europeans are so funny about this. I remember reading a recipe that was like "and add paprika for some heat" and I was like paprika?? for heat?? and then I realized the recipe writer was from the UK
skill issue
ooooh temu figured out it's now shorthand for "cheap off-brand garbage" and is not happy about it
I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that a rough beast was slouching this way, and that’s on me.
RIP David Foster Wallace, you would have hated this but kinda enjoyed feeling smug about calling it.
rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake
leland palmer in the black lodge
I'm no lawyer, but I think "we're going to keep stealing your stuff until you tell us you don't want us to steal your stuff" isn't quite the defense Grammarly thinks it is—at least not in the court of public opinion. I hope this company is sued into oblivion. I canceled my pro account today.
Each of these data companies touts its stable of pedigreed experts. Mercor says around 30,000 professionals work on its platform each week, while Scale AI claims to have more than 700,000 “M.A.’s, Ph.D.’s, and college graduates.” Surge AI advertises its Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists. These companies are hiring people with experience in law, finance, and coding, all areas where AI is making rapid inroads. But they’re also hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine. Job listings seek chefs, management consultants, wildlife-conservation scientists, archivists, private investigators, police sergeants, reporters, teachers, and rental-counter clerks. One recent job ad called for experts in “North American early to mid-teen humor” who can, among other requirements, “explain humor using clear, logical language, including references to North American slang, trends, and social norms.” It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.
"It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted."
give liz an aircraft carrier
I'm a military genius
iran could get critical online support for this if, instead of deploying mines, they simply deployed One Big Boat, which then got stuck
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
“When you cover capital crime cases, you notice the ways in which stupidity and evil become indistinguishable.”
exactlyyyyyyy
clown event still possible
unbelievable banger from the always-good london review of books: "As a couple, they have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
my favorite part of this clip is that jimmy kimmel is visibly afraid of chris fleming www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxd...
an email with the header "Opt out" from me to expertoptout@superhuman.com. Body text: Hi there. No idea if I am one of your experts, but I’d rather not be. You see, I do actually edit people and I don’t need your hallucination machine ruining my bad reputation. Thanks Liz
I write emails! thanks to @caseynewton.bsky.social for embarrassing Grammarly into doing the bare fucking minimum www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
once again making warren zevon references to my politely bewildered coworkers
huge fan of several sociologists of money!
A very up close tuxedo cat. Her nose is pink
hello?
Nuremberg 2, Immediately.
beautiful sunset rn fyi
totally
is that good
A graph with the x axis labeled on a continuum between "dracula music" and "carnival music" and the y axis labeled between "sex music" and "no sex music." it is populated with a lot of bands, but the main thing is that sunn o))) is off the chart on both the "no sex" and "dracula" side
image unrelated I just really like this chart
