#truthiness

[hanitje]

Christian Cage Obliterated Ric Flair Magnificently

[jasonborrowed]

We're fucking in the car, shooting heroine, saying controversial things just for the hell of it. Selling melanin, and then suffocate the black man, start with misdemeanours, and we'll make a business out of them, and we can find out the information, access all the applications that are hardening positions based on miscommunication. Oh, fuck your feelings! Truth is only hear say! We're just left to decay! When modernity has failed us, and I'd love it if we made it! - The 1975

[lastweeksshirttonight]

Remember that DVD set I found on eBay with old TDS and TCR episodes? I finally watched it!

Here's the packaging:

The individual packaging is really nicely designed and made me so nostalgic for this era of Comedy Central:

Each disc had two episodes of the show on them. I'm guessing these corresponded to their various Emmy submissions.

The episodes were from the 2005-2006 season, so no John, but delightful all the same. For starters, The Colbert Report disc has the first fucking episode of the show.

YEAH. THE FIRST EPISODE.

The Daily Show will always have a very special place in my heart, but man, The Colbert Report was something else. The character was basically fully realized from jump street. I'm so glad I have this DVD.

The Daily Show was also fun to watch - the first episode was a pretty standard TDS episode (to the point where I don'treally recall what was covered), but the second one dealt with Dick Cheney shooting someone in the face and was much, much more memorable.

Jon was so young!

In contrast, as my mom and partner both said totally independently of each other, Ed Helms has looked the same for about 20 years. (Paging @weirdlittleberry)

I also think literally every correspondent but Rob Riggle wore this tan trenchcoat at some point during TDS' run with Jon Stewart.

In any case, this was a great bit of physical media to add to my small but growing TDS/TCR/LWT pile.

[adventurechristianity]

How Authentic Are You?

So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another. Ephesians 4:25 It’s a good choice for the word of the year. “Authentic”. According to Merrian Webster, this is the word that best sums up what mattered most to people in 2023. This is the quality people were searching for. I wonder, did they find it? Our world has a big…

[feralchaton]

I did not come here to fix anything or anyone...

...all I came here to do was love.

~Kerry Khan

[abigailspinach]

AI

yikes

[calicojack1718]

Election 2024: Explaining America's Obsession with Biden So Old Using Cognitive Dissonance

It's been over ten days since Biden's "poor" debate performance and the country is still debating whether reelecting him is preferable to electing the felonious rapist who is bent on turning us into an oligarchy all because Obama made fun of him the WHCD.

SUMMARY: In an era of growing political polarization and eroding democratic norms, this piece delves into the cognitive dissonance that allows many to dismiss the very real threats facing American democracy. Through a penetrating examination of the psychological mechanisms at play, the author sheds light on how willful ignorance and entrenched biases sustain a dangerous collective denial. Drawing…

[rainbowpopeworld]

[jasonborrowed]

The 1975 - Love It If We Made It (Lyrics)

[lastweeksshirttonight]

Remember that DVD set I found on eBay with old TDS and TCR episodes? I finally watched it!

Here's the packaging:

The individual packaging is really nicely designed and made me so nostalgic for this era of Comedy Central:

Each disc had two episodes of the show on them. I'm guessing these corresponded to their various Emmy submissions.

The episodes were from the 2005-2006 season, so no John, but delightful all the same. For starters, The Colbert Report disc has the first fucking episode of the show.

YEAH. THE FIRST EPISODE.

The Daily Show will always have a very special place in my heart, but man, The Colbert Report was something else. The character was basically fully realized from jump street. I'm so glad I have this DVD.

The Daily Show was also fun to watch - the first episode was a pretty standard TDS episode (to the point where I don'treally recall what was covered), but the second one dealt with Dick Cheney shooting someone in the face and was much, much more memorable.

Jon was so young!

In contrast, as my mom and partner both said totally independently of each other, Ed Helms has looked the same for about 20 years. (Paging @weirdlittleberry)

I also think literally every correspondent but Rob Riggle wore this tan trenchcoat at some point during TDS' run with Jon Stewart.

In any case, this was a great bit of physical media to add to my small but growing TDS/TCR/LWT pile.

[katzenjammerd]

[jurph]

It may or may not have been true when it was written, in May of 2024... but this is going to get 10k notes when it turns out to work great.

[ceooftheshitshow]

Double edged sword.

[plantpirating]

"The road to hell is paved with poor fact checking." -- Tyler Hyde from That's Spooky podcast

[tnlnyc]

Gen AI Doom Loop

Since the rise of ChatGPT, the tech industry has been obsessed with the power of generative AI. While coverage has focused on the impact of generative AI on creative work, little has been written about its long-term impact on itself. How AI works At their core, tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Llama are advanced auto-complete systems. Looking at what is being typed, the AI systems guesses…