Was supposedly a way for draftees to intentionally fail their physical back during Vietnam.

Don’t forget “here because of (video game or TV show I’ve never heard of)?”

Legitimately great!

There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc

We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."

Comforting to learn I’m not the only one annoyed beyond all reason by this.

Discovered she was opening when I got there just in time for her last song.

Google changed its algorithm slightly.

I’ve lost interest in trying to psychoanalyze the man, but it is pretty fascinating. Never had a pet in his life, never owned a ranch in Wyoming or wherever, rarely outdoors unless on a golf course, thinks forest fires are caused by the forest’s janitorial staff not sweeping it often enough…

I thought we were supposed to be mad at Canada? Hasn’t Mexico basically been humoring us and at least going through the motions on trade talks?

In their respective IPO filings, both SpaceX and Anthropic claim they have a total addressable market that is around the same size as the entire 2025 US GDP. That is apparently considered an acceptable level of exaggeration on the business side of the equation.

I have a bizarrely vivid memory of watching this episode as a 6th grader and silently pledging to do everything in my power to see this movie as soon as possible. 30 years later and I still haven’t. 11-year-old me would be so disappointed with what I’ve become.

I do like the idea of Franz Kafka stewing every day in the afterlife, furious that his name has become an adjective.

Yeah, I feel like people have broadly complained about this for decades? Like, the whole tradition of it from The Sorrows of Young Werther to Catcher in the Rye and onwards. (Also sad-boy cinema, sad-bastard indie rock.) Guess it’s just not a trending topic at this exact moment…

Finally read it last year. As a three-decade LA resident, it was insane how many times that book offhandedly mentioned something seemingly improbable that made me immediately stop reading to look it up and say “holy shit, that actually happened?”

As an intern, I was once assigned to interview Jim Cramer despite having no idea who he was until an hour beforehand. It actually went pretty well, as I think he interpreted my earnestly intro-level questions (“so what’s your deal anyway?”) as me being wryly combative, and seemed to appreciate that.

(For instance, the only photos we had of Blackpink were from the ceremony where Prince Charles gave them MBEs, so we used those photos every single time we wrote about Blackpink, finding increasingly surreal ways to caption them so it made sense for the story. It was fun; people seemed to enjoy it.)

Once worked for a miserably penny-pinching website that subscribed us to the worst photo service known to man. Finding images for articles was an eternal challenge; we had to get extremely creative. And not once did we land on anything that would have been improved by having AI generate an image.

Whaaaaaaaat?