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The "heel turn" was slower, earlier and less surprising than some people think.

To be fair they have covered that in this thread by saying the stuff was problematic, which, yeah, it definitely was, but in ways that could have been legitimately thought of as clumsy and ignorant rather than malicious.
But it was clear several years before the transphobia blew up that she mad

I'm not talking about anti trans rhetoric

This is, of course, wrong. Rowling being dodgy as fuck was known in some circles going back over a decade. If anything, the transphobia was confirmation of what people had been saying for several years.

Well, Darling clearly learned from the threats to pull inward investment because he pressured companies to make exactly the same kind of threats when he was leading the Better Together campaign during Scotland's independence referendum.

No, it's shite

825. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners - 0/10

I'm not sure what possessed someone with the middle name "Sphere" to release an album boasting about his corners, but it's on brand given the smooth-brained music. It plinks and it plonks and then rolls away down the memory hole. Awful.

I was given a pun book. It was quite short: just over nine puns in total.

You'd think one of them would have made me laugh, but no pun in ten did.

It's actually weird to see some leftists aligning with artists to defend systems of asset-based passive-yield income against freely available generative models you can run locally.
Like, someone has literally seized the means of production. What did you think that would look like?

824. Ravi Shankar - The Sounds Of India - 0/10

The 1950s Tubular Bells. Shankar is as much trying to inculcate the listener into the structure of the music. As if we're going to believe that this sound is deliberate rather than the result of real music being squashed in a hydraulic press. Awful.

You're working really hard to get people to comply in advance.
Fed.

Hey there. I've just put the kettle on. World you like a nice cup of shut the fuck up?

It's the retina scans that get you then.
If you haven't spooned out your eyeballs and replaced them with rice paste then you're essentially a fed.

6.9 / 10

5G is a tool of fascism. So are JPGs, and crockery, and vulcanised rubber, and coaxial cables, and socks, and the alphabet, and one of my friends breathes oxygen and my man that's the same element TRUMP uses for respiration and they just don't get it even though I say it til I'm blue in the face and

823. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - 0/10

"Gimme Shelter" hoots Jagger, and honestly if he turned up at my door in a tempest there's no way I'm unlocking for this, the warbling Eugene Tooms of 60s rock. Peace, quiet... it's just a shot away. Awful.

Nemesis?

Oh no I liked an 80s film

Oh, I thought the first one was good. Yes it's very understated in places, ponderous and awkward but really quite charming with it.
Legacy was... a film. Which somehow has a slightly higher IMDB average rating which I do not understand at all.
I haven't seen Arse yet, maybe tomorrow.

I think I need to hear your opinion on the other two films too

And a new missus, and the new missus got a new fella AND kept the car. It's been quite the month.

A still from Tron (1982)

A still from Tron Legacy (2010)

Funnily enough

Releasing more Epstein files to distract from the fascist crackdown that was meant to distract from the wars of aggression that were supposed to distract from the Epstein files.

Strategic genius, 9 dimensional chess.

Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.

Wait 🚨
This looks awfully like regression to the mean of I've understood what they're saying: busy posters reduced and less busy ones increased.
I'd expect that even in a stable environment. Personal productivity crests and dips, that's life.

Overrated!

Fantastic album, but almost nobody I know rates it 😭

822. XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1 - 0/10

I couldn't put my finger on what was so indefinably sad about album, until I found out it was all written by a guy called A Partridge, and it was a real "ah ha!" moment. Smell my cheese, you mother! Awful.

And I get that there are situations where people are being channelled into using AI e.g. in customer relations contexts, which feels like a more valid thing to complain about.