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bottom right capitalising the R is most revealing here

very valid

Only fellow Minnie Riperton obsessives will appreciate this, but PTA sure does leave featuring the shadow of his mother in law. First, the arresting appearance of Maya in Licorice Pizza and now OBAA has a few Leo lines that make you go "you've had a couple of beers with Mr Rudolph about this, huh?"

I wanted to go there but my count gave me Tusk

that's actually a fair point

yes, I'm on a "people who say we need to have unfettered competition in all things don't seem to enjoy it when they're not winning the full pot" sort of line, which is admittedly a bit trite but also imo worth saying outloud now and then given how their normative claims are repeated at face value

yea I'm not a moron, I can see descriptively that this is what's happening. It's still fine to say they are full of shit when they make normative cases about lowering of standards or access costs (perhaps the hiring practices of people like Marc Rowan are why the good is exorbitantly priced tbw)

whether the institutions in question should have strategically protected that is not for me to say, I am just saying that when the countermove is presented as a principled one, I don't buy it one second

sure. The quoted example is Penn though, where I think the dynamics in the OP apply. I honestly don't think all the campus culture schmulture stuff would register if the right segments still had complete full right of way on access

or maybe even more likely do with it what it did with media, flex financial muscle to fund a 180° competing silo

agreed there

the 'the solution is to lower the temperature on how much a particular degree is worth in the job market' is all fine and good, but that rule was kind of established by the people complaining

my point is more that there were a lot of inequities in there before that the constituencies in question didn't care much about because they were always on the winning side of them

yes, as discussed multiple times, despite all the strong talk, none of these folks are signing up their own little Kendall to go to University of Austin

It's also true I think that the broad popularity of the 'universities bad' theme is down to it being the one salient issue where the insane billionaires are in tune with the 2-10% upper burghers (who decide editorial trends) who also hate that their own failsons are not shoo-ins any more

our two world class exporters: OF and online betting

it *is* very funny that the Conservatives' were presented with the type of choice which their most illustrious leader has a world historical famous quote warning people against, and then dove headfirst regardless

"avocado toast discourse by other means" in some aspects, innit?

I also think the Mike Leigh is the only proper post pandemic movie we've had so far, and I think very very highly of it for that

haven't watched OBAA yet, but fellow I'm Still Here evangelist here, and also would add: Decision to Leave, Aftersun, and I suspect I am going to re-rate Zone of Interest up on future rewatches (some minor quibbles on first view are going to fade vs the enormity of the movie I think)

how it started / how it's going

oh that's interesting. So there is explicit incentive for the users to make their posts with obvious LLM structure for an algorithmic bump?

Let's delve into this:
💥9,000 positions being removed
↔️This is tremendously painful for me too — your manager
📜Exciting opportunities abound in your future
🎉Work is not life

We all understand that these posts/comms are a box ticking exercise, but if it were me, I'd have someone go over the text to make sure it doesn't look like it's obviously been Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V from a LLM before posting on LinkedIn for clout how announcing layoffs "made me lose a piece of myself"

separate issue but I can hold a good 5' Question Time Insane Guest-style rant on how the racket of liquids being only available behind security gates at extortionate prices is even allowed. DG COMP what are you even for?

also, you know, the producer of lines is also a consumer (phrasing this carefully, but pun very much intended), and sometimes it shows...

it's also, like, the combination of both, right? Much more tangible metrics on what works AND the desperation to focus on the stuff that really can be monetised

banger

My hot take is that newspapers being able to find out exactly what articles people will click on has been just as disastrous to their quality as the collapse in ad and distribution revenues