Mob Front

Get a job at the fair, bingo bango

"Ruining the workplace" is such a funny premise, like asking did women ruin hell. Anyway, John Ford, Frederick Taylor, Elton Mayo et al. were all men as far as I know

Interesting to learn the guy who runs CC is both a massive liar and a total dipshit

he was talking about the "commie" part

The Case That the Earth Is Flat
The Earth is spherical. Yet it seems to be flat.

I fully support any filmmaker just pretending they don't exist, fuck realism

He probably bought her those pants

This is extra funny now that I've seen the part about him bullying the photographer

Even the photo reads like he's pointing at himself and laughing

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Haha well in this case I am that kind of American. Interesting comp with Disintegration though as HoLV is fizzy and sugary compared to previous, whereas I thought the charge against Disintegration is that it's too much of a distended mope that obscures their poppier talents

Beyond the Hot 100, what makes Tom's post especially wrong is it's in response to a post about Disintegration, which was empirically a reasonably popular album (even in the US), not some indie obscurity only belatedly canonized like he keeps insisting everything good from 1989 was

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

lol at Disco Brothers, lord I wish

True about the answers, but I was pleased that one of the first I read was the Eames' Powers of Ten.

My answer: Letter Never Sent.

I don't read EZ so I have no opinion of his work, but I'm confused by some of the defences I'm seeing. The sources for the Wired piece are bad, true. But doing PR and journalism in the same industry is a textbook conflict of interest, no? Doing both of those jobs at all is at least a little sketchy

Will be interested in your unbiased views about the recent events in Macclesfield.

Breaking: the woman everyone in Mamdani's family refers to as "youngest" is in her late 50s

I know DEI is dead, but this is a weird way to announce you don't employ or even know any South Asians

Maybe it's different in the sciences, but my experience with peer reviewing is that journals are beyond desperate to get people to do it — they couldn't care less who you are. Try to "not it" and they will bully you relentlessly to name other candidates

I don't care how many tattoos Platner gets, I'm seeing multiple non-US-based posters making fun of this doofus. I'm no campaign strategist, but "our guy is an international joke" seems like past time to fold

drip is a great insult and deserves to be revived

Down with all kings but

is Sneyd pronounced like "snide"?

Ripostes incoming from Melinda Milady and Felicity Fedora

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

“An MIT Technology Review investigation finds that caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT.”

I wonder if this was a genius scam to get classified as CanCon

One reason that the LLMs write like they do is that pre-GPT we filled up the internet with that kind of bland writing, and we did that partly because Google told people that clean, plentiful, SEO-optimised copy would improve rankings and because content meant traffic meant ad views

Honestly it sounds like they will be learning something about the presidency from this