There’s something off-putting about how people in the comments here are vilifying the rich guy. Yeah that’s a crazy amount of money to spend on a game, but it’s a safe bet that nearly everyone making comments here has spent an amount on video games that people who don’t would find idiotic. In a time when it is so easy…

Yeah it seems like they, and particularly Bernays, were responsible for a ton of harm. Not just the women manipulated into smoking, or their children picking up the habit they see their parents doing, but Bernays’ influence on advertising, moving the field away from the idea of people as rational consumers to one of…

I’m kind of surprised the name Edward Bernays didn’t come up. He was hired by cigarette companies in the 20's to get women to smoke as, at the time, it was culturally taboo for them to do so, particularly in public. He was extremely successful in his attempts, which included branding smoking as both glamorous and…

Part of the problem of systems like this is that they are combining computer logic with real-world data without consideration of misfit between intended purpose and the proxy used for that intended purpose. So in the case of recidivism, even if the algorithm functions perfectly in a perfect world, it is using arrest…

Hm, going through the list it seemed like there were more recent movies included, but it actually had a rather even distribution (I averaged the two for #15 into one for 2014):

So she dared have a strong opinion on the level of quality of an author’s books, and is thus assumed to have all the worst possible nefarious motivations for doing so? Jeez. People are allowed to not like something without it meaning they have some socially-unacceptable bias. It seems like the worst thing she is is…

Feeling Cheated: the amount of work it’s going to take to regain any traction with your old friends is going to be immense, much more than it would to build a whole new group of friends without all that baggage, and even if you do get some of that old traction back, the ex will always be a factor to some degree,…

io9 is a faint shadow of its former self.

Not really. See: cigarettes. And “eventually” may contain lifetimes.

I hope it imperceptibly-slowly shrinks your space over the six hours, so that by the end you’re completely crammed up between seats and people and when you turn your head up to breathe, you see the the ceiling encroaching on you as you are merged with stranger flesh, plastic and metal.

Well sure, in retrospect they could have handled the whole situation and its fallout better, but blaming them is like if a kid egged a man’s house and the man broke the kid’s neck in retaliation and you blame the kid for getting his neck broken. He’s not 100% innocent, but entirely blaming the kid doesn’t seem…

There was a Canadian show like that too, called Train 48. Pretty much all I remember was that it had the guy from Kim’s Convenience in it.

Hm, well that sucks. I guess you could find it online but that defeats the point of having a dvr.

Record whatever’s next, watch the minute or two at the beginning, then delete it. Extra steps, but should only take a few seconds to do.

Opportunistic, immoral fraudsters self-absorbed to the point they are clearly disconnected from reality who look like aliens wearing particularly hideous melted human suits? Of course they support Trump.

I don’t know how people reacted at the time, but the several universes’ worth of more substantial differences between comic and show may have taken precedence. Anyone bringing up that argument would have to know there would be enough more significant changes to make them look like an idiot 1,000 times over.

I think an element of zombie movies has been playing on people’s innate tribalism - their primal fear of the unknown, assuming any person not in their in-group may be dangerous, so as a defense mechanism, assume they’re dangerous. “Stranger danger”, as it were. However, with political divides being more and more…

When I think of entertainers I have liked before they hosted SNL, what I tend to like about their SNL performances is that they gamely survived the mess that is the SNL process. “Oh, they actually did okay with what they were given!” is about the highest praise I can think of. I really like her work so far, but I find…

So I get how the woman character’s role mainly (if not entirely) being to get victimized horribly and then be the motivation for the men characters is somewhere in a range from tone-deaf to misogynistic. But I think the core problem is the very nature of big-budget movies. They are not trying to be the best stories,…

Before all the controversy I was not super interested in this movie. But after so much noise has been made about it, I can’t wait to never see it and not be constantly reminded of it. I’m guessing all the publicity will mean more people will see it now than would have otherwise, but at least for me it’s having the…