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Microsoft to power its data center investments by converting 60,000 employees into the little pods from The Matrix

Estonia’s new tourism ad living in my head all day long

This is true, and also I think Millennials lack an appreciation for how much better they were in 1996 vs 1982.

It was playing in one theater in my town last week, but only two showings per day because of length. I really wanted to see it this upcoming week but it’s gone from everywhere in a 50 mile radius at least.

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

In the 60s you got cool nightclubs and niche record labels because rich people needed business that lost some money to lower their taxes 90% marginal too rate was the Republican platform for Nixon. Also philanthropy

10% of the DNA Lounge

It makes me wonder if she even has a staff anymore. Surely someone around her would have said, "They're going to dunk on you on the Internet if you post that photo, Kristi."

I think the context makes this clip even funnier —the woman is Carolyn Swords, who was in the WNBA from 2011-2020 —the show premise is "pick a topic where you're an expert," she chose "basketball players" —Rob Lowe REPEATEDLY points out to the guy that she was in the WNBA —HE CHALLENGES HER ANYWAY

Science is amazing!

Goddamn they would be fucking launching an endless stream of TALAFREAKO merch out of a tee shirt cannon every day for the next three weeks if I was even within earshot of his campaign manager for ten seconds. What a gift to be given that sick-ass nickname by the worst guy alive.

expertly titled to make anthropologists go "oh god not another one— wait, literally bedouins? okay, I'm in"

there is absolutely nothing wrong with my M4 Mac Mini (probably the single best bang for my buck computer purchase i have ever made) and yet the new M5 Pro mini is whispering to me like its the green goblin mask

"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."

Husband: wait, what's the fanfic actually ABOUT? Me: It's just... there. Husband: ... Me: It's more like a textbook than a fanfic? Husband: ...??? Me: I literally cannot explain it any more than that. Just go look it up. Husband: but I don't WANT to perceive it with my own eyes

Things I have had to explain to my husband recently: - COVID-conscious lesbian bar - The rationalists - Snapewives - My Immortal (the fanfic)

Marriage is mostly about having a captive audience to share newly-acquired cursed information

they’re all on Bluesky, the Miami Vice appreciators app.

The discourse this morning is showing the reach of Gruber, whose opinions I generally esteem very highly, but on this one I do think he’s incorrect..

I understand the claim "the rise of AI is also one of the biggest facts in the world." Maybe there are 20 people whose conversations about AI are really critically important to that big fact. Maybe there are 200. Either way, I'm sure they're all on a group chat already.

The nice popular girls sat me down in the locker room and curled my bangs and put eyeliner on me like I was in danger of flunking Girl School without their help.

I did Odyssey of the Mind when it was still called “Olympics of the Mind.” I was the first female captain of my high school quiz bowl team. I stayed up to watch 120 Minutes on MTV so I could maybe catch an REM video. I am utterly immune to “you shouldn’t be here because not enough people like it.”

I never learned how to curl my bangs! I never liked a boy band! I ran into an acquaintance at a conference, and he told me I "looked comfortable"! POPULARITY TREMBLES IN FEAR BEFORE ME, FOR LO -- NOTHING I DO IS COOL

people are replying to this with their own misfit weirdo experiences of yore, and I LOVE IT

i will never care if bluesky is popular! i did Odyssey of the Mind! i took robotics in high school (and sucked at it!) i was on a Harold team at iO West! NOT iO. iO *WEST.* i am immune to popularity!!

Teaching intro to InDesign, have handy worksheets so students learn by doing, one student figured out the simple task, the others asked how he’d done it, he said “I actually read the worksheet instead of skimming it”, chaos ensued 🙃

By @quinnypig.com: “I said it years ago and it’s pretty clearly correct: web1: You are the audience web2: You are the product web3: You are the victim”

Started watching “East of Eden” and at the end of Episode 1, my wife asked if Cathy was a vampire and now I want to see John Steinbeck’s Vampire Chronicles.

i like the idea of will smith being an apex predator for chris rock and only chris rock, like he is the metroid to an x parasite