Hard truth…
I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted.
Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely.
They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil.
I assure you.
These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism.
ATLA is a mystery to them.
They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise.
Swap the phones for newspapers and this is a subway photo from 1920.
A sociologist named Erving Goffman described exactly this in 1963. He called it civil inattention: the learned habit of acknowledging that a stranger exists, then pulling your attention back so you don't intrude on them. A quick glance, then you look away. In a space packed with people you will never see again, looking away is the courtesy.
It's the quiet contract that lets a few hundred strangers share a tight platform without friction. You signal "I see you, you're no threat, I won't bother you." Phones slotted neatly into that ritual. They are the most convincing prop anyone has ever had for performing it.
The newspaper did the same job for a century. Subway photos from the 1920s through the 1970s show entire rows of riders vanished behind broadsheets, every face covered, nobody speaking. Radio got blamed for ending conversation. So did the Walkman. So did the cheap paperback before either of them. Each new object inherited the same eulogy: this is the thing that finally isolated us.
Connection on a subway platform was always rare. Strangers waiting for a train kept to themselves long before anyone had a screen to disappear into. The phone's real footprint is at the dinner table and in the living room, the places where idle attention used to have nowhere to go and now always does.
The behavior in this photo is a hundred years old. The object in everyone's hands is the only part that keeps getting replaced.
the idea of sandara naming her own company ARADNAS, which is literally sandara spelled backwards, is peak pinoy behavior. this is giving cavite to etivac energy😭
‘WALANG MAY GUSTONG MAGPUTOL NG PUNO’
DENR chief Juan Miguel Cuna defended the tree cutting in Manila stressing that “this is the world that we live in” right now, pointing to sustainable development. | @josiahvantonio
esta cancion va a aparecer en el momento q mas lo necesitas y lo mejor q podes hacer es aferrarte a ella como si fuera lo unico en el planeta esto es VERDAD
> El CEO de OpenAI admite que la IA no causará el apocalipsis de empleo que predijo
> Uber no encuentra un retorno que justifique sustituir humanos por IA
> Starbucks elimina la IA de su sistema por fallos constantes
> Microsoft retira Claude Code a sus ingenieros por no ver mejora en costes
NATURE IS HEALING
Pope Leo: “I ask everyone to abandon the construction of yet another Tower of Babel and to join forces in building up the common good, so that humanity will never lose its beauty.”
Sam Altman:
Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work
“The people are our bosses. The masa, everybody. The street sweeper, the janitor, the security guard etc. are our boss because they elected us. Our powers emanate from the public so we have to respect that.
Kung yung amo namin ay nagtatrabaho, paano naman kaming mga utusan na nakaupo lang at pasarap-sarap? Mag-iinternet lang?
Samantalang 'yung amo namin, kailangan magtiis sa traffic, pumunta sa factory na mainit. Magtatrabaho 'yung construction worker, napaka-init ngayon ng panahon, pumupukpok doon. These are the people paying our salaries, Ms. Karmina, and yet for us in the comforts of our home, airconditioned? We don't need to go to the Senate for session kasi pwede ang teleconferencing, videoconferencing? Kaya nga we objected, nakakahiya!”
The questioning of THE Karmina Constantino and the response of Senator Erwin Tulfo??? LOUDER!!!!
> la IA contaba mal el inventario en Starbucks
> Microsoft bloqueó claude code para sus propios ingenieros
> Uber no encuentra el ROI después de gastar miles de millones en IA
3 derrotas de la IA esta semana en el sector laboral.
WE ARE SO BACK
Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles
• Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’
• Starts next Tuesday
(via @TechCrunch)
Coconut milk and cassava flour are literally the blueprint for traditional dirty ice cream here.
It's so exhausting watching westerners use old recipes from other countries, brand them as "vegan," and act like they’ve magically pioneered something new.