He was great in Smooch Smooch Boom Boom.
kibiz0r
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It’s like if they were in the context of black folks being hanged, and he said to a black guest: “I hope they run out of rope for you”.
Like yeah, they’re technically saying they hope his life is spared, but only through a mistake.
The whole big tech ethos is to figure out the intersection of against-the-spirit-of-the-law and within-the-letter-of-the-law, and colonize the fuck out of that spot.
So they’ll probably just create a replica through means that allow them to claim they didn’t use his likeness directly, and call it “Rodert Upney Sr.”
Oh hey, a consistently relevant topic:
Why is conservative comedy so weird? (The Schneidecker Paradox) - Maggie Mae Fish
Rocko’s Modern Life was a helluva ride
The only thing I hate about Winter is not Winter’s fault, and it’s basically what you said:
Work is somehow perfectly scheduled so that you’re inside, staring at a brick wall for 90-100% of the daylight hours for 5 out of every 7 days.
Winter is beautiful in ways that are completely unlike the other seasons, but unless you’re very fortunate you only get a few glimpses of it.
I feel like if you were designing a society to make people suffer, that’s how you would do it.
But if she said “I strongly support the second amendment”, they’d have no problem. So where’s the line? Is saying “bodily autonomy” okay, or is that too far? “Freedom”? “Liberty”?
Regardless, it seems like she’s within the letter of the law, so get bent losers.
Extraneous apostrophe’s
We are playing with some dark and powerful shit here.
We are social creatures. We’re primed to care about our social identity more than our own lives.
As the sociologist Brooke Harrington puts it, if there was an E = mc^2^ of social science, it would be SD > PD, “social death is more frightening than physical death.”
…yet we’re making technologies that tap into that sensitive mental circuitry.
Like, check out the research on distracted driving and hands-free options:
Talking to someone on the phone is more dangerous than talking to someone in the passenger seat. But that's not simply because the device is more awkward. It's because they don't share the same context, so they plow ahead with conversation even if the car ahead of you brakes suddenly, and your brain can't help but try to keep the conversation flowing even as your life is in immediate danger.
Hands-free voice control systems present a similar problem, even though we know rationally that we should have zero guilt about rudely interrupting a conversation with a computer. And again, it's not simply because the device is more awkward. A "Wizard-of-Oz paradigm" perfect voice control system had these same problems.
The most basic levels of social pressure can get us to deprioritize our safety, even when we know we're talking to a computer.
And the cruel irony on top of it is:
Because we care so much about preserving our social status, we have a tendency to deny or downplay how vulnerable we all are to this kind of “obvious” manipulation.
Just think of how many people say “ads don’t affect me”.
I’m worried we’re going to severely underestimate the extent to which this stuff warps our brains.
I think they accidentally a word
M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.