Ashley Flanagan

The Coca Cola AI ad required 70K prompts and no one remembers anything about it because it's generic slop. I'm not surprised the AI adv sucked but it's impressive that it somehow managed to require probably more human labor

do I think the situation in the U.S. is comparable to the height of Nazi power? no, thankfully. is it comparable to other states that, at the least, are inclining toward fascism? yes, but it's a relatively weak and unconsolidated regime for now.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions

This is why yall need to continue to contact your representatives about paypros, this is banking discrimination

It’s wild that the post-COVID return to office push isn’t just undoing the expansion of COVID telework policies, it’s undoing a ton of telework policies that had been in place for a decade before COVID.

Sandra Oh and Lupita Nyong’o in TWELTH NIGHT

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!

www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

igure 3.3. Growth in Incomes at the Very Top, 1917–2006 (in 2006 Dollars) Source: Emmanuel Saez’s computations from IRS income tax statistics, http://elsa.berkeley .edu/~saez

it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Martha Nussbaum's line about "the gradual supplanting of the natural by the just," extremely based

Staging of Othello where Iago's role is ChatGPT giving everyone bad advice is this anything

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.

Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that”

I think about that often.

Facebook memory. On this day 3 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 15, 2022 I am happy beyond words to say that Riot has told me the job is mine. 289 comments 2 shares

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.

2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

'Great Performances' on PBS: Why to Watch Star-Studded 'Twelfth Night' Director and Tony nominee Saheem Ali teases the bold production — and the wildlife they encountered while putting it on.

Did you know that 12th Night is on tonight on PBS? Starring Lupita N’yongo, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh and other amazing actors and actresses. #BlackSky

www.tvinsider.com/1224871/grea...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Evidence that the work being done by people like @bcfinucane.bsky.social explaining to the public what is happening and pointing out the illegality can make a real difference. This is a big swing!

I saw it and I still had this brief moment of hope

The irony is, there can be levity in Metroid games.

Dread & old prime have a couple of rather funny moments.

But the way you deliver a joke in Metroid is usually through how Samus kills something. Or how a dash of violence ends.

It's a tension release point after the main event.

I knew they were going to try to Zeldify Metroid but I still did not predict adding a Navi

Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

the Pope is outflanking the US government on every single social issue. like, it’s not ambiguous: even without him making any meaningful concessions on trans rights (or abortion or anything else), he’s still to the left of every US federal government policy

Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.

The damage done by treating Trump's victory as some sweeping mandate in the first eight months of his term really was massive, but ending that collective delusion - i think with the help of last week's elections - really is having profound impacts.

I feel like your family should be entitled to special government compensation if your son or daughter was killed to run defense for a pedophile.

Epstein Coverage Largely Ignores Trump’s Assault on E. Jean Carroll This seems like relevant context

donald trump was held liable of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. the judge in the case called it rape.

I feel like this should matter and maybe be part of this discussion? www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-co...

Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.

"Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House. "