They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
That’s from “The Great Gatsby,” published 101 years ago, and perfectly describing the Epstein White House and its sexual predation and wars.
5 things nobody tells you when you move from ChatGPT to Claude. Good tips, despite clickbait headline.
Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes.
My reaction on reading the headline: “Hell yeah! Kick that sad bastard to the curb!”
But the article provides details that make the situation more complicated:
Yes, what that reporter did was wrong and unprofessional and he has acknowledged that publicly and apologized on social media.
Where was his manager to tell him that he was impaired and should just stay in bed and watch YouTube?
Mr. T on his hairstyle, gold chains and why he called himself “Mr. T”— He’s reclaiming his African heritage and defying racism. This brief interview is strikingly articulate and intelligent in the context of his being typecast as a brute during his acting career.
Tig Notaro steals every scene she appears in.
I’m glad we stuck with “Starfleet Academy,” because the most recent two episodes, which we watched Saturday, were brilliant. The most recent episode may have been the only time I’ve been deeply emotionally moved watching “Star Trek.”
And now I want to see “Our Town” again. I love that play and haven’t seen it since 2003, when the Paul Newman production aired.
Jay-den has seemed to be a delicate, hesitant character, but when his shipmate is threatened, Jay-den goes full Klingon. No hesitation there!
Caleb can be a dick a lot of the time, but he understands consent in his bones. And he and Nahla have great bantering repartee.
Cory Doctorow: Democrats should create a “Nuremberg Caucus” to investigate MAGA crimes and restore the damage Trump and his enablers have done to America.
On the Democratic Party Style:
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered, outside academia, people with such a bottomless appetite for mountainous piles of meaningless, unnecessary, empty words and phrases, each genetically engineered, in whole or in part, to make any sentient being stop paying attention. Reading this speech, that is the only conclusion I can come to: that the sole purpose of this speech is to make people stop paying attention.
