I think this is one of the most bleak things I’ve ever read.
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I think this is one of the most bleak things I’ve ever read.
It’s interesting that one of the signs of decline for Xitter was the ads becoming griftier and dodgier and apparently Instagram has decided that’s a winning model and now I get served tax fraud MLM ads every day and it’s great
Hard fucking no, what is happening to people
You’d think they could use the good PR
life liberty and the pursuit of divorced dads
I hate changing a versioning system like what is the actual point. Like in the 2010s when every company changed from decimal versions to full versions overnight and suddenly everything was v30 in about a year’s time. I wish they’d go back to 2 or 3 yearly updates, annual is too much lol.
Apple is like Drag Race in that it was something I followed obsessively for years and now have zero interest in only to find out they’ve made 1093 seasons since I stopped watching.
Someone at work this week said “you’re young, you know tech things” but apparently the new version of iOS is v26 and I’m still on v18 so turns out no Rhonda I’m not and I don’t
Walking the streets and at least three times saying in my head “wow that’s the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen”. Small slivers of almondine joy in the croissant of discontent.
Oh god it’s been on my list for aaaagees! Glad it’s good.
Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.
More like Adults of the Corn. This was incoherent. Awful writing, bad story, weirdly terrible effects (don’t fill someone’s mouth up with so much fake blood that they’re chipmunking). Boooooooo. Nancy Allen looks fucking great and was the only good thing.
It’s probably time to dump some of these Emmy categories that only have 2 or 3 shows in them OR ACTUALLY they should just start producing significantly more variety shows, yes that’s a much better idea
FABULOUS I’ll take 15 tickets
Some incredible writing across TV, but “Andor” truly deserved the win; we have two episodes to go but have had to take it slow because every episode is just devastating.
You have all let me down for failing to mention how gorgeous Nazeem Hussain is
Also Eva Mendes is every evangelical who read the blurb of the trump Bible and was like “yes I would die for this”
This is not good and then suddenly gets fucking great for about 10 minutes and then goes back to being not very good.
OF COURSE he was in Charmed! I think they may have almost exclusively cast Charmed from the children of the corn alumni. He certainly did, my word.
So far the only good part of Children of the Corn V is Casper van Doppleganger
If the Children of the Corn ever came for me I would simply tell them that I’m a child at heart and then they couldn’t murder me 💅🏻
She knows there’s bickies in my tummy and she _will_ get them out (with her razor sharp claws)
In lighter news: a YouTuber converted an image of a starling into an audio track and then played it to a starling who then sang the image back to him. www.iflscience.com/i-saved-a-pn...
A very timely arrival from the library
“He can’t be a fascist, HE’S GAY” gosh do I have a story for you
“But how can she be misogynistic, she’s a WOMAN?!” will never not make me laugh, absolute classic.
I love #LordOfTheRings
Jay and I have not stopped talking about it since we left the cinema. One of the most captivating and delighting cinema experiences I’ve had in a long time. I am GIDDY with joy.
This was absolutely SPECTACULAR. We laughed, we cried, we gasped… incredible action, horror, and heart. Can’t wait for Chapter 2! Go and see this in cinemas for the full experience!
This is why these people are getting wowed by ChatGPT et al: they are only concerned with form and manner and have no interest in content. Who cares if it’s wrong/violent/illogical, it *looks* and *sounds* right!
Our new herbed pita chips will have you saying OreganYES
So apparently Westfield no longer does validated parking if you go and see a movie unless you’re a “Westfield member”. Sorry, I’m not getting a subscription to a fucking *shopping centre*.
the white lotus is kinda the wario to barb & star if you think about it
Even Microsoft hates Teams www.windowscentral.com/software-app...
timely as ever
I’m really struggling with how some congratulates themselves for a sense of inevitability.
I think he’s bundling ubiquitous cameras and social media in with the killings, so both stop the self-congratulatory sense (?) Rather than breadcrumbs, I would suggest that he simply stop writing.
Non-whites congratulated themselves because they felt that social progress was inevitable and they should be… congratulated for that sense of inevitability?? But then the extrajudicial killings made them realise they shouldn’t be congratulating themselves?????
When you take you the digressions and qualifications: “For non-whites […] the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown […] thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama's second administration.” … fucking what??
“bonfire” so I wrote a kind of horny song? youtu.be/MC42XNX9Du8?...
oh no how terrible I hope the bullet’s ok
Also folks there are SO MANY BOOKS. Why aren’t we doing audio adaptations of Eva Ibbotson or Jasper Fforde or literally toilet graffiti instead of this.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE to see her for the monster she is and stand up for our community?!
I feel so fucking hopeless. We have highlighted JKR’s hatefulness for years but were told “she’s allowed to have her opinions”, and then she confirmed how she’s active finding anti-trans advocacy… and that still isn’t enough to stop people from working with her?!?!
I just… 😔
Enjoying watching the Apple event so we can scream “FASCIST BOOTLICKER” every time Tim Cook comes on the screen
Allslut (I’m very tired)
Cats stare into the abhissssssssss
She don’t want no snugs A snug a kind of touch she don’t want from me
We only need a new iPhone every 5 years at minimum, probably more like 8 - 10, this annual thing is too much.
Traditionally, the start of the warm season is marked by your cat no longer wanting to sleep in your bed.
MAGDALENE (fka twigs) is such a Kate Bush album
Challenger II: Safety Bugaboo
Every day, I wake up and my body screams “WHY HAVEN’T YOU REPRODUCED AND DIED?!”
It’s so crazy that superman’s kryptonite is kryptonite like what a wild coincidence
No but I do have his second cousin
POV: you’re about to be sold ground up Panadol and shiitake mushrooms at a music festival.
Maybe I’m crazy but having a fighter jet flying around in the middle of the day in the current global political climate is super fucking distressing.
“They said that stairs are “safe” but I pushed a wheelchair user down them and it hurt them a lot so I guess you just have to wonder whose side they’re on”
[newpassword] Password must contain at least one uppercase character! [Newpassword] Password must contain at least 14 characters! [Newpassword123] Password must contain at least one special character! 🤬 JUST TELL ME ALL OF THE RULES UPFRONT FFS
Holy shit folks, my seek profile is going OFF.
But as the world becomes more dangerous for us, yet again, we’ll see who the real allies are: those who are as scarred and bruised from the fight as we are.
And hey, we’re a victim of our own success: people can say they’re an ally without worrying for their own safety… but “having queer friends”, “knowing queer people” doesn’t make you an ally: we all know those straight people who claim our friendship while demeaning, insulting, and assaulting us.
But straight people have taken it and turned it into a tool of hollow corporate virtue signalling. I don’t know if you’re any safer than the people who don’t have a little sticker cause *I don’t know you*: show me community, show me solidarity, then we’ll talk.
I was doing a survey today and was stuck by how straight people co-opt queer initiatives to the point that they’re no longer legible to us. Allyship is a community moment, bestowed by we queers only on those truly deserving.
I'm depressed, not a MORON. From my special Weakness is the Brand! Watch more at mariabamford.com/specials or on Amazon Prime 🕶️
It’s so weird to see a March for Australia person say “we don’t want to become the Uk!” Me neither, mate… so what the fuck are you talking about while saluting a flag with a Union Jack on it?????
Are you sure you’re a dog cause those look like cataracts to me
Scooter Braun is the name of a 90s cartoon dog voiced by Matthew Broderick.
A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs. That's where she now is.
Hey boy are you a cliff edge on a public walkway? Because you look like you need a railing
Micah’s like “Jedediah you stupid bitch, She is Walking… no, She is STOMPING behind those damn rows and she’s mad as hell.” Absolutely werk you little psycho 💅🏻
“Children of the Corn II: Get Out of My Dreams & Into Micah”
Also Bob Harper is a fucking monster. “Why is a DOCTOR telling US how to take care of people’s HEALTH?!?” Go shit in your own mouth you fucking ghoul.
The producers of The Bigger Loser should be imprisoned, the trainers shunned (Jillian’s on her way, thankfully), and the contestants compensated for pain and suffering. It was a corrosive institution and a fucking disgrace and we should all be embarrassed that it ran as long as it did.
How frequently people throw up their hands and say “It’s not my fault there are customers! I’m just giving people what they want!” and pretend they’re helping people. But they’re not helping people: they’re just prolonging and reinforcing societal misery.
This immediately came to mind watching the Biggest Loser documentary when one of the producers said “We weren’t looking for people who were overweight and happy … we were looking for people who were overweight and unhappy.”
When I was a teenager, I was sent to a conversion therapist, and he asked me “Are you unhappy with being gay?” I told him I wasn’t and he said “Then this isn’t for you; I only work with people who don’t want to be gay.” At the time (I was a child!) it seemed so responsible… but it’s truly hideous.
An entire midwestern community dessicates and blows away into the summer winds, joining the dust of the parched earth so Chad’s pores can be 5% smaller as he explains race science to 13 year olds.
Give me your favorite Treachery of Images derivative meme. I’ll start.
How did I ever write a sentence without Word's autocomplete?!
This is reinforced by employee sentiments: employees report greater trust in generic tools such as ChatGPT, often using them even when enterprise and specialist tools are available.
The report also found "shadow AI" is a significant part of the Ai economy (90% of employees surveyed indicated that they use LLMs regularly, compared to only 40% of companies purchasing an LLM subscription) and suggests that organisations can learn from this usage to inform procurement procurement.
Chatbots are the most popular and most successfully implemented but largely fail to transform businesses as "[m]ost GenAI systems do not retain feedback, adapt to context, or improve over time". In summary: "adoption is high, but transformation is rare".
The 5% of companies that have had success have focussed on targeted use of learning-capable systems in specific processes, such as automated outreach/follow-up with customers; despite this, back-office automation remains the best ROI despite the largest investment still being in Sales & Marketing.
Futurism reports "researchers at MIT [...] found that a staggering 95 percent of attempts to incorporate generative AI into business so far are failing". Futurism article: futurism.com/ai-agents-fa... Report from MIT available here: mlq.ai/media/quarte...
Incredible turnout for justice across Australia… but what do the cops have to say about it?! NSW estimate: 100k Cops say… 10k Vic estimate: 100k Cops say… 10k Qld estimate: 50k Cops say… 10k Come on guys it’s a little TOO obvious you’re stealing each other’s homework! apple.news/A23DC0hZfRRy...
This breaks my heart. A survey of UK parents found: - 41% of said they read frequently to their children aged =<4; down from 64% in 2012. - 36% of parents with children 5 - 7 years old said they regularly read to their kids. - 40% of survey respondents agreed that reading to their child is fun."
Also every damn haircut in this movie is a federal crime. Despite that, it is still a lot of fun, and some of the moments towards the end are quite beautiful. Truly a bizarre jumble of ideas.
It’s Fridayn De Palma! Jumping into the new millennium with the hot mess of “Mission to Mars”. Gosh this movie is a MESSSSS. Every important story point is jumped over, presumably to make time for the glacial action scenes when NO ONE DOES ANYTHING THAT MAKES SENSE.
Gary Sinise is like if Steve Buscemi and Tony Goldwyn had a baby.
*troopers open.spotify.com/episode/0kgY...
Another great episode of “What Went Wrong”, about “Starship Troppers” I remember seeing it the first time when I was 15/16 and, not being a huge action fan, I just ADORED how camp and incisive it was; I find it bizarre that so many people didn’t (and apparently still don’t!) recognise the satire???
A great collection of some incredible stories: it reminds me of the promise of the internet 10 or 20 years ago. It makes me sad that all of these communities are volunteering their time and money to contribute to a for-profit company, who could just paywall it or shut it down tomorrow.
Rest in piss you fucking ghoul! ❤️ #JamesDobson
Honestly…!
