Yeah, I don’t think there was any implication that it was supposed to be a golem. I also think that would have been a more interesting tack to take. I did like fighting the big beast.

I certainly understand the habit part, as I routinely catch my self trying to check Gothamist.

You don’t like it anymore, cool. I respect that. The A.V. Club has changed, right along with pop and culture. And will continue to change. C’est la vie.

I binned Shazam after it became this horrendous patchwork of ads and ad-adjacent nonsense. Later, I discovered that just asking my phone “Siri, what song is this?” worked. Now I’m never left going, “damn what is this? Wish I still had Shazam.” I kinda figured Apple had already bought them, with the presence of that…

But where would we be as a society without the Ignoratic Dialectic?!

I tend to think Nathan got fired because he’s a poor writer. Reading his website a few times after its launch, it became apparent how much work the editors must have always had to do to beat his ramblings into article form. They could have easily had Nathan write this Trump posts, because that and dissections of Weird…

“‘Regurgitated’ clips from Sam Bee”— So there’s someone with a TV program that people like to watch and discuss, and they post clips and discuss it here at a place called the A.V. Club. You think that’s off-mission somehow, and that instead clips you personally deem newsworthy—for a pop culture website you don’t work…

My understanding is that Hoffman is still alive. Am I wrong?

Seriously. How hopelessly fragile Dustin Hoffman must be that he’s constitutionally incapable of being called out on things that he’s done—which he apparently doesn’t even consider bad things. No one’s threatening you with jail, Dustin, they’re deservedly wagging a finger at you and you should shut up and take it.

“There is a difference (a huge difference) between Harvey Weinstein and Dustin Hoffman.” Absolutely. Just as huge as the difference in the reaction. Thing is, though, both behaved shamefully and both will be shamed. Harvey will go to jail too, hopefully, when it’s all said and done. There’s zero chance of something…

Damn Kinja, I thought that might happen. Neither, I was referring to Perlman, who I’d always heard was a super nice guy. I guess he is at conventions and what, but if you’re in his employ—we were delivering/installing art—he was a titanic asshole, with zero reason.

Having briefly worked for him—he’s a gigantic asshole

Agreed. I felt deeply embarressed for everyone involved. Well, maybe not Jackman. He’s such a natural ham that it’s more surprising when he shows up somewhere classy.

“Two centuries of slavery and an open rebellion to preserve it were real bad too, and we let Georgia, South Carolina, etc. keep their names.”

Hey, Pet Sounds is amazing, but he’s dead right—It’s fine to end a song by fading it out, it’s not anywhere near fine to end every song on your album that way. That album will drive me crazy for that reason. “You wrote such good songs, finish them!” But hey, understandable, all things considered.

I thought it was Less Than Zero.

Thank god I remembered the dismiss button, because yeah, that conversation was going nowhere.

So damn sad. At least, finally, it seems like things may be changing.

“Moderation does not equal censorship.” So true. And I believe moderation needs to be understood as a vital part of the internet. It should be a job, one that pays pretty well, and there should be lots of opportunities. Lord knows there’s lots of need.

All true. It’s almost as if the tech giants want to remove people from the equation entirely, when what should happen is that people automated out of their jobs should be hired to provide that meaningful oversight (and others put to work defining what that even means.) If the economy is going to depend on the…