A directing problem, not an acting issue, but I can't stop thinking about how that HOTD episode would have been monumentally more powerful if D'Arcy hadn't already been Claire Danesing their way through every previous episode.

Is there anything more humiliating about being alive in this moment than an AI tech support chatbot asking how you are?

I'm mistakenly on two NYT newsletter lists so I frequently get to see their A/B tests. Yesterday's query: are people turned off by the mere mention of books?

Sorry to say, but I got my first mosquito bites tonight in Brooklyn. It's been an incredible three weeks of being outside during that slice in the timeline between pollen allergy and bug bite seasons, friends. It's been real nice.

Has someone done a "How The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure Paved the Way for Q Anon" think piece

I'm gonna assume there was a legitimate reason, for my sanity, but today the city removed the biggest, most gorgeous tree across the street from my apartment, roots and all—the one that I've been staring at happily for seven years—and the devastation I've felt is immense, unreasonable maybe.

MyChart just made me log for new information posted in the portal to ask me if I wanted to donate a kidney

The first company that emails me and is like "Hey we commit to never integrating AI into our operations/products/business/interface ever or your cash back" is getting so much money from me.

Dumbest idiot you've ever known with "wordsmith" on their LinkedIn profile

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Re: the Richard Dawkins thing, did any of you have a wacky 7th grade science teacher who put raisins in Mountain Dew to demonstrate not to be so stupid to be tricked about what is alive & what isn't? Anyway I think about Mrs. Gerardi & her raisins every time some idiot man is like "AI is sentient"

Anyone else noticing that (extremely unrelated) brands are sending emails with the same subject lines on the same days/times now? I'm assuming they're suggested by AI in MailChimp or whatever based on day/time/etc., but it's become a very weird and very obvious thing in my promos tab every day.

I blinked and interior decorating has gone full blown 80s

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I never had any urge to get married but getting forever paperwork with a guy who breaks down ten years in and yells I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BUT YOU WASH DISHES LIKE A DICKHEAD is absolutely worth getting married for. This shit is hilarious. I wanna be 78 years old and still getting read for filth.

You guys without seasonal allergies think you’re so tough huh

Quick - let's turn off all the lights on the planet while Artemis is on the dark side of the moon

Really love how everyone interprets each and every piece of artwork as fable now. Really exceptional, healthy culture we have here.

The Oscar goes to all the brooches

I still can't believe Jesse Plemons wasn't nominated

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"Babe I'm sorry but I don't think we can flee the country on points" is a real thing my husband just said to me as I weighed some upcoming travel pros and cons aloud and he could sense the precise unspoken reason for my hesitation. Fuck, I've been caught out as a human being.

Haven't really been to movies since prior to the pandemic, have started going back recently, and man... people just talk through movies now, huh? Real different social contract in theaters now. I feel v old.

I have one sole strong feeling about the AI future and it’s that eventually every single ad you see on your devices will have you in it. Person cleaning their kitchen with new soap product? You. Buying Alpo at the pet store? You. A hotter, better you maybe. But you.

It's bountiful, the dogshit

Tempted to Boomer Dad “well look who just woke up” to the G train when it gets here

I think about this maybe, like, once a week. Like how do we explain to these people that raw milk is exactly the same as regular milk but it has cow shit in it

Had to stop reading this for sanity but this genre of writing can only be described as "the note that lady with the crazy eyes in your apartment building tapes to the communal front door"

It's currently snowing in Brooklyn precisely the way it begins to snow when two people realize they love each other in a movie

A reminder that the only single reason for something like this is eugenicist thinking, and that they not only don't care that people will die, but they want them to

My favorite thing about socks is how they slowly suffocate your feet until you can't take it anymore

My favorite thing about British actors doing American accents is the Mickey Mouse pitch with the Minnesota cum New York inflection

My favorite thing about Emily in Paris is that all the love interests are doofy sweet interchangeable pushovers and they all gain 20lbs of muscle mass between each season

For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

They're bad at literally everything, including kerning

Wish one of you had had the decency to tell me what sichuan peppercorns were before tonight when I tried a new dish and fully convinced myself I HAD RABIES

This is the only quiz that matters

Is it Cyber Monday or is it Giving Tuesday Eve, she wonders, once again, to herself

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the annual @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch makes me laugh SO hard that a top reward tier should simply be a recommending something equally as funny

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

N+1 bookmatch quiz exactly as delightful as I've heard

Everyone’s teeth are too big now. I understand the appeal of veneers sure but the mouths, they’re barely closed

My Bookmatch results from @nplusonemag.com include 3 books I've read and one that I own but haven't cracked yet. Let NO ONE say this isn't scientifically calibrated! Excited for the rest.

Tonight our mailman got into a tussle with some of our neighbors and one guy brought a giant branch from down the block to threaten him with! Which was sad because I love our mailman! But I think he may have slept with my neighbor's wife

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.