sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · yesterday

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

w. what do they think we all did before AI.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

“Could a non-agentic workflow… do THIS?” (I burn 69 billion tokens and a dogshit MMO from 1996 pops out. It’s unclear what kind of point I was trying to make.)

smashed my head into learning to set up a remote repo for version control for my project. the errors gave up before my skull did. victory for my single braincell.

you'll be astonished to learn that i didn't even ask to write this: they asked *me*

Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterday

Happy 25th birthday to Golden Sun https://kotaku.com/25-years-ago-golden-sun-video-game-adventure-2000721340

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

this is literally what I do for a living and it's called "blameless root cause" where you identify everything that went wrong without assigning blame to any one person in particular. the NTSB really went all in on this and it's one of the reasons airplane travel is/(was?) so safe in the US.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterday

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

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I'm just so fucking tired of people being like "no, the free market is working!" and then ignoring all the ways that we don't actually have a free market and our markets are owned by like, twenty men in trench coats.

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

1 like = 1 mundane fact about me. Tea but it’s lukewarm. Wait, that doesn’t sound very appealing-

Ariel Slamet Ries@arielries.bsky.social · 3d ago

1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me hit me

babes, we ALL subsidize shit we may never use all the damn time, it’s called living in a society

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

one of the coolest things about the internet is that you can tell a writer/artist/etc that you like their stuff, and they'll probably see it

Endless cycle

Sorry to harp on this, but these CEOs keep bringing up the idea of a "public square" and I don't think they've ever been to a public square. I don't have the right to talk to anyone in a real-life public square! People get to tell me to go away.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I loved the NYT Sunday puzzle for years. Never missed one. When they started platforming transphobic nonsense, I unsubscribed. Simple as.

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2d ago

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

inspired, xiaoya sits down to compose a tune on her pipa.

we can't backslide on this, crunch kills your brain, studios coming out and saying they're going to crunch like it's some reasonable expectation should be shunned

Mike Crassweller@zoomba.bsky.social · 3d ago

This might be one of the most unhinged job requirement bullet points I've seen. How are we still doing this in 2026? "Willingness to be on-call for live issue firefighting and to crunch around critical shipping periods to support major content launches."

That's the basis of 'but this is a plot hole' discourse, and the ungodly, rotting husk of Cinema Sins and it's host of shitty offspring. The assumption that a story is a contest and if you understand it you beat it goes hand in hand with the belief that if something isn't on screen it's a plot hole

"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald

Middling Expectations

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Downplay a book or movie: The Chemist

oh, this is an easy solve*: get your spouse into warhammer too *side effects include ‘now neither of you have money’

Eryn@erinyes.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

And now, as a treat, here's a bumblebee on the milkweed

Fun fact: this was unintentional

Maybe: Steven@ikiguy.bsky.social · 3d ago

massive respect for Arakawa-sensei, who set out in her latest series to improve on Edward Elric by making her just the grungiest lesbian