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By “objectively badass” do you just mean like hilarious, re the chatgpt summer reading

i mmean thats a big part of it. its funny. but i also think it's genuinely awesome, just conceptually, to publish a summer reading list of fake books! i think it (whether intentional or not, clealry not in this case) comments quite sharply on the purpose of these sorts of articles, on the worth or lack thereof of 'journalistic integrity', on the decay of print media... as a work of found art it is a scathing critique with real teeth! as well as extremely funny

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I can see how ethnically ambigaus homer simpson functions as a critique of the conditions that created it, how does summer reading list do that? i guess its ironic that the person who generated a reading list could not be bothered to do any reading themselves. is there more to it than that?

like -- i think it is an indictment not only of the journalist, but of the publication (for this to make it to print requires genuinely negligence from multiple people) and moreover i think very acutely and cleverly (again, this might not be the intention, but this is the effect) makes the point that most of these 'reading lists' are inane space-filling frivolities that present a barely-curated list of the intersection between popular and prestigious in order to project a certain image of 'culturedness' that flatters the paper itself and its readers

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people need to learn about the read more feature:

you can store extremely long bullshit in here so i don't have to scroll for a mile

see how annoying that was to scroll through? you can save people the trouble!

here's some more

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this was a coded transmission concealing information about the positions of american nuclear submarines

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Appletastic Ice Lolly from Neopets. This one was the most challenging to draw. 💚🍏💚🍏

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Check out the bonus panel on the site!

SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

Buy this comic as a print!

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Creature, Heir of Realms Submission by Kafkaesque

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Living his best life

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i promise to shoot the man i accosted in the alleyway unless he gives me his wallet. he says "this is just like rokos basilisk". i say "what?", and the man says "ah so you don't already know. i know information which is dangerous to you, and may cause unquantified but large amounts of disutility to you if you know it. give me the gun or i will tell you this information". obviously i wouldn't believe him, except omega previously told me that my next victim would be right about everything he said. so im inventivzed to shoot him before he can speak, but a weighted average of all human beliefs implies murder will be punished severely in the afterlife (so the tiny probability any god is real doesn't cancel itself out across different gods). instead i lunge forward and hold a cloroform rag over his mouth, knocking him out. now i need only fear earthly reprisal, and my accomplice (who is my alibi, due to our distinct resemblance) is a perfect copy of me. since ive precommitted to kill myself if i get ratted out (as has he, since we're perfect copies) i know im secure. in a way he precommitted before he even existed, though since that idiot thinks he's the original he doesn't realize it. hey what if i could credibly predict that he would commit to other things before he existed. he could- oh goddamn it what a waste of cloroform. before i leave to begin bringing about the existence of a vindictive superintellegent ai i pull the wallet from the mans pocket- $0 dollars. just another night for me, just another night

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Travisiin Ghoul Submission by WillWeaverRVA

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cool thanks 👍 looking forward to it

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hard cider was invented when someone decided to make beer that tastes good instead of bad

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literally every music genre has at least one album that will absolutely change your life if you give it a shot