the illinois enema bandit
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honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first

In our magical age, you get attempted assassins who think previous assassination attempts were staged.

Kafka’s Metamorphosis is called a major work of literature. Why? If it’s SF it’s bad SF. If, like Animal Farm, it’s an allegory, an allegory of what? Scholarly answers range from pretentious Freudian to far-fetched feminist. I don’t get it. Where are the Emperor’s clothes?

I cant believe all modern morals started 2000 years ago in one region of the world and before that, and outside that one location, nobody thought murder was wrong

Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious. After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness. Follow: @AFpost

20-year-old Stevie Wonder being an absolute beast on drums.

This white girl I know irl REALLY wants to be woke but also seems COMPLETELY unconcerned that every POC in a 50-mile radius fears being in her presence.

Robert Kirkman never loved that most characters in #Invincible were a bunch of white guys, so he pushed Prime Video to retcon the diversity issue. "Every time we introduce another character [in the comics], ‘Oh look! It’s another white male! Who knew?’" screenrant.com/invincible-pri…

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that an Israel supporter is morally opposed to due process of law


















