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That generally comes from however the corporation scores their live agents on QA. Almost any agent for any industry is supposed to run down a list of things to make that call short, before they can _really_ help you.

Sucks because it makes callers feel like agents aren’t listening to them.

I understand the studio execs being stupid, like, I expect that, I am very concerned about the author being stupid.

Then again, he was hired by the Fleming estate to right Bond novels, and he might be the exact type of stodgy Englishman that doesn’t pay attention to what modern audiences like.

This summer the 4th iteration of Superman was released.

Audiences know that the Craig Bond was a reboot. It had its own version of Spectre and Blofeld.

Amz/MGM heads apparently don’t understand it.

You need to create a new Bond, dummies, not continue the last one.

Here's some more AI making up a quote from me. It's gonna be a nightmare, so let's pray the bubble pops soon and big.

I mean this could be very bad writing that notes that I defend nonlinear narrative, meandering, etc. (and I do praise indirect consequences a lot), but it sure sounds like something more specific, aka me talking about this guy.

Innocuous in itself, this stupid sentence is a reminder that thanks to AI it'll be harder and harder to know what's true, and some of us might get seriously misrepresented.

Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki

Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...

This already exists for some other centers (including Rudy Gobert), they are “neverminds,“ which is pointed out frequently on Timberwolves broadcasts by Michael Grady.

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?"

Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

like I can almost guarantee these people had some sort of construction uniform or something that made everyone think Ah Yes, This Is Official Business Of Some Kind even while they put up a fucking heist ladder

the Louvre heist very clearly based on the age old maxim that if you walk around holding a clipboard and a serious expression on your face absolutely nobody will question anything you’re doing

while youre busy reading this
im pulling a heist in your casino

The replies you are getting are not random people. They are not a statistical sampling of the audience.

They are aggressive deranged participants in harassment who are either bots using it to cloak themselves as human, a hired bot network, or just genuinely universal malcontents who hate ice cream.

I have multiple times now seen people remark the volume of hatred they get on Bluesky for pretty anodyne opinions.

...Got no idea what they're talking about. I've never seen it.

Because I went through blocklisting follow networks of the most virulent dipshits on this website.

Free and clear since

Years ago there was a Twitter leak that disclosed actual countries and email address of many ppl's IDs.

To this day you can find MAGA accounts – that were originally started by posting cat pictures – praising Hitler and, if you trace their account ID, are actually run from Pakistan.

It's all an op

Carly is so powerful that just *thinking* about Run Away With Me has me tearing up right now

Scene from the pilot episode of "X files" where Scully introduces herself to Agent Mulder in his basement office.

Happy birthday (anniversary?) to the show that made it ok for weird little kids like me to be interested in weird, spooky things.

a man in a red jacket is standing next to a machine and says riker ! Alt: a man in a red Starfleet uniform, Ensign Brad Boimler is getting on a saddle in the way William Riker would get on a chair, and saying “Riker!”

I liked the concept of Subspace Rhapsody, just not the actual songs. 😀

Those Old Scientists is just pure brilliance. So many amazing moments.

Yeah, Discovery kinda sputtered out. There are things we like from the last couple of seasons, but on a whole not always great. Whenever we go back & watch season 2, it’s the more traditional Treks aspects that feel burdensome (the Klingon war stuff), the rest feels fun and interesting and fresh.

Also, fantastic rating for the episode. 😉

And I kinda didn’t like the first season so much, but I absolutely loved the second season. So much so that the wait for for the first season of SNW seemed so unbearable.

And now, here we are. And this recent episode was so good. I hate that we only get two more seasons.

Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are two things I would not expect would be important to me, but they really are.

It’s funny, I remember a long time ago, when you would tweet as you watched Discovery. And I just kinda chuckled, not thinking I would ever been into it. The show sounded…off, to me.

Ok listen everyone’s gotta fucking stop with the labubus.

Screenshot of a tweet: British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak... [Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at home."

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

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I want to share something truly beautiful with you all...you are welcome.