Raven

Definitely The Decepticons.

An obnoxious article from the Wall Street journal touting more obnoxiousness from execs about shrinking their workforce (aka laying people off is a good thing now!)

I remember when "rich" people and CEOs touted how much they were "job creators"

When I was young(er) I waited in wraparound the block lines to get into hip breakfast places.

Now as an old(er) suburbanite I wait in wraparound the block lines for a community pool that’s at 50% capacity 10 minutes after it opens 😆

A researcher friend is anxious because her company wants them to use AI to innovate faster.

I ask, “How slow were you before AI?”

She can’t tell me.

Yassss I’m laughing my absolute ass off 😊😊😊

Picture of the Stage for BadBadNotGood at Thalia Hall

Dust storm. Thalia Hall. Badbadnotgood.

Levar was out here doing the Lord’s work…

I am probably the last idiot on earth who still thinks people say "Hello" to strangers only to realize they're talking to the tiny person on the other end in their bluetooth headphones

OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company The maker of ChatGPT is giving up on becoming a normal company.

I can't see this company becoming profitable...in any timeline

Also 😆
www.theverge.com/openai/66130...

Mitch McConnell is retiring after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

I went to Config last year… I would say I have mixed feelings about attending, but one emotion primarily rises to the surface: resignation

Dead internet here I come!

Trying to stomach my way through the CNN documentary on Twitter. There is not enough liquor I can drink to stand the hubris coupled with naïveté 🫠

Yep 😊❤️

YouTube video by Urgently Firing Why are They Lying About Student Debt?

Quite an interesting and motley crew list regarding student loan hype.

youtu.be/h30hMcUxn34?...

NYT Cooking app commenter talks about a brownie recipe, then describes how a friend stole her husband

Even though this is 10 years old, The NYT cooking app comments never disappoint 😆

😂 yall gotta stop letting ppl who don’t exist outside of your phone tell you who you are.

I have nostalgia for the heyday of blogging, when lots of folk discovered (and practiced) sharing their thoughts in narrative form on the web…and weren’t aiming for clicks, SEO and going “viral”

I believe that was the motivating factor… in the beginning. Now they try to make it sound like it was all for the Tesla employee 😉

Knew folks in my family who did this. We ain’t friends.

Poor and white does not equal Black and female

But yet, time and time again, they make sure to tell me how poor they were… but also say share how they were on the synchronized swimming team in high school… in the same breath

Stop 🛑 please 🙏🏾

So over (yt ) women who grew up poor thinking they have automatic kinship with me b/c they believe their socioeconomic disadvantages is akin to the Black (female) lived experience.

Like, OMG, stop 😆😆😆

YouTube video by Adam Conover Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman

Had high hopes for this interview until Adam asked why didn’t Bregman support folks already doing important, world-changing work as opposed to targeting ivy-educated elites.

Bregman: Cuz the elites are the most lost and need help

Me:🙄

youtu.be/fivwdXSQoNU?...

They ALL suck 😆

I hope this stays limited 😆

Being squishy about principles and beliefs is why we have the current mess. Wishy washy-ness and belief when convenient not about standing on business when it counts.

JUDAS ISCARIOT An animated short film about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, from the perspective of the man who betrayed him

Hahaha YES!! HOLY SHIT. Now this is what I like to see from "Christian" films. Less flowery, uninspired looking adoptions and more rough and tumble, no-nonsense depictions of the Bible's most interesting stories.

JUDAS ISCARIOT, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/sai...

Watching the 7th season of Black Mirror. Getting deja vu from Common People. They sure do like inciting incidents where folks (typically women) are put in vegetative states and someone (typically, the husband) is put into a position to decide if said person remains a human server or not.

Totally annoyed with Indeed’s advertising showing a Black man tell an Asian woman she’s not qualified for a hospitality position because she does not have a college degree

Lots to unpack here 🙄

What’s that saying, women marry men hoping they change, men marry women hoping they stay the same … or something like that 😆