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Eyes Wide Shut and Die Hard are both about the dangers of being underdressed for a Christmas Party.
December 2, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Eyes Wide Shut and Die Hard are both about the dangers of being underdressed for a Christmas Party.
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the erosion of the internet seems like one of those gradual-sudden shifts over the last year, as AI drowns out any useful information
New: When someone dies, Google is filled with clickbait articles about their death — even non-celebrity, private individuals. Even children.
I wrote about the cruelty of SEO obituary spam, and how sites are now using generative AI to produce even more content.
www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-...
I wrote about the cruelty of SEO obituary spam, and how sites are now using generative AI to produce even more content.
www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-...
When a funeral is clickbait
AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2024 at 10:15 PM
the erosion of the internet seems like one of those gradual-sudden shifts over the last year, as AI drowns out any useful information
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Adams claims migrants are bankrupting NYC. Meanwhile, overtime for subway cops is up 3875% in one year. No, that's not a typo: 3875%. gothamist.com/news/nypd-ov...
NYPD overtime pay in the subway went from $4 million to $155 million this year
Subway crime is down slightly. Fare evasion tickets and arrests are way up.
gothamist.com
December 22, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Adams claims migrants are bankrupting NYC. Meanwhile, overtime for subway cops is up 3875% in one year. No, that's not a typo: 3875%. gothamist.com/news/nypd-ov...
Centrist Democrats would rather lose the Presidency to fascists so they can blame online Leftists, instead of primarying a historically unpopular 81-year-old sitting President.
November 27, 2023 at 12:28 AM
Centrist Democrats would rather lose the Presidency to fascists so they can blame online Leftists, instead of primarying a historically unpopular 81-year-old sitting President.
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i think it should be a bigger story that NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people
The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new, encrypted radio system
The public and news reporters will no longer be able to listen in.
gothamist.com
November 21, 2023 at 5:52 PM
i think it should be a bigger story that NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people
If your anxiety be true, a New Yorker are you. If fear is all ye see, no New Yorker do you be.
November 3, 2023 at 1:44 AM
If your anxiety be true, a New Yorker are you. If fear is all ye see, no New Yorker do you be.
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WaPo just comes out and says what I've long suspected pol journalists think: 'moderate' is about style, not substance. It doesn't matter if Johnson is a militant rightwing freak; he's quiet and low-profile so no one will believe it
They're trying to doom efforts to get the truth out about this guy
They're trying to doom efforts to get the truth out about this guy
![Democrats quickly seek to make Speaker Johnson a boogeyman
The party has begun painting House Republicans’ new leader as ‘MAGA Mike’ but may face a challenge given his low profile and quiet tone
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[photo caption] House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) walks to the floor for a vote on Oct. 26. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer and Marianna Sotomayor
November 1, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. ET](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hm4euky3y3a3dqrvstvbqakn/bafkreifj2crpldq2mxbn235c76xyl3xpyijex2nx4skr2flquxjgpfrbau@jpeg)
November 1, 2023 at 1:25 PM
WaPo just comes out and says what I've long suspected pol journalists think: 'moderate' is about style, not substance. It doesn't matter if Johnson is a militant rightwing freak; he's quiet and low-profile so no one will believe it
They're trying to doom efforts to get the truth out about this guy
They're trying to doom efforts to get the truth out about this guy
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If you’re ever in NYC you can avoid this problem with my ongoing project of keeping a Google Map of good bars.
maps.app.goo.gl/b9bhdaJmvz9s...
maps.app.goo.gl/b9bhdaJmvz9s...
October 30, 2023 at 7:52 PM
If you’re ever in NYC you can avoid this problem with my ongoing project of keeping a Google Map of good bars.
maps.app.goo.gl/b9bhdaJmvz9s...
maps.app.goo.gl/b9bhdaJmvz9s...
It is somewhat telling how some commercially successful filmmakers will take Scorcese’s (rather tepid) criticisms about IP films in stride, while others will embarrass themselves badly in an effort to show how “not mad” they are.
October 30, 2023 at 7:17 PM
It is somewhat telling how some commercially successful filmmakers will take Scorcese’s (rather tepid) criticisms about IP films in stride, while others will embarrass themselves badly in an effort to show how “not mad” they are.
Yeah, I don't know, when Europe's Most Anti-Semitic Leader Viktor Orban is voting against the UN ceasefire resolution for Gaza maybe that is a sign that the ongoing bombardment is actually bad for the Jews.
October 27, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Yeah, I don't know, when Europe's Most Anti-Semitic Leader Viktor Orban is voting against the UN ceasefire resolution for Gaza maybe that is a sign that the ongoing bombardment is actually bad for the Jews.
One of cinema history’s most brutal owns is in “Timecop” when evil Senator Ron Silver tells slightly less evil Ron Silver from ten years earlier to “lay off the fucking candy bars.”
October 25, 2023 at 7:04 PM
One of cinema history’s most brutal owns is in “Timecop” when evil Senator Ron Silver tells slightly less evil Ron Silver from ten years earlier to “lay off the fucking candy bars.”
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“One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is that Marc Andreessen has not really built much of anything.”
"Techno-optimism" is a sign of V.C. crisis
It's not funny, V.C.s only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
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October 22, 2023 at 4:39 PM
“One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is that Marc Andreessen has not really built much of anything.”
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This feels like an apt summary of a lot of nerd culture right now.
October 22, 2023 at 5:04 AM
This feels like an apt summary of a lot of nerd culture right now.
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It’s so hard not to screenshot all of Doppleganger by Naomi Klein but this point is so crucial.
October 22, 2023 at 2:11 PM
It’s so hard not to screenshot all of Doppleganger by Naomi Klein but this point is so crucial.
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Wow the FBI used a far-right reactionary as an informant, freeing them from scrutiny of their anti-democratic activities?!
Oh dear. Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant, starting in the summer of 2021 www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-...
October 19, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Wow the FBI used a far-right reactionary as an informant, freeing them from scrutiny of their anti-democratic activities?!
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if i want to listen to the child of a 1 percenter tell me i can solve all my problems by getting married, that's what half the existing influencers are for
October 18, 2023 at 12:35 PM
if i want to listen to the child of a 1 percenter tell me i can solve all my problems by getting married, that's what half the existing influencers are for
Republicans deeply concerned about 'grooming' as they prepare to make Jim Jordan the Speaker of the House.
October 17, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Republicans deeply concerned about 'grooming' as they prepare to make Jim Jordan the Speaker of the House.
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These dudes are slowly realizing that their entire class of people were a product of zero-interest-rate financial chicanery rather than any kind of innovation or technology, and are going more and more insane as that environment falls apart.
October 16, 2023 at 6:35 PM
These dudes are slowly realizing that their entire class of people were a product of zero-interest-rate financial chicanery rather than any kind of innovation or technology, and are going more and more insane as that environment falls apart.
NW:
Fucking Astros.
Fucking Astros.
October 16, 2023 at 12:12 AM
NW:
Fucking Astros.
Fucking Astros.
Oh, good. Media outlets are stopping to ask George W. Bush what he thinks of all this.
October 13, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Oh, good. Media outlets are stopping to ask George W. Bush what he thinks of all this.
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Propublica’s deeeeep dive into Leonard Leo. www.propublica.org/article/we-d...
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
www.propublica.org
October 11, 2023 at 11:18 AM
Propublica’s deeeeep dive into Leonard Leo. www.propublica.org/article/we-d...