the magic of peak Twitter was being a place where shitposters and crowdsourcers could exist separately on the same platform! now every person who is just saying stuff here is immediately inundated with comments from those who (wrongly) believe social media should be a source of Truth
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
like i don't think it's actually possible to speak with the fluency and accuracy required to make videos efficiently without mangling idioms. it's all about whether you mangle them in cute or weird ways that determines your success
youtubers' constant mangling of idioms is both charming and the absolute proof that we are entering an era of secondary orality
“No one reads the news anymore”
Idk, maybe because the people who bought up all the outlets have gone out of their way to not give people what they want?
real Nightcrawler (2014) hours out there
rewatching heated rivalry and the wolf parade kiss on the ice scene gets me every fucking time!!!!
I'm kind of obsessed with the cocktail bar in the handbag section at Selfridges
Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.
lmao yes exactly this
Only Guy Ritchie could say "we have Peaky Blinders Sherlock" and be right
we are 60 seconds into YOUNG SHERLOCK and it might just be the benadryl speaking but it fucks already
omg incredible! i remember my mom once saying "i hope she has some regular people she can hang out with amid all this" and I'm glad to know it was you!
wait what how?????
i said this in my office and it turns out everyone had forgotten that she's the only female pop star who would sing with morgan wallen!!!
maternal: came back from WWII an occasionally abusive alcoholic, could keep it together for the most part and became a school teacher
paternal: came back from WWII an occasionally abusive alcoholic, could keep it together enough to be a pretty good civil engineer.
so like, minimally rugged
i don't know if it will ever happen, but my dream would be spending a day with kristian bush in the studio working on any project because i just want to see how he does it and how intentional some of these little production choices are
you can obviously do you, and i'm not judging your choices. but any solution that drives you away from actually reforming the land-use system in your area is a net-negative in the long run, and you have to at least acknowledge that
my first draft was like "did you know that somehow melding sheryl crow and faith hill was possible and that when you give that idea a little vocal fry, it sounds churchy????" eventually then realized that obviously what i was saying is lillith fair of the SEC conference
I guess my point here is that every legitimate LLM use case is a problem we deferred elsewhere, and eventually we'll run out of skips. We have to actually solve those problems, we don't want have a bunch of trillionaires lying around who refuse to help
I think this is a great example of what I'm talking about! This is a use that is good enough for you in the short run, and that outweighs the micron of harm it might cause elsewhere! But allowed to proceed unchecked it could be potentially incredibly deleterious for the overall system
they're calling it..........Woke 2
Crazy how Islamophobes are the most unhinged people in our current politics!
Say what you like about shadowy government conspiracies, but their habit of killing off people who know too much regardless of gender, race, colour, or creed really does suggest they are innocent of epistemic injustice, they truly respect all of us *qua knowers*.
I recently read A Sense of Where You Are, and now I can't look at a basketball player I really like without thinking......SENATOR WHEN?
When I was thinking about her life while pitching the story, I was like "Wow she's found herself in a lot double binds and handled them gracefully" and then the album itself has a song about how she navigates double binds. She's a genius at plaintive pop
After the interview, I went back and listened to "Tennessee Orange" again, and she's honestly right, there is an entire story of a brief relationship that fizzled because of timing and personal differences right in the text. Literally no other explanation required.
i didn't want to linger too much on the Morgan Wallen of it all, but I did have to hear about how being at the center of a literal conspiracy theory changes your attitude on being a public figure! I thought Megan's answer was equal parts funny and considered
I've started to say that using ChatGPT or Claude is a bit like smoking cigarettes in that each individual use is worse for you than it is for anyone else, but the social cost is real, and should be evaluated similarly
a bucket list interview from me!!! Megan Moroney on why she still wants to be as honest as possible in her songs www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
