I was a good kid who never went searching for hidden Christmas presents (in part because I was warned that if I did, I wouldn’t get any). But one time I happened across a copy of Mega Man 3 hidden in my parents’ closet. I snuck back in to look at the box over and over all month long - and made sure to act surprised…

I haven’t seen Yesterday, but this is exactly what would happen if the scenario played out in real life. No one would hear the Beatles’ songs for the first time in 2019 or whatever and think ‘these are the greatest songs ever written! I can’t believe how good these songs are!  So much better than all the other songs!’…

DeSantis has learned two important lessons from Trump: 1) play to whatever conservative media is talking about that week, and 2) performative cruelty against your enemies. What he *doesn’t* have is Trump’s outsider status - much of Trump’s appeal was that he was not a traditional politician, while DeSantis OOZES…

This sums it up pretty well. It’s not that hocking NFTs is off-brand or beneath Trump, it’s that as a ‘heat check’ moment this feels weak. The truth is that no fad lasts forever, and eventually people were going to get sick of Donald Trump. We may have reached that point.

This feels like a real turning point in the Trump saga. He was already starting to lose juice after the midterms (DeSantis is crushing him in polls of Republican voters) and this is... just pathetic. A real loser move. And I think a large chunk of his followers (not all, but definitely some) are going to sense the…

Dame Judi Dench burns up the screen as Gene Takovic

This post went soaring over my head

Not that I’m shedding any tears for Bob Chapek, but it’s funny how he took over Disney literally a month before both amusement parks and movie theaters closed down for a year, had the same profitability issues that every single other streaming platform is currently dealing with, and gets tossed out on his ass for not…

Thank god this anime convention has removed what will assuredly be its only problematic element.

Sure, but that’s a much broader concern, and one more than a century in the making. How many jobs have been killed off by the decline of, say, the print industry? Not just writers and editors, but printing plants, paper mills, delivery drivers, etc. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Yet most people mostly don’t…

Even the subject of giving credit for inputs is a fuzzy one. All art - not to mention technology, science, and virtually every other aspect of human civilization - is built on the sum of what came before it. Does someone who makes an impressionist-style painting today have to ‘credit’ Claude Monet? That’s just the…

I’m kind of flummoxed by this hellfire-and-brimstone opposition to AI-generated art as though it’s some kind of clear evil that must be opposed on moral grounds.  I don’t see any ethical issues with it, other than maybe the copyright aspect - and even that’s kind of fuzzy.  

All that’s already built into the system - the person who makes the decision on who to fire is never the one who tells you about it. I watched wave after wave of layoffs at my former company (including my own in 2017) and the local management had nothing to do with the decision, it always came from above. That way the…

I couldn’t agree more.  Getting fired sucks, but who cares if it’s via email or phone or whatever?  Do people really want to get dragged into the boss’s office just to get fired?

Obviously I’m rooting for the developer here, but I do get a little annoyed that his response is “What are you talking about? How could anyone think my pretend store has anything to do with Ikea???” Dude, we all know what it’s based on.

It’s still worth mentioning that they haven’t commented. That’s basic newswriting 101.

lol my strawman for what?  I’m not attacking anything

Loretta Lynn, who also recently passed, was married at 15 and had four children before turning 20.

There are shows that are worse, but there has never been another TV show that was *stupider* than Deal or No Deal.

Deal or No Deal was the stupidest TV show of all time and it’s weird that anyone would even bother to leap to its defense