She/Her at long last. Death before detransition.
Is Cargill a farmer, then? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill
Cargill - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgSarah TaberSo IMO "owning a farm" does in fact make one a farmer. If the person who owns the place, decides what will be grown, how workers' lives will be valued, etc isn't a farmer, then nobody is. The trick is that "being a farmer" just isn't magic. It doesn't mean someone is hardworking, smart, good, etc.
“Every time I make the (correct) statement that online sports betting is not universally bad for adults, or state that the best consensus is that it's beneficial-to-neutral for many and any negative effects are a small subset of adults, people demand citations”
Taylor LorenzYup. People, especially on the left, simply do not want to engage with facts or reality. It’s easier to spout Heritage foundation talking points
Love the passive construction here, like it's a force of nature making firms replace people who might be able to improvise a solution to your problem with uncanny-valley robot voices that trap you in time-wasting mazes until you die or otherwise go away
Bloomberg NewsAI has begun to decimate human customer service operations, a shift that will cause almost half of the industry to vanish by 2030
I just love watching us stumble into World War III in the stupidest way possible
Al Jazeera EnglishKyiv warns Iran against escalation after Ukraine’s Caspian Sea attack https://aje.news/dycboq
“Here’s a thought experiment: imagine Instagram, but every single post is a video of paint drying. Same infinite scroll. Same autoplay. Same algorithmic recommendations. Same notification systems. Is anyone addicted?” is like asking if you can play craps with a pair of dice that only roll snake eyes
Listening to a rip of Kokoku from my vinyl of Mister Heartbreak and realizing it's been 41 years since I saw Laurie Anderson perform it live and perform a gender expression that helped me survive. Hang on to life, girl. Can't see tomorrow without living through today www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stz4...
KokokuYouTube video by Laurie Anderson - Topicwww.youtube.com“We admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not shit?”
Bloomberg NewsWe admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?
McNamara's biggest private-sector fuckup, topped at last by Space Nazi Musk. Fitting, somehow
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.