tangerineman

made an account for this stupid website just in time for it to die

[Forrest Cardamenis @FCardamenis]

Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.

[Godzilla Ganker @2Josher]

George Lucas did not script this moment. Warwick Davis and Watto became friends on set. This is their genuine reaction and it was so good that they kept it in the film

[Eshan @eshanbuilds]

The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove.

Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001. About a dozen early employees were in the room, working through what their core values should be. The conversation had stalled on the kind of polite corporate statements that nobody disagrees with and nobody remembers.

Buchheit later explained why he picked those three words instead. He wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out. He framed it as a jab at competitors who he felt were already exploiting their users.

Amit Patel, another engineer from the same meeting, scribbled the phrase on whiteboards across the company for months until it stuck. It went into the founding letter of the 2004 IPO prospectus. It sat at the top of the corporate code of conduct for seventeen years.

Then in 2018, Google quietly removed it from the preface.

The timing is the part everyone forgets. In March of that year, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract called Project Maven, building AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.

The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.

Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface. A Gizmodo reporter caught it by comparing Wayback Machine snapshots. Google never announced the removal.

What I find clarifying about the sequence is what it means structurally. The motto was designed in 2001 by an engineer who wanted a sentence his bosses could not erase if the company drifted. Seventeen years later, with the company being publicly accused of building drone targeting AI, his own employer responded by quietly erasing the sentence.

He had been right about exactly one thing. The phrase was hard to take out. It took a Pentagon scandal to do it.

Buchheit, who left Google in 2006, is now a partner at Y Combinator. He has not commented publicly on the removal.

[jerry @ANerdNamedJerry]

tbh I don't laugh at people for reaching for like symbolic meanings n shit anymore because i realized yeah maybe the author just meant the curtains were blue but somebody else thought it could mean more than that and that's beautiful

[Dream's Longest Day @Dreamboum]

Can you believe the Live a Live fan translation is 25 years old? It only released seven years after the original Japanese release.

It took *26* years to have an official release with the remake. Fantranslations are the backbone of this culture. We owe them everything

[Shire Propagandist @ShirePropaganda]

Lucas addresses this in the prequels. Obi Wan is simply racist against droids, thinks they're stupid, and has cut through thousands of them without blinking

[もぎたてブロッコリー🔰 @mogitatekantyou]

零れ落ちてゆく……

[Etienne Law @law_etienne]

I feel so sorry for Anime only Dorohedoro fans- because holy shit what a cliffhanger

[有田 満弘 Illustrator @MitsuhiroArita]

[Old Work] #PokemonTCG
I drew them
#MitsuhiroArita

[organ caffeine || DOROHEDORO ZINE @OrganBean]

yea #dorohedoro #ドロヘドロ

[BRYN_BORANGA @BRYN_BORANGA]

I am once again thinking of William Shatner going through a profound existential crisis after being in space, trying to explain the terrifying emptiness he felt whilst Jeff Bezos sprayed champagne in his face and interrupted him to say 'WAZZUUP' whilst dabbing to Barenaked Ladies

[Venom Walter | Open Commisions @VenomWalter_art]

A little fanart of Dorohedoro due it's final episode, can't wait for the next one!!

[Squiggles @heisei_ramen]

WIRED, USA: “Here’s why the CIA is actually good.”

WIRED, Japan: “Hey, isn’t it weird that this massive ‘anime’ company is having an ‘awards ceremony’ in the middle of Tokyo despite having no Japanese judges or users and charging Japanese attendees 3x admission?”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

You can’t keep saying something is a government conspiracy when you are literally the government

[Arvis4Prez - Playing TMGC @arvis4prez]

Idk how anyone could hate on Shadow Dragon when it’s dropping bars all the time

[Excelblem @excelblem]

by this logic if I get good enough at these modes they will retroactively become fair and balanced

[Gale Na @poisonjr]

serf named claude being liberated:

[DG @depressedgundam]

Hathaway is peak