someone on the Seattle subreddit asked “what is an expensive but poor quality restaurant I can recommend to an enemy?” and I think thats just a brilliant use of crowdsourcing
Teams during rivalry week:
- Ohio State: We don’t give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
- Alabama: Go East until you smell it, go South until you step in it
- Kansas: John Brown did nothing wrong. 260,000 dead confederates was not enough.
Marvel canceled Blade, canceled Ironheart, canceled Wonder Man, and had Sam Wilson fighting for his life as Captain America…
me seeing Black Marvel fans show interest in #Lanterns:
She held such profoundly anti-Black racist views (which were documented in her book) that she was forced to apologise to save a major exhibition.
Her views were so racist that they edited them out of the English translated version to save her brand.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
@GOODBROTHERLYZM@MouseJones Towel boy Bleek with the typical NYCorniness, trying to take credit for everything positive in hip Hop and accept zero blame for the ills.
A woman had Netflix for 6 years.
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.
Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.
She said "it feels like a completely different app."
He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."
Here's every setting he changed 🧵