The Hedonic Adjustments of J. Alfred Prufrock, CFA

The mechanical vulture is a critical component of modern capitalist ecosystems as you will frequently find a wake of mechanical vultures feed on old databases and excel models from business lines that were not able to compete and reproduce.

A mysterious underground signal rippled around the world for nine days. Now we know why A strange signal that shook the planet in September last year has been traced back to a tsunami from a melting glacier in the Arctic. And it may happen again.

www.abc.net.au/news/science... thinking about this

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

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Lawyer: Work has internal reasons for existing / Lawyer: Content has external reasons for existing. / Lawyer: Work is a process - content is a final product / Lawyer: So, your honor - my client AI could not POSSIBLY be guilty - because AI can make CONTENT - but it can never make WORK / Cat: A thing can be both! Judge: SILENCE from the JURY! / Cat: A thing can be both and it's OKAY! Juror: Could we even make content into work through observation of it? Juror 2: Hmm - through OUR work - Judge: Order! Order! / Baliff: Hey pal - come on now - Cat: And sometimes we won't know WHICH it is - and THAT'S okay! / (Cat is being dragged out of the courtroom) / (Cat sits in prison) Prisoner: What are you in for? Cat: Politics.

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Need a 2nd derivative surprise index so I understand how surprising the surprises are.

A map from a 1931 issue of Fortune Magazine. It tracks the production and transport of wine, beer, cider, and various hard liquors in the U.S. at the end of Prohibition.

This map is from a 1931 issue of Fortune Magazine & tracks the production and transport of wine, beer, cider, and various hard liquors in the U.S. at the end of Prohibition. This is why the Midwest is the “beer belt,” but also: damn, look at that wicked hard Apple Jack ring up in Maine.

The obvious exception here is Superman but that's because every other superhero comic is referencing the genre created by Superman.

Comics always have been absolutely obsessed with being and referencing other genres to demonstrate their seriousness as art and so comic movies are at their best when they are being very consciously other genre modes.

just a sprawling RPG set in a vaguely eastern european post communist country about how good The Gap Band is.

I will be honest reading that FT article was the first time i understood that the title was Latin and not about the joy of multi-ethnic queer dance music.

Which supervillain would demo a few prime blocks in Brooklyn in a corrupt deal with Horace Stoneham?

100% speed run Disco Elysium (the ending where everyone finds happiness)

Girl behind me shouting "don't drink it she's alive" to Leo at the climax of Romeo and Juliet and another girl in the theater yelling "bitch this story like a million years old"

Roundel sticker depicting a roadrunner bird with wheels for legs and feet, saying “Beep Beep” while speeding past. The roundel says: “This Car Proudly Maintained by the Concord Shop”

Roundel sticker depicting a BART train cutting through fog in front of the Golden Gate Bridge as an airplane soars above. The roundel says: “This Car Maintained by the Daly City Maintenance Facility”.

Roundel sticker depicting a BART train Andntwo wrenches. The roundel says: “This Vehicle Maintained With Pride – Hayward Shop”

Roundel sticker depicting both original and modern BART trains. The roundel says: “This Car Proudly Maintained by Richmond Shop”

Anyone else remember the old @BART.gov maintenance stickers?

South Koreans are obsessed with Netflix’s 'K-pop Demon Hunters.' Here's why "K-pop Demon Hunters," an American-made film, has gained a huge audience in South Korea, thanks to its nods to Korean folklore, pop culture and habits.

South Koreans are obsessed with Netflix's 'K-pop Demon Hunters.' Here's why

"when I was 24, the town centre was safe, you could have a right raucous night out with your mates and then stagger home. Now I'm 55 and it's a scary place, full of thugs drunk out of their mind and shouting"

1 like, one meta take on engagement strategies in modern social media.

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I think the race is still in the "brute name recognition phase" and none of the Willie Brown and related Machines have started up.

I still don't understand why the CA sen race wasn't more of a combat zone.

Someone doxxed me and my Every Day Carry.

Claude please make me a 84 episode podcast in the style of Mike Duncan about the Chinese Communist Revolution

I don't know why campus Acapella groups try to sing anything other than Fiona Apple songs

Counter-revolutions are usually more violent than revolutions, because the latter aims to displace its predecessor whereas the former aims to destroy.

Revolutions may break taboos against categories of violence but counter-revolutions shatter the glass.

Do you know what it takes to sell real estate in this town?

I sometimes carry a nice little Benchmade because sometimes I need to slice a sausage or strip a future hiking stick or remove a centimeter of epidermis making a hiking stick there are many reasons to everyday carry

"average Meta user generates $50 revenue per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person generates 0 revenue per year. Ad-junkie Georg, who lives in cave & clicks over 10,000 adverts each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

It's the general case of the old Dan Davies saw that "financial products are sold not bought"