Awwwww Yeah vol. 201

 There are, of course, many types of criminality and abuse that happen in and around the adult industry (which we've covered extensively), but this is true about every industry. Children as young as six work in dangerous mines in order to extract the minerals that power our smartphones. As of at least last year, consumer goods from Apple, Microsoft, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony, and others are being manufactured by re-education camp prisoners in China, according to an in-depth report by an Australian think tank. Chicken and meat packing plants are rife with abuse. Abuse and criminality are core features of consumer capitalism, but it's companies like Pornhub that are cut off from VISA and Mastercard. Not Apple.

OnlyFans 'Suspicious Activity Reports' Mostly Show that Banks Hate Sex Work

#gorenoise vol. 59

 The video of a father holding the severed head of his daughter as he nonchalantly walks down the street has sent shockwaves around India on Thursday, a mere four days before International Women’s Day.

Sarvesh Kumar, from Hardoi’s Pandetara village in Uttar Pradesh, had thought it fit to behead his 17-year-old daughter over an alleged love affair she had with a man he disapproved of. In the video, he is matter of fact. There is no guilt or grief, just a practical narration of the events.

At a certain point in the video, he sets the severed head down on the ground. The pony tail on the girl’s head hangs limply; her eyes are closed. “I left the body in the house,” Kumar tells the man filming the video. He gives out the name of his daughter and the name of the man she was allegedly in a relationship with. He proudly explains how he killed her, and why. The man interrupts the narration twice to answer phone calls. He cooperates with the police when they search him, assuring them that “there’s no weapon on me.”

Father Beheads Daughter in One of the Most Dangerous Places for Women

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 340

 Over the past couple of days, right-wing media has obsessed over the decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to stop publishing six obscure books due to blatantly racist and offensive imagery, claiming this is just another example of the “woke” left “canceling” the past. Lost in the discussion, however, is the fact that it was Dr. Seuss’s own foundation that decided to discontinue the books.

“They are banning Dr. Seuss books,” Beck growled. “How much more do you need to see before all of America wakes up and says, ‘This is fascism!’ This is fascism! You don’t destroy books!” (The books, of course, have not been banned. The publisher is just not going to print any new versions of the six specific books, similar to when record labels take albums out of print or, say, Disney puts select films back in the “vault.”)

Prior to the Dr. Seuss kerfuffle, conservatives lost their collective minds over Mr. Potato Head, falsely believing that Hasbro was getting rid of the gender identities of the brand. The toy company, instead, is just renaming the overall brand Potato Head, while Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head dolls will remain available.

‘This Is Fascism!’: Glenn Beck Has Absolute Meltdown Over Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss

Negation Aspiration vol. 270

 

The Only Good Memes Left Are Those Made in Dreams

Awwwww Yeah vol. 200

 the drama has a robot protagonist at its centre, played by Jacob Erftemeijer, who travels through nonsequitur scenes with the air of a glazed, modern-day Frankenstein, wearing the platform shoes of a classic zombie. His master, Viktor (just as in Mary Shelley’s story), has died and he must contend with the human race alone. He meets mostly sultry, suggestive women who moan, gyrate, and throw themselves at his feet. It is strangely reminiscent of a middle-aged male fantasy, but with clunkier chat-up lines. “I wish my binary self had a body like that,” he says to one woman. He tells her she has lips like “warm honey” and says: “I’ll make love to you all over your body.” Another scene features the robot with a man who drops his trousers and tells him, antagonistically: “You’ve got a finger in my butt.” They stand facing each other on an almost bare set and the scenario has touches of Beckett, in its starkness, and Pinter too, in its unspoken power battle. But the dialogue ends up repeating itself and just sounding absurd.

Questions on life, companionship and mortality are voiced but they seem like emotionless musings with no sense of drama, depth or story, and the robot moves on from one surreal scene to the next, as if in a bad dream.

On the scene, like a sex-obsessed machine: when a robot writes a play

In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer’s imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness – but is mostly obsessed with sex

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 339

How and where she lived on the internet mattered more than how and where she lived in reality.

‘Nobody Listened To Me’: The Quest to Be MTG

All Marjorie Taylor Greene ever wanted was someone to pay attention to her.

NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 134

 

‘Drawing Monsters’: ‘Hellboy’ Creator Mike Mignola is Getting His Own Documentary [Trailer]