I dunno. Pirating it is still giving them attention. Talking about it, bringing them up, giving them relevance. You’re paying for it with mental space. But when you straight up shun them, they wither away.

Like the great Terry Pratchett (rip), I see them like Small Gods: you give them power when you believe they exist.

Today I learned!

I never read this and I really appreciate the share.

Some parts that spoke to me:

This, I think, is what happens to so many of us when we consider the work of the monster geniuses—we tell ourselves we’re having ethical thoughts when really what we’re having is moral feelings.

Yeah. Guilty.

“The heart wants what it wants.” (Steve Allen when discussing Soon-Yi)

It was one of those phrases that never leaves your head once you’ve heard it: we all immediately memorized it whether we wanted to our not. Its monstrous disregard for anything but the self. Its proud irrationality. Woody goes on: “There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”

I moved on her like a bitch.

I found this fascinating. While I was confused by Allen’s statement and why women found it so disgusting, the Trump parallel made it click.

A great work of art brings us a feeling. And yet when I say Manhattan makes me feel urpy, a man says, No, not that feeling. You’re having the wrong feeling. He speaks with authority: Manhattan is a work of genius. But who gets to say?

Going back to Gaiman, his work is held to a very high standard. But to say you dislike it, you will be met with confusion or even anger. And this is where this piece really spoke to me.

She mentioned a short story she’d just written and published. “Oh, you mean the most recent occasion for your abandoning me and the kids?” asked the very smart, very charming husband. The wife had been a monster, monster enough to finish the work. The husband had not.

A tangent in the essay about women writers. I found it fascinating that when a fuckface like Elon Musk abandoning his more than dozen kids can still rise the ranks. but God forbid a woman does the same.

There really is no answer to this that the author provides.

The tangent I shared is her last thought: does great art only come from monsters? I think a lot about other creative works, painters, comedians film makers… Who does some wild shit but not nearly to the level of Gaiman’s accusations.

Also, like all summaries, read it yourself and find your own takeaways. It’s the nuance, not the summary, that has value.

I worked for a professor like that.

Apparently the guy had complaints like this for years, forcing students to buy HIS BOOKS. ALL OF THEM.

They don’t give a fuck.

Rough.

I wonder how easy it is to spin up your own instance. Or course, that’s out of reach for most non-technical folks.

I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur

The incredible disconnect with the expat community that they are literally immigrants in a foreign country. Don’t visit the expat social groups if you don’t want to be pissed off.

“Go big or go home!” The CEO says as they fire 70% of their staff and now have to take a vacation to recharge at their summer beach house. His major concern? His severance package is only $3 million when his last place gave him $12 million. But this next coke-fueled idea will absolutely get them back to the top!

Thank you! Felt like I was I playing a different game than everyone else.

Everyone mocked Starfield’s Neon for being Discount Cyberpunk. But at least they played it as straight as they could. Like, I could believe people live there and had a life.

It felt like Outer Worlds kept trying to make jokes about how cruel capitalism is versus tell a real story. Like, “Oh boy time to go increase shareholder value!” Or “I love Space nuts. I have to say that or I die.” Like wtf, where’s the subtlety?

It’s not Borderlands 3 bad, no where near it. But it’s pretty bad.

I wish I could be such a PoS where I join a company, propose a massive investment into something, see it’s failure and firing a bunch of staff, then bounce with a nice severance package to join a new company to repeat that over and over again.

Oh was this not a meme about dipshit influencer fighting Mike Tyson?

I thought it was more about young people willing to watch garbage because 🤪🤪🤪 what if how zany 🤪🤪🤪

Thank you! Subscribed and will start passing posts over there.

We saw a man propose to his wife in a cute way. There was a person playing music and he got on his knees. She said yes and people were being supportive.

Then I got down on my knee and proposed to my wife (again). My wife said no and walked away.

I then quietly left the area to the awkward strangers, turned the corner to find my wife laughing at me.

This is the way.

If they’re a shit website, I’m a lot more spiteful and put their content on the way back machine or post it publicly somewhere.

Pretty sure they took a photo of you. Then they hung it in the back of the store on their “Check out this guy” board. Under your photo, they wrote “ordered two, like a psychopath.”

They also posted to chipotlebook, which is a secret social media platform for chipotle workers. Your photo has 12000 comments and 16823 laugh emojis.

Your photo was also shared in the Chipotle shadow council. There’s a bean counter (pinto) noticing you’re willing to buy two burritos and eat them in a single trip. He does some calculations, and realizes that money making opportunity here. Where the texmex realm mocked you, he sees you as his golden goose. The new “Double Stuffed Burrito” makes bajillions. He’s been carrying your photo on his wallet.

The world cares more than you think.

…so we don’t hear the ones that actually do know.

But we do?

Like, you can search for a professional’s answer on it. Then review their references to how they came to that conclusion. Then you can literally look at research paper. Then ask another professional to review that research paper as well.

The root issue is even with all of that, these chuds are still shouting “fake news” about it.

No doubt about it.

The original drama started off on shakey ground like it was about using the WordPress branding and WPEngine not contributing.

Which, okay I can see his perspective even if I disagree.

But then his not one, but TWO “If you hate my direction, then quit”. Then not one, but TWO “Well we might not return to contribute” threats.

Sounds like his for-profit company is slowly sinking and he’s looking for something to blame that isn’t him.

A for-profit CEO controlling the direction of a open-source project is a big fucking problem

+1 for Joplin.

Been using it for two weeks and already, I’m loving its light weight feel.

Everything is markdown. Easy to upload images. AWS backups.