Echo by itself is just a glorified smartphone assistant, but it begins to make more sense as homes become ‘smarter’ and more integrated. The main contribution of Echo itself is that the voice recognition and learning algorithms are becoming better and better. Pair that with compatible devices and it actually becomes…

The grandmammy of shitty implementation, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, says hello.

David Spade is reportedly dating Naya Rivera

I would say Hollywood is pretty diverse actually. It has a large Latino population and fairly significant smaller communities of Asian and African Americans. There might be a diversity problem at the level of the stars, but at the very least all the filming crews and publicity people that he would also interact with…

If the genders were reversed, if she’d been the one to wake up alone, are we to take it as a given that she wouldn’t do the same as he did?

He only gets so many passes though. The longer you live in a diverse place and have to confront these issues only to put your fingers in your ears, the less “not a bad guy, just clueless” or “he’s still well-meaning” flies as a valid excuse.

That’s what I was gonna say. It’s kind of ironic that probably the most accurate depictions of blue collar life and blue collar struggles happen in independent and international cinema, which a lot of the same people would consider snooty and elitist.

While I personally disagree with Berkeley initially stopping her talk, I kinda wish they had stuck to their guns and not whiffled around.

This is a joke right? Donald “magically disappearing bone spurs” Trump and Mike “can’t eat alone with a woman” Pence qualify as tough guys to you??? Is this reality?!

Yep. “Lol I’m so autistic” is the new “lol I’m so OCD” when it comes to delving deeply into a hobby or something.

The people that I know who watch them have an awareness of how ridiculous they are, but watch the show and follow them because they’re entertaining. Then again, I don’t think they would actually buy expensive products just because it’s from a Kardashian so I don’t know how much that qualifies them as “fans”.

“Hermione” at least has pedigree, but “Renesmee” makes me throw up a little in my mouth.

Stop trying to make shit into something its not

Well, she had to stop by “electropop” land at some point, and it’s at least better than that stupid phoned-in Ed Sheeran song.

I’ve been creeping on his twitter and ‘gram, and that dude memes a lot more than I expected. I don’t know what I was expecting— maybe more straight-laced business shilling like Zac Efron.

I think reasonable people can parse the obvious difference between a) calmly denying a passenger from boarding based on not following a dress code on a free ticket and b) assaulting a paying passenger and dragging him off a plane.

I would have given Madonna full points if she had posted the Coke picture without the zoom-in on the right, but subtlety was never that woman’s forte.

Yeah, those comments are basically this:

You really just “All Lives Matter”ed black girl magic, oh my lord

We’re looking through it through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia now, but it’s worth pointing out that Coke ad had LOTS of detractors at the time, for many of the same reasons: the corporatization of a counter culture movement where self-sufficiency and being in touch with nature were key themes. Putting bottles…