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"They trauma dumped on me" ...you mean your friend talked about something difficult in their life?

Looksmaxxers have recognized the unfairness of a society which enforces a hierarchy based on immutable aesthetic differences but instead of taking that to its logical conclusion (fight for social justice), they've taken it to its illogical conclusion (hit yourself with a hammer)

You forget how old world leaders are until you read something like this

I cannot believe this just happened again.

victor wembanyama: I don’t expect many American fans to understand, but my time at the monastery was as much about what i left behind as it was about what i absorbed. Two weeks, no meat, for example, difficult here, no? josh hart: Yooo pause 😂 chet holmgren: what is u talmbout

I still can't believe I just saw a 7'5 guy take a pull-up 30-foot game-tying three. This is what it must've been like to see a movie in color for the first time.

@SarahFPoetry @metal_gifs @la_leere symbolism to question national mythmaking, bonus for slums city seedy underbelly desperation etc. often they're still talented authors! and the originals are still classics. but it does box in alot of brown/asian authors to having to mold their style to be more rushdie or roy etc

@SarahFPoetry @metal_gifs @la_leere unfortunately a lot of the genre now sounds similar partly bc of the same incentive structure that won this story an award: literary gatekeepers box in writers by overwhelmingly rewarding a specific style of magical-realism class/caste/religion postcolonial lit that use religious

the first two paragraphs of this obviously AI-generated story contain the character name "Vishnu Muhammad" and a nominally trinidadian woman saying "the grove ain't forget", on top of a few facially incoherent metaphors. racist judges going "well that's just postco lit" lol

I’m beginning to understand that many of you use the word “cancelled” to index the much more complex social process we used to call “falling out of favor”

@MediumReginald @la_leere it still wouldnt tho. "hindu deity name muslim name character symbolizing contradictions of the nation post partition" etc etc is the Most self-exoticizing indian lit fic gimmick. its not a name paired together by accident, its it trying to sound like a genre but lacking subtlety

@la_leere Ok but with human intentionality behind it a character named Vishnu Muhammad would whip

@metal_gifs @la_leere the god of small things has very densely packed sensory imagery in sentence fragments where the stimuli overload feels like the suffocating humid muggy buzzing tropical sticky air and repression secrets unsaid rules culture. but thats with intent, to match its atmosphere/themes

@metal_gifs @la_leere i dont think metaphor density is inherently an issue, this story was clearly prompted to be in the style of the god of small things by arundhati roy which is densely packed with imagery and sentence fragments. its more the metaphors dont have thematic intent or hold up to thought

@SurlyTemple_666 @la_leere hindu deity name muslim name is a common gimmick within indian lit fic to groan about so the mistake isnt AI rowlinging two brown names from different cultures together (next word pattern would actually try do the opposite), its it trying to repeat the tropes and lacking subtlety

@la_leere So AI conflates a Hindu diety with the founder of Islam? Well, Trinidad 🇹🇹 is a bit of a mix anyway

I am dying, I have died.

bro you're a such fake give-uper i saw you persevere time and time again even when you thought there was nothing worth fighting for. i'm proud of you bro. i truly believe in you.

But red ISN’T the “game theoretically correct” position when the other players are humans, a species known to be far more tribal and prosocial on average than rationally self-interested. So the entire premise on which red makes sense, is based on ignorance.

Blue has won the poll every time, in the long run, since Grug first gave Og’s family some of his berries because Og twisted her ankle

we praying for donte divincenzo not that fat orange pedophile

Within 10 seconds of meeting an autistic person, strangers rate them as awkward and lose interest in getting to know them. Show those same strangers only a written transcript of what was said, with no audio or video, and the bias completely disappears. That finding came from a 2017 study at the University of Texas at Dallas, led by psychologist Noah Sasson and published in Scientific Reports. The bias came entirely from how autistic people sounded and looked. For 40 years before that, scientists had been treating autism as a brain that couldn’t read other people. Diagnostic manuals listed it as a “social communication deficit.” When communication broke down, the autistic person was the broken link. That whole frame has been coming apart over the last decade. The replacement is called the double empathy problem. Damian Milton, an autistic researcher, named it in a 2012 paper. When autistic and non-autistic people don’t understand each other, Milton argued, both sides are missing something. Autistic people don’t always read non-autistic people right, and the reverse is just as true. The breakdown belongs to both sides. Catherine Crompton at the University of Edinburgh tested this with a telephone game in 2020. She lined up 72 adults in three kinds of groups: all autistic, all non-autistic, or mixed. The first person in the chain heard a story, then passed it down to person 2, then person 3, all the way to person 8. The all-autistic groups passed the story along just as accurately as the all-non-autistic groups. The mixed groups lost the most details. People in the mixed groups also rated each other as feeling less connected. In 2025, Crompton ran the whole thing again across Edinburgh, Nottingham, and UT Dallas with 311 participants. Nature Human Behaviour published the result. Same outcome. Brett Heasman at the London School of Economics looked at families in 2018. He found that autistic people could usually guess what their non-autistic relatives thought of them, even when they disagreed. The non-autistic relatives, meanwhile, kept overestimating how self-absorbed their autistic family members were. The relatives were the ones missing things. About 5.4 million American adults are on the autism spectrum. For most of their lives, the official story said their wiring was broken. The newer evidence puts the breakdown in a different place: between two brains trying to understand each other.