Have some self-respect. Add that red-underlined word to your OS’s spelling dictionary before sharing a screenshot of your Notes.app note.
We’ve reached an eerie point where anything depicted in media is seen as an endorsement of that thing. This means that any main character (nay—any “not explicitly the villain who is swiftly defeated” character) has to be someone you think is morally correct and aspirational.
To understand where hipsters went, you first have to understand who they replaced — and what made hipsters so different from all the other weird subcultures in recent history.
It might take another generation or more to secure judicial recognition of fetal personhood, but that does not trouble the activists who had successfully destroyed Roe v. Wade. They have played the long game before.
Recently, my social media feeds have become full of people making predictions about how in X months/years everything in the software engineering industry will be done by AI, via doomsday-style content about how everyone is going to lose their jobs and everything will fall apart.
Want to read: Dividing Lines by Deborah N Archer 📚
It’s been 64 years, we don’t in fact still need to label astronauts as having an entirely different profession if they’re from this one specific country
How did we let “gyro” become the ONE food from another country that people get mad at you if you pronounce normally?
I’m never going to have any sort of emotional reaction to text output from a large language model, sorry.
It is difficult to overstate how discordant it feels to hear left thinkers talk about the benefits of woke movements accruing only to elites when trans soldiers are being purged from the military, immigrants are being detained in Guantanamo, and pregnant women are bleeding out in parking lots.
The only two things I know about Wicked are that I like the soundtrack, and what I’ve been able to piece together of the plot by listening to the soundtrack.
Burnham then needs to resolve the contradiction between “This system has provided me with an objectively comfortable life” and “I’m miserable.” Belief in the End Times lets him turn this bug into a feature: Considering the dire state of the world, it would actually be selfish to enjoy what I have!
It seems quaint now but there really was a time that people fretted about AI somehow destroying the world and imagined Elon Musk somehow saving it.
