The Last Essential White Guy

Me: *Starts to say something, then pauses to remember my own dating history as a youth* Goddammit. Yeah, she's right

shake them of their beliefs. They're still in a bubble of people saying they're better off for it & akshully that it proves they're right 'in a deeper way' etc. No one has to feel shame or regret and come out on the other side a better person anymore. Turns out they were perfect before and after!

Honestly cases like this are where i think you can see the truly horrific effects that social media have had on us. It's not just the upfront molding of views and strengthening existing biases, its the inability for even the worst outcomes of their bespoke worldview encountering reality to /1

"non-toxic", uhhh that might be impossible. Doesn't matter what league/level you have your kid in. Horrible, over-invested parents are gonna be a challenge.

Also - I've started saying of the ultra-rich that they have "money that they control" vs. "their money" because at a certain point that aren't "earning" it anymore, they are using leverage to extract it from people who are actually doing work.

Confiscatory inheritance taxes at a bare minimum. And none of this "arrange a trust" BS either. Any money that you either control or that is used to benefit you goes to Uncle Sam the minute you stop breathing. Exempt $5M per kid & $10M for spouse tops.

But every time I here someone say "lover" my brain immediately goes to the Rachel Dratch-Will Ferrell hot tub sketch...

Can we make "bonebuddy" a thing?

(Should we make "bonebuddy" a thing?)

Calling my shot - World Cup and 250th celebration stuff in the summer will create a short-term positive vibes polling bump for Trump and give MSM the green light to go all in on "TRUMP COMEBACK!" stories straight thru August

I mean, it was also a kind of a doctrinal thing? The Germans didn't really believe in the concept of strategic bombing*, so they didn't attempt to make hardware for it.

*They propose an Amerikabomber in 1938 and would eventually produce a few prototypes, but IIRC it wasn't a serious project

Pretty in Pink. Not Blaine and Andie's relationship, but Duckie's possessiveness of her. Just pure "I am OWED your affection!" energy

Christ. I just, by choice and with my own human brain, wrote the phrase "OPTIMIZE THE VALUE PROPOSITION OF UNDERPERFORMING EMAILS" as a slide header. Now I have to write even more words about that.

Tell me again how I am better than an AGI.

Is it...

Is it in Brooklyn?

"A paid sub"

ma'am this is a family establishement

Yet that Matthew Broderick AI commercial during the superbowl was trying to sell it like that! “Let AI do the work and then you can take the day off!” Who the fuck are they kidding?

One of the key things for my industry is that we bill hourly. and we are training and using agents that are shaving massive hours from some task (NOT ALL!). But it is still a math problem. So far it has shown up in (as you noted) near zero new hires, despite several new client wins.

I'm in an upstream marketing position, where much of the work product is subjective and built on interpreting fuzzy data. We write convincing "just-so" stories to explain the recent past and advise a path forward.

AI is going to eat people in positions like mine for lunch

Wasn't that one of the reasons Strategic Command kept the SACCS comms for nuclear missile silos on 8 inch floppy disks for so long, because it actually made the system more secure?

Worked on giant pharma brands for decades. Almost always comes down to not wanting to pay the cost of migrations, database translations, etc. "It works fine as is for operations! If marketing needs it so bad they can pony up $2M from THEIR budget cause I sure as hell ain't paying for it out of mine!

🎶 Out by the West Texas town of El Paso
We reenacted an old Nena tune
Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’
That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶

Yeah, they forget how many literal civilizations that got wiped off the earth because it didn't rain at the right times for three years in a row

And note, this isn't to say Trump "has a plan", just that what they do is create chaos & when a weak point breaks, create chaos at the next level until the next weak point breaks. J6 got a lot closer than people realize to creating a "throw the election to the House" situation & reinstalling Trump.

have toady FBI agents arrest winning Dem candidates in those states? Maybe, if the MSM devotes itself to "views differ" coverage of an "extraordinary moment" and not a coup. Bad as Minneapolis has been, Trump's polls are barely worse than thermostatic! MSM failing the moment is a real possibility!/4

nd we know that Mike Johnson will bless it and SCOTUS might. But what Trump & his enablers *depend* on in these situations is an MSM that will not call out what it is doing as wrong or *to be opposed*. Can Trump declare that the mail-in voting of CO, VA, CA, OR & WA is "fraudulent" and /3

2) Any action Trump attempts to take to combat said non-existent fraud is illegitimate & illegal from the jump, and should be reported as such.
It's a fools game to predict what Trump will try, but to think his crew of goons won't try *something*, no matter how far-fetched, is equally foolish. /2

I think that what is needed is broad messaging targeted at journalists, editors and everyone else up and down the media ecosphere that:
1) there is no way for ANY of the upcoming elections to be "fraudulent", and therefore there is no reason to treat Trump's accusations as legitimate

Oh boy, they're turning it into a cinematic universe: "The Epstein Files: A #MeToo Backlash Story"

What do you think are the chances Bain is still available at 9? Does the arm length scare teams off?