I heard an anecdote from a Stripe employee a while back about having to refuse a customer (business) because they were dropped by Mastercard. I think they’re really dependent on that relationship yeah

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

we need to bring back anonymous fandom kink/prompt memes. The internet is at its purest when you’re writing anon fanfic for a pervert you’ve never met

i just explained what sex pollen is to a fandom bud and not to be dramatic but we ARE losing the sacred texts. i fuck with omegaverse but it must answer for all of the equally good tropes it amalgamated into itself like a gelatinous cube of kinks

Kids these days talking about IP law when they haven't even read a summary of Campbell v Acuff-Rose Music

Please read this and pass it on: Aaron is a Harvard educated lawyer, community organizer and bookstore owner in Buffalo.

Looks like I may not be able to play this (non Windows user) but added to wishlist to boost!

And the clip is from the chorus, which is sung on the recording by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, is this an encounter between generations of English language musician fic fandoms?

Elon is treating the US government like a private equity firm treats a company after a leveraged buyout

pls take a 10s emotional break and look at my cat

i was telling gf about how I don't understand Shakespeare because im illiterate but how I really want to and how I think I'd be a huge gooner for hamlet and Othello because Othello "is like rashomon if if was breaking bad"

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Powerful people who act bewildered by accusations of misconduct from their employees/sex partners/etc don't seem to understand that compliance is not consent. A person who is financially dependent+ socially isolated might say or do anything you ask to avoid retribution. That's why HR depts exist.

Live Journal was the best social media platform

It's really stupid to put your face and government name on the internet, actually. We should all be using handles that end up becoming our second monikers.

Also, for more background, the same journal has an in-depth piece on the economic history of China from the late 19th Century through mid-socialist era. Took me a long time to get through but super illuminating chuangcn.org/journal/one/...

Red Dust Within the material community of capital, there can be no true hermit kingdom. All is encircled by capitalist accumulation—the red dust of living death—and all who attempt to flee are returned to i…

If you're interested in what "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is and the economic system of China in general, cannot recommend enough this very dense article about the transition to Capitalism in China: chuangcn.org/journal/two/...

These instructions only work for g suite for business accounts, and only from the admin account. But it also looks like the new Gemini stuff is only enabled for those accounts -- I don't see it in my personal free acct but I do see it in the business account for an org I'm in

Arguably the thing that people treat the most dismissively that would absolutely floor pre-modern people is clothing. I don't think non-historians understand how much human labor went into pre-modern creation of clothes and fibers. A single dress is the culmination of many many hours of work

If you wanna read about Neil Gaiman from vulture read this one. While I was reading it they took out the entire portion about Scientology, presumably thanks to threats from the religion.

That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering?

That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it