Orwell didn’t know he was also writing about the Entertainment-Industrial Complex.

the current U.S. Supreme Court wouldn’t give you democracy, even though the American military has killed tens of thousands of people around the world in its name.

FTA

McKinsey is to the middle class what flesh-eating bacteria is to healthy tissue.

Holy shit, this writer pulls no punches.

Privilege is everything. If you have enough money you can avoid the consequences of anything

For more information, please watch Infinity Pool (2023)

From Jeff

I would love to have notable information pop up but we both know it would devolve into something between Ow My Balls and the RESUME VIEWING episode of Black Mirror.

you know how banks will say “Past performance of financial securities does not represent potential future performance” or whatever: this is much the same thing. There are plenty of things that people freaked out about that turned out to be nothing much. There are plenty of things that people did not freak out about when they really should have. People are basically shit about telling the difference between them.

whatever shortens everyone’s attention span the quickest: it makes for efficient hoodwinking

as does everyone

Why has this taken THIS LONG to get this far? Anybody else would have been rendered penniless within a year, tops.

the windows save menu has remained mostly the same since win3. Office products used the regular windows save menu for ages. Then suddenly they introduce a monstrosity that takes up the whole screen and throws decades of useful design out the window. If i describe it further I shall descend into madness

Same, but for Excel.

Also, JFC the save menu in Office 365 is Cthulhu-level madness.

Startup says it wants some more cocaine and wants to know if you know anyone with some more cocaine because some more cocaine would be fuckin’ great right now holy shit

lickspittle

I’m so glad this term is coming back into modern usage. It showed up twice in one episode of HOTD (and a few others) and I was happy to hear it.

Also, how tf has JDV been a politician for this long without the ability to be likeable and/or know his audience for a public speaking event? Holy shit.

I wasn’t clear - when i say NVidia will correct I mean it will pop back down - the current valuation is stupidly high. They won’t die, but people will act like the sky is falling the moment NVidia stock finally corrects back down. What that will trigger is anybody’s guess.

AI bubble bursts (it will, and fairly soon)

NVidia will correct right away, but what corrects after that?

it defaults to the shareware version

but talking to Farnham is not available in the shareware version.
What if I want to talk to Farnham? Maybe I had a rough week and just need someone to talk to. Farnham seems pretty chill.

Quayle was unmoved, and Pence ultimately agreed

In the name of Murphy Brown I never thought I’d say this: Thank God for fucking Dan Quayle, of all people. once MAGA is in the dustbin of history that doofus should run for office on the platform of actually having saved democracy.

not going to be any porn parody

I’m surprised it hasn’t been made already.

fyi it’s “come on”, but that’s a common mistake.