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What a time to be alive

So this happened.

on the topic of Dirty Pair, the opening for the OVA has a guitar riff that sounds a lot like Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

Failure to vote for Israel at Eurovision is a sign of grave alarm and apparently warrants a Senate investigation in Australia. Beyond parody at this point. They already eroded their free speech laws to protect Israel. Next: mandatory voting for Israel in song competitions.

Number One from Sonic R but it's a late 80's r&b ballad

david rudnick with some truth about the criticisms of the rollout of popular platform-mediated ai music culture. if you’ve been raised in music hacker culture, you forget since 2023 the mainstream gets a different version Music hacker culture is our fav— everyone’s learning new skills, collaborating IRL, excited to see what everyone else makes. people are sharing open source code and building off of each other. They’re pushing themselves to achieve and invent what no one has. They’re here to discover something new about the reality and experiece of music. There’s a lineage of work. Ppl who taught others. Ppl who built off of each others’ work. And it’s a good time. The legendary moments and memories: the hackathon project that was performance art. The algorave dance party. The 3am cipher. The burn installation. The european homie tour. The jam session. Etc. It’s alive, thriving. Remember the mainstream is not having this experience.

2020s ad: You can finance a burrito using A.I. 1994 Smirnoff ad: What if a penguin had that shit on

god what a bleak chart

New trailer for "Jaadugar" anime series. Directed by Naoko Yamada & Abel Gongora at Science Saru studio. Premieres on July 4 with a 1-hour special featuring both episodes 1 & 2.

Quem diria que forçar anúncios a cada 15 minutos faria os jovens procurarem opções sem anúncios

Sonny Rollins was the last surviving musician from “A Great Day in Harlem”, the iconic 1958 photograph by Art Kane that brought together dozens of jazz legends in Harlem.

@TierZoo So he becomes a fascist because of cuckoldry paranoia? I guess that’s historically accurate to the real world.

One of the tragic things about Revenge of the Sith is that they cut out half of the entire reason Anakin turned to the dark side. He turns on the jedi because he wants to save Padme, but in that moment he is still doing what he believes is necessary to save his wife from certain death. What actually seals his fate and *causes him to turn away from everyone, even those he loves* is seeing Obi-wan arrive on the ship with Padme, because to him, it confirms that they are having an affair. But why? Is that really all it took to get him to doubt his wife loves him? Showing up on a ship together? No, the reason he calls her a liar and shouts "YOU'RE WITH HIM!" before nearly killing her is that there's an entire subplot of the film that was cut. In this subplot, Padme is secretly setting up the beginnings of the rebel alliance. She has figured out that Palpatine is an evil dictator and wants to remove him from office. She doesn't tell Anakin about this, aside from vaguely hinting at it when she says "have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side". Palpatine figures out what Padme is up to, but instead of directly cracking down on the rebels, he uses the fact that Padme is keeping a secret from Anakin to drive a wedge between them. Anakin knows *something* is up with her, but not exactly what. Palpatine exploits this by implying on multiple occasions that Padme is having an affair with Obi-wan. He tells Anakin that this is why he was kept off of the council. From Anakin's POV, Obi-wan is keeping him down, stealing his girl, preventing his ascent to Master (and from accessing secret info that only masters are allowed to read), and even stealing his valor by taking on General Grievous alone despite being the less powerful jedi. And the Jedi Order is enabling him to do so. So, when Obi-wan shows up on Mustafar with Padme, Anakin "realizes" that he has betrayed and killed children to protect someone who didn't even love him. He's lost everything and been played a fool. Palpatine seemed to be the only person in the universe who wasn't lying to him and trying to keep him down. Or so he thought.

I finally made it to WAFFLE HOUSE. The staff are always friendly, and when I asked if they would sell me a menu, they sold me one for $5. Next time, I’ll be back at 3 a.m. for fight time. #WAFFLEHOUSE

you do not hate AI enough. it is a vampire that will in short order prey upon all but the very richest among us. it’s a fundamentally anti-human technology. as you ask ChatGPT for cooking recipes, we slouch towards Gomorrah.

those who cosplay for clout will never understand pure joy of having a ~30 minutes convo with a stranger after being recognised or getting little stuff for free because they just THAT GLAD you know their favorite thing too!!!!

2007 ad for online retailer Robert's Anime Corner Store, which opened in 1997 and still operates today

@OtakuPrintArchv Robert's Anime Corner Store is genuinely impressive for how long it lasted! They were advertising heavily in otaku mags around that time, so I was really happy when I pulled up the website to see it's still around.