You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

a great blog defector.com/dianna-russi...

so do i have to become a shoe company and *then* pivot to AI, or can i just skip that step and still get billions showered on me by the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet

infinite multiverse theory holds that somewhere there's a timeline where my full-time job is Improbable Garth Brooks Pundit and there's a viral video of me absolutely eviscerating a panelist who left It's Midnight Cinderella, Not Counting You and That Summer out of their top 10 garth bops list.

a dear friend has just said the most dangerous sentence a loved one can say to me: 'can you make me a Garth Brooks starter pack.' yes. yes i can. it will be three times as many songs as it should be, but yes.

make the brownshirts bead a Taylor Swift friendship bracelet that says "just following orders" in glittery comic sans, and then ask them to write down all the characteristics it shares with a garotte while the jury of Minneapolitans deliberates.

really hope these assholes bring their decoy "girly suitcases" with them to Nuremberg 2.0 when it's their turn. happy to let them slap any stickers they want onto the rope assigned to em.

Force Majeure if you like your audio mixing tidy and all moments of dialog comprehensible at first encounter, or McCabe & Mrs. Miller if not

aw man, I didn't realize Todd Snider died suddenly a few months ago.

shuddapuddemm, shoulda put em onnnn again/so I could see you see me sincerely yellin back

apparently Limbaugh used to use this as bumper music? (my 3 years at media matters never had me on the Limbaugh beat, thank god)

thank you for this, listening for the first time and cackling

some pretty solid replies lol

RETVRN!!!!

(i kid, of course -- my understanding of those two excellent novels has always basically been 'it's all of us doing all of this entirely to ourselves, gradually, through inertia, desperation, and best intentions, and eventually we will create in the aggregate what we abhor at itemized level.')

The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was.

Jennifer Egan: i wrote A Visit From The Goon Squad as a cautionary tale
marketing firm: at long lost we have created the Goon Squad www.wired.com/story/geese-...

ummmm was I not clear above in re: this all ultimately being About Me. (I'm just so glad you're both still in the information conveyance business. you're each quite good at it.)

oh hey, it's my old coworker QTing my old roommate! (love you both, miss you both, hope you're both hanging in there!)

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

as someone who lived through "juicero" I really thought I was immune to shocked frustration at what companies get called now. but "byrna" really chaps my ass.

(erpo laws are good tho, in general! I'm glad baseball fans are learning about them! I just....I just don't live where that one is? please tell people how it works where they actually live?)

laughing but also relieved, cause that shit really caught me out the other day. (in between all the ads from some kind of less lethal handgun?)

The most vindicated man on the internet was the guy that tried, in vain, to make people understand you do actually need some decent firepower to deal with the Wild Hawg problem.

and if you're wondering, wait does this mean at one point or another Alan has yell-sung "Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Ursulaaaa...von der Leyennnnn" like that one part in the song near the apex? the answer is yes.

(Robert Plant "Nobody's Fault But Mine" voice) Ursula von der Leyen

Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍

basically I just wanna know if there's a chance some mid-level Hungarian party operative got to text their friends some 2 Chainz content as results came in here

far from the most pressing question for the world about this, but it's for now the most important one in my specific brain: can anybody confirm my hope that the Hungarian political party "Tisza" is pronounced like the American name Teisha?

if you can't handle me at my "fuck these six fish in particular," you don't deserve me at my "Bill Stickers is innocent"

anyway gotta do my taxes. this will be the first time in like 20 years that I waited until April to do my taxes. gotta pay into the death cult that used to be something more noble!