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This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
"The projectâ[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backersâis to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
THE GRINCH: and to all a good night!!! *five minutes later* CINDY LOO WHO'S MOM: hey can we talk? thanks for bringing back the presents and cutting the roast beast but - did you talk to my kid? THE GRINCH: uh, yes, uh, when I wa- CINDY LOO WHO'S MOM: okay so don't ever talk to my kid again
This should likely go in my little Bari at CBS thread but I just donât know what she thinks pulling a story two hours before air is going to do for her cause. The people who watch 60 Minutes for the journalism are the kinds of people who care about this shit, and the people who would cheer it donât!
people always laugh when bears run away from housecats because they're so much bigger but like. imagine you were in the woods & you ran into a weird little guy that looks kinda like you but like 1/5th the size & his head is shaped weird & he is running toward you full tilt yelling. what would you do
When Twitter first got popular, people really started talking about their "brands" in a new way. It was important to have a brand, your brand was more important than just about anything else. Fast forward to now and every media executive seems to have done a complete 180 on that
interesting experiment with going out of my way to be as genuine and respectful as possible when discussing something online because i think people on both sides are coming from a good place. however, the results of the experiment is that people treat you exactly as poorly as if you're hysterical.
i think one of the most embarrassing things you can do is try to do a quick little jog across the yard wearing basketball shorts but your cell phone is in your pocket and the pocket is really deep so it starts swinging around like crazy and pulling your pants down. don't ask me why
my cousin said "that's a cool shirt, is that a ship" and i said "yeah" and she said "what's the quote say" and i said "scott for scientific method, amundsen for speed and efficiency, but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for shackleton"
AI boosters are fine with this. They're fine with the child porn, they're fine with the fascist slop, they're fine with the environmental damage and the unprecedented theft. They're fine with all of it, because reading and writing their own emails is just too hard.
If you want to understand the Keynesian multiplier on government spending in a dirtbag way: a few hundred thousand dollars creates billions of dollars in oysters that are harvested and sold for no less than a dollar along with much more expensive cocktails. Thatâs so much Economy overall.
at every family gathering my aunt gets out her play medical kit for all the kids to play with and in it she has a bunch of empty pill bottles and eye drops bottles and i take them all out and hide them because it's dangerous to teach children that those are toys and the next gathering they're back
This headline is so funny. "How she did it" was being a screenwriter, already working in the industry, who had contacts who recommended her for the job. She's not some random fan who was plucked from obscurity to become a showrunner through the strength of her online posting or fandom.