Vishal Venkatesh

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“How do we support the victims” is a more interesting one to me.

Okay fine. I’ll start the conversation: This Euros, a UEFA Golden Spine award for Mbappe and Thuram. 👏👏

Rewatched A Simple Favor. Somebody please explain it to me like I’m five. Did Stephanie seriously do all that to expose… insurance fraud? What kind of a hater does that? #filmsky

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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

Yo why didn’t anyone tell me Donald Glover’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith was this good

Would’ve never guessed I was gonna miss Ash Ketchum like this

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I never know how to react when a grown person says “it’s all supply and demand.”

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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The Fall Guy was a great movie holy crap.

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Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.businessinsider.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

Didn’t trust anyone who wasn’t obsessed with the Hunger Games movies

funny (sexist!) how men in culture criticism have a hard time “connecting” with women-led tv and film while women in culture criticism have no problem finding the inner sadgirl in leading men

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It's amazing how geo-politics guys are repeatedly surprised when crises and wars emerge out of social dynamics, and yet they always go back immediately to their beloved world-as-chess-game, geo-politics-speak to search for explanations and solutions.

I have *never* picked up a book because of an author’s social media posts or follower base.

Broom is such a funny-sounding word. Unrelated but I get why witches flew on a broom. Just so much fun.

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Overheard someone say “He was fun but the sex was vanilla” and I was like, come on, no sex is that good.

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have the people hating on FALL GUY experienced any joy in their lives

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Whether it’s at college or a difficult job, I feel like everybody needs to have that moment in their young adulthood where they realize “oh man, I actually don’t know very much at all”

Colleges that choose to use Blackboard over Canvas just do not care

Nothing is funnier than Benoit Blanc being Daniel Craig’s most iconic character.

Tremendous success. Waiting for Netflix to make Morbius v.s. Madame Web now. Madame Morbin’??

People keep calling bad movies that failed in theaters "streaming successes" but that's like saying no one at the black tie dinner party liked your burnt chicken wings but then later they were a Big Success with some drunk college students

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our plagiarism machine vacuums up garbage and dumps it on you, which is, in fact, your fault

@NBCNews: Social media has been buzzing with examples of Google’s new, “experimental” AI tool going awry. A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are deliberately attempting to trip up the technology with uncommon questions. https://t.co/Wj9iuKzzHk

I can’t stop. AI says hiring a third #Batman actor will save the DC universe.

AI says firing one more manager will complete BlueCo’s project #ChelseaFC

AI says you should bet your savings on Gamestop

AI says if you cut your finger, or scrapped your knee - pour bleach on it to kill microbes.

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i'm so old i remember when we called this shit 'spyware'

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Note: It doesn’t matter if OpenAI used any of Scarlett Johansson’s actual voice samples. She still has a viable right of publicity case here. www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1...

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voicewww.npr.org Johansson says she was approached multiple times by OpenAI to be the voice of ChatGPT, and that she declined. Then the company released a voice assistant that sounded uncannily like her.

Ange Postecoglou is bigger than #Tottenham

Not just with artists

The myth of the abusive male genius needs to die. There are very few whose contributions to society are really worth being conflicted over in contrast to the abuse they unleashed. I promise you there was a woman or non-binary person or even a decent man around whose art was just as good

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The slew of preemptive articles about Megalopolis’ “excess,” that embarrassing Deadline interview with Kevin Costner reading like a cross-examination for the crime of spending too much money on a passion project, it’s amazing that trades still just dutifully attack even the mildest artistic ambition