Jimmy Carr sorry for killing joke
Will Smith sorry for smash mouth
Louis CK sorry for the strokes
Defective peroxide sorry for 4 non blondes
Daylight savings sorry for taking back sunday
Misogynists sorry for everything but the girl
UK beef industry sorry for madness
US government sorry for megadeth
Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.
Tangential to the Cheesecake Factory talk is that their workers are genuinely elite tier 1 operators in the food service industry. I have a friend who manages bars and restaurants and he will instantly hire anyone with Cheesecake Factory experience. They are like the Marines minus the war crimes
hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?
JD Vance: "Now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and call Amy Acton a liar"
When you're watching Spielberg and some dude comes on screen shadow first just as John Williams moves to a minor key you know your boy is in for some shit.
the new trend of outlets publishing articles accusing people of using AI to write based on nothing more than copy/pasting their writing into an AI and asking if it's AI ... is bad
quick question what happens if 600L of compressed natural gas at 8500 psi explosively decompresses for instance because it's being driven on autopilot at 70mph into a school bus.
I pledge to use my smashed-orphan orphan-smashing hammer - the world's first hammer built from smashed orphans for smashing orphans - to protect and support orphans.
RECORD ALERT: with that TD, Trevor Lawrence surpassed Blake Bortles for most total touchdown passes thrown in UK games by any NFL quarterback. started the day trailing by one.
I think I feel about watches the same way I do about Disney rides and Broadway musicals, which is that it takes an extraordinary amount of engineering & artistry to make something that is intended to feel special and make you happy, so even if it's not for me, I'm glad it's out there.
(i mean, I guess that's also true of quartz watches, which are products of the same history, but I'm glad there are people trying to figure out how to do fun things with tiny springs and gears)
Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.
You hear there's breaking news about sucker MCs loose in your area, but when you turn on the news they're just showing shots of police closing in on your house, wdyd?
We have created the sneering visage upon a trunk and two vast legs in the desert from the poem "dont build a vast statue with a sneering visage as a testament to man's hubris"
related to another bizarre feature of political discussion in the US: that it's supposed to mark you as reasonable/bipartisan/fair or whatever that you take these discourses on their own terms. as opposed to marking you as (at best!) a mark
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
texting Tom Cotton "why does your neck look like that?," "dude what's up with that neck?," "eaten any good tree leaves on the savannah lately?," and so forth every few minutes