…Did we mention it doubles as a convenient dumping ground for mob snitches?

in case you want to self-host your own algae, I guess

“Eat your dice, Brennan!”