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Slander. The CDC is helping the brain fungus immensely.

A functional HR department (or, like, Greenhouse) will send the candidate a rejection email 2-3 days after the hiring manager pushes the Reject button in the hiring portal.

If you haven't read it, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model is written from the POV of a robot butler that starts out without a personality and develops one over the course of the book

I dunno, Chester Cheetah canonically lost a (court) fight with Tom Waits

Hey, I read part of that book and then gave up!

I assume it's because people getting drive-thru at 2AM have been Up To Some Things and haven't subsequently washed their hands before touching all over their burrito

If the Nuremberg 2.0 trials are structured as extradition hearings to countries against which these folks have crimed (boat strikes, Iran, Denmark, etc.) then the normal appeal/pardon channels will be unavailable once that outcome is effected. Let Hegseth stand trial in Bogota or Tehran.

This is the first time I have ever seen "the rabbit done died" in the wild.

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty. Locked-room murder mystery (with heavy nods to Asimov) about a group of clones aboard a spaceship who wake up into their own murder scene, and have to suspect their own previous copies as well as the others.

Declare, by Tim Powers. John LeCarre-type bleak cold war novel but the cold war is supernatural Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero. The Scooby Doo gang grew up to be disaffected GenX adults whose lives are a mess, but what if the rubber masks hid a Lovecraftian horror all along?

The two-step is to redefine supporting gay and trans minors with info or medical care as sex crimes against children and start executing school librarians and gender clinic doctors

This was the tell that A Million Little Pieces was a crock of shit a million years ago. In hindsight Oprah Winfrey is upstream of so much harm.

Mel only got paid for voicing the Road Runner once though - it's the same meep-meep in every cartoon.

I worked in a food photography studio that had 2 full time chefs. The policy was that all food that showed up in a picture had to be edible. So no glue. What they would do though is pack a pot full of mashed potatoes and put a 2" layer of bouillabaisse over it to save ingredient $.

[Guy in act 3 of The Metal-Eating Guy, tasting the gun he just pulled down from the mantel]: Eww, it's gone off!

Local OSS models are supposedly 6 months behind frontier models in code quality. Once today-level Claude capability is something you can run on prem for <$7200 (3 years @ $200/mo depreciated), the bottom drops out. Which will make GPUs cheaper in an accelerating cycle.

The MacBook is a beautiful machine, but Office on a MacBook is dire, especially Excel.

Half of Milli Vanilli *IS* dead.

Also their live show is staffed by ultra elite collegiate divers.

I think a geometrically escalating scale of copyright renewal fees for 14 or 28 year terms meets the needs of most stakeholders. When renewal costs more than it's worth works revert to the public domain - the breakpoint is just different for a Scalzi vs a Disney and priced accordingly.