Tom Phillips

It is very Suddenly Everybody Hates Blake Lively For Some Reason coded

also "our map was out of date" does not sound particularly like an AI problem, it's the kind of error that's been reliably causing military disasters for centuries

"continue to defend The Equality Act" is certainly an interesting way of describing what's been going on in that area

also tbh a lot of rugby decisions are not immediately obvious to either stadium or TV spectators because they're something that happened at the bottom of a huge writhing lad pile, so video calls often bring clarity in ways that isn't true for a lot of football calls, where spectators already saw it

oh for sure, but a lot of that endless commafucking is downstream of the basic problem that we're trying to adjudicate by millimeters the question of whether someone was taking the piss

hot take, VAR gets a lot of grief for stuff that's actually just the offside rules being written in a way that over time has completely dragged them away from the law's original purpose

be deeply opposed to racism as a general concept but somehow remain extremely white

I'd argue that cricket in England is very Lib Dem coded (middle to upper middle class, vibe of everybody should basically have a nice time but it's fine to get weirdly intense about obscure stuff only seven people remember, internationalist in a vibes way that ignores actual power distribution)

also notable for the Times doing a pun headline better than the Sun, tbf, I will acknowledge that "stitched up" is pretty good

Times headline and standfirst: Frankenstein’s monster? He was stitched up, say millennials Concern for animal rights causes students to sympathise with the murderous creature

everybody always (rightly) dunks on the Sun for this but I think it's important to remember they were copying a story from the Times and we should also mock them

I keep reading "hostility tsar" in the same way as Koko saying "jealousy professor"

if you think about it, aren't the Pahlavi dynasty the ultimate left-behind community, in ways that would surely resonate deeply with former industrial heartlands in the north

yeah she's (usually, variable across career) self-aware enough that there's at least some "this might be a me problem" material mixed in there

"His first name is a tribute to two of his paternal uncles, Mark and Wayne"

I assume it means "pretend ruler of Greenland"

yes

I think England's key mistake there was the brief flicker of hope. Doomed from that point.

I do not

...why are you posting a screenshot from Claude

Imperial Security Bureau type fit

absolutely mad knock from Finn Allen

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Disagree. If everybody imparts huge meaning into their sandwiches you get the city of New York, and upon information and belief I truly don't think that leads to fewer mid-tier academics writing interminable essays about how their sexual frustrations are a microcosm of the schisms fracturing America

oh don't worry, it wasn't a traumatic discovery, I just liked his historical work and, uh, disliked his political work

like writing a lengthy restaurant review about a sandwich you just made

as a side note, this was a very weird way to find out that David Abulafia had died

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

actually "will it get cancelled before it's exceeded the total runtime of the films" is a fun question

I love how all of the design on this thing is stuck at Unlicensed Souvenir Shop levels, because they want to pretend they're doing something new but also it has to be basically the same so they don't have to change the theme parks