Thing is… is that going to be an advert for Mad Men, or is that going to be a publication trying to use the popularity of Mad Men to get people to read it?

An interesting point, and I kind of liked the idea that being able to tell an ad from an article is some kind of superpower - when actually… no, they're usually not that hard to tell apart.

Honestly, crowdsourcing funds might not be a bad way to go.

"Just dripping with irony, as you're living up to the very same caricature of easily offended, hostile liberals in PCP's frat with each post."

Relatedly, left-wing and right-wing as tribal factions make very little sense. Left and right are political terms with a fairly specific meaning - relating to taxation and the redistribution of wealth. Yet you find issues like abortion or same-sex marriage placed on the left-right spectrum when, actually, the only…

In my experience, people who are so tribally invested in the left-right dichotomy that they can talk like that will, generally speaking, assume that all the good comedy is on their side, especially if it's essentially non-partisan and, in the case of South Park, the Simpsons, etc., far more damning of hypocrisy and…

"I have to wonder what the liberal progs' response is:"

I have often wondered whether online advertising is just a huge bubble that will someday burst. The value of adspace is based on what the company is willing to pay for it - based on various assumptions about how site traffic leads to clickthrough and clickthrough leads to sales - and when the fuck did my spellchecker…

And Blade Runner is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.

Rambled a bit about this elsewhere, but… the whole "crushing puss" thing doesn't seem as creepy as all that.

Mark Zuckerbutt prints it all off on old-timey punchcards, pours them all into a big Scrooge McDuckian vault, and rolls around in them, rubbing all your secrets all over his exposed nipples.

I've thought about this a lot, and on balance, if all these companies want to do with AI is to give me more personalised ads, then I'm actually fine with that. If we're going to create AI at some point, I'd rather it had something to keep it busy.

Yeah, I didn't really get the sense that they were supposed to have pressured women into consenting to basically everything. It didn't seem to be implied, and in fact it seemed to be implied that if you did something they didn't already consent to, you had to make sure you got a separate form. All very funny, and…

To quote a certain obscure figure in satire who you've probably never heard of called JOHNATHAN MOTHERFUCKING SWIFT:

"I know, I know, "satire", and obviously the school paper represents "media" as a whole, but this to me simply reflects how "free speech" gets conflated with "no obligation to the people providing the platform" under the premise that personal integrity of journalists is sacrosanct and trumps the desires of the…

Might be wrong, but I'm wondering if SP will just straight up try to avoid election season. I'm sure I heard/read somewhere that they'd got kind of sick of having to do an election episode every four years.

I might be going out on a limb here, but… is Principal Victoria's cane a reference to Hannibal's Alana Bloom?

Viral marketing, B.

(subtext is though)

Basically, he's serviceable when he keeps the plot relatively simple and doesn't try to be too serious.