Will Destiny the humanoid robot take your job? Futuristic commercial robots are being developed in a village where many once worked as coal miners.

No, but Destiny’s child might. I’m a survivor.

Engagement. Lots of users here choose not to follow accounts that don't consistently include alt text -- nor to like / repost / comment on posts that contain images without alt text. I'm one of them; I know I've made that clear plenty of times. I'm not alone. (2/)

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman, in a glossy black catsuit costume, standing on outdoor brick steps, wearing black cat ears and mask, a gold chain necklace with a round medallion, matching gold belt and accessories.

Sure, and rarities.

What was I like in the nineties? Unbearable, nothing’s changed.

Delicious sandwiches in freshly baked buns | Tut's Egyptian Street Food Fresh ingredients, bold flavors, and fast service for the ultimate street food experience!

Alexa, where does a mummy go for some late-night dosa and omelet?

Eartha Kitt - Just An Old Fashioned Girl YouTube video by sniman11

On Earth Day, I’m listening to some Eartha.

Tech, medicine, scam—checks all desi boxes.

Europe has really launched ahead of the United States in “bathroom stall that goes all the way to the floor” technology

Due to a set of rules he imposed on himself, Paul Young spent most of the 80s living in a hatstand.

A thing about the heaviest users of chatbots is that they acclimate to cloying obsequiousness. Like a billionaire and their entourage of viziers, it becomes normal to them.

Any interaction that is *not* abject simpering they'll now perceive as a slap to the face, an aggressively violent outburst.

I’m so middle-aged that my recent social media posts include a picture of spring flowers and a story about a teenage boy being kind to an old woman on public transport

All I’m saying is if I was going to write a book about a boy who never grew up, I wouldn’t have called him Peter Pan. I would’ve named him Constanteen.

Giving a lie specific details adds verisimilitude, so I’m going
to call in sick claiming hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Or maybe St. Vitus’ Dance; my boss leans old-school.

Years ago I decided that taking one day off after travel to recover, do laundry, etc, was an overall gain in work efficiency for the week following a trip. I highly recommend this strategy! Also I am terrible at actually implementing it and I may need to file a formal complaint against myself.

A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

“True,” I say, to something I didn’t even hear.

Reading a well-written takedown of a person I have long despised is such a wonderful feeling
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

കട്ട വെയിറ്റിംഗ്.

One of those പ്രാന്തൻമാർ was ഞാൻ. We’d say watching that movie was a hobby of sorts.

That’s the joke I was going for, but I wouldn’t put it past them either.

Tom Cruise movies are so unrealistic. You never see him struggling to reach something on a high shelf.

Desmond Morris obituary: natural world expert Zoologist, broadcaster and author best known for The Naked Ape dies aged 98

A fascinating obituary of Magdalen alumnus Desmond Morris, who has died aged 98.
www.thetimes.com/article/1daa...

Desmond Morris was very important to me because he wrote about gay people in his book The Naked Ape and it was the first time I'd ever read or heard a description of gay people that wasn't sneering or judgemental. It was thrilling.
About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so.
RIP Mr Morris

RIP Desmond Morris, a gifted science communicator whose book The Naked Ape (1967) broke daring new ground in creating elaborate evo-psych justifications for an earlobe fetish

It's not just one thing — it's another thing | TechCrunch This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guar...

It’s not just the Guardian, it’s also TechCrunch.

I feel seen. Great read!

A lot of silent, respectful nodding at this Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit. And one guy in the back who just won't stop whispering "Nice."

Did you know that if you stop being overly considerate nothing happens except you get your time and energy back from entitled people? I didn’t.

The dishwasher is the most coddled appliance. You have to do its job before it can do its job.

Aww. I know I’d be opalesque against you in a Rosetta Stone fight, for obsidian reasons.