I dunno, I like Zosia Mamet.  Couldn’t say whether I’ve seen the other two, but Mamet made the most of a limited role on Mad Men, and I really liked her work on The Flight Attendant.  I’ve heard she was great on Girls but will admit I’ve never seen that show.

I dunno, most folks I knew with half a brain moved from lower middle class (at best) to middle or upper middle class just by getting a middling state university degree and moving out of Bumfuckburg to a decent size city. Meritocracy may be a myth when you’re talking about the upper echelons of society, but it seems…

What’s the median income level of a family a new car is actually sold to, though? I don’t think there really are that many folks outside the top 10% that can afford a new EV.

Exactly. What’s the point of having a tax credit phase out before someone makes enough money to buy the car.

An upright-walking bipedal organism that evolved from a tetrapod seems like the most efficient body plan to become an adaptable tool user. Two legs for walking, two hands for toolmaking and use.  No need for panspermia to cause that. (On Star Trek, I thought the panspermia bit was more to handwave away why all these…

Not really, but the timeline works. A Dance With Dragons came out in 2011, which was the last ASoIaF book to be released. Leviathan Wakes was also published in 2011, which was the first Expanse novel. It took only ten years for the entire Expanse nine-novel series, along with some short stories, to be released. …

The supposed dirty little secret is that he had ghostwriters through at least the last couple books he completed, but they left to write a little book series called The Expanse, and he hasn’t finished a mainline Song of Ice and Fire novel since.

Yeah, I think Google’s approach of crawling the original, human-curated lists of websites worked great, and continued to work well (despite SEO shenanigans) until we went from the blogging/message board era to the social media platform era. Prior to social media, humans were still writing things and manually linking…

I have a feeling the newer stadiums like SoFi are engineered to sound good during football games - and I went there for the Eagles-Rams game last year and it DID sound good.  Those older stadiums were ostensibly multipurpose and probably were acoustically engineered as such.

Eh, I’m going to push back a little here. We all have some thoughts running through our heads that we wouldn’t say out loud. Thoughts we’d be mortified if we said out loud. Losing inhibitions sometimes results in those thoughts spilling out of our mouths. If that’s the standard for assholes, then we are all…

The acoustics at SoFi are TERRIBLE for live music.  I saw the Stones once there and thought it was an aberration; saw Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel and same problem.  Never again will I go there for a concert.

Exactly. $200 a ticket and it better be a club that holds maybe a thousand people. 

Ha! Generative AI trained on AI-generated content ought to be called Habsburg Code.

Ambient listening is really making a dent in physician’s time documenting patient visits in EMRs. Writing notes from patient visits is not creative writing; it’s fairly matter-of-fact, and doctors review the note before it’s filed. It is by no means perfect, but neither is a physician’s memory, and it’s not going to…

Right, it’s like telling someone with anxiety disorder to relax.

I’ve never worked on Memorial Day since I started office work (private sector, non-government) 20-odd years ago. Same with Labor Day. Food service and sales - yeah I worked those days.

Unfortunately this site is one of the few places it’s written about. That reality shows get reviewed here but something like Rick and Morty or Bob’s Burgers no longer does is everything that’s been wrong with AV Club the last few years.

I wish this feature would NOT return.  

I love that he rides a bicycle built for two, but has a mannequin on the back.  Super powers, indeed!

Like you can’t train an AI to write a half-decent LinkedIn profile by scraping LinkedIn.