tried to look up the significance of a costume choice in a piece of historical fiction i’m watching and roared laughing by myself at 3am
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Wow, I did not know that! Great tip everyone!
Folger Library offer free online-only subscription which gets you access to JSTOR and a load of other stuff!
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“Alien is a rape movie with male victims and it also shows the consequences of that rape: the pregnancy and birth. It is a film that plays, very deliberately, with male fears of female reproduction” from 2005 Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Alien and Predator Films
Y'all, Alien was a feminist masterwork. The entire plot of the movie is a bunch of dudes refuse to believe the woman, who is smarter than all of them. As a result, everyone else dies except for the smart woman and her cat.
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I was vaguely aware that Trump said something about Heaven and was mentally like "nope, not investigating"
but it seems that was actually a mistake this time bc skdjflmao
worriedly saying "I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole" about Heaven is so fucking funny
potentially the funniest thing he’s said yet
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📌 Ukraine 💙💛
Pourquoi l’ouest de Donetsk -Donbas est important L’ »échange de terres « de #putinKGB est vraiment une prise pour la ceinture de forteresse de l’ #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #putinTheKillerFromPetersburg veut que #trumppedoKrasnov lui assure ce que 🧵
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Putin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress belt
He wants Trump to secure for him what Russia’s army cannot
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
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The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy: a centuries-old treasure now accessible online...
Web – La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne : un trésor séculaire désormais accessible en ligne
Web – La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne : un trésor séculaire désormais accessible en ligne
Accès : ici KBR conserve 279 manuscrits issus de la prestigieuse Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne. Grâce à un ambitieux projet de numérisation, cette collection exceptionnelle est désormais entièrem…
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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Duolingo's CEO has been vocal about replacing human staff with trash AI that's more likely to get translations wrong and make your learning subpar.
Stop using Duolingo. Uninstall it. Leave comments and reviews that you'll come back once they put people first again.
Despite customer backlash to AI focus, analysts see Duolingo on track for steady growth as it rolls out new features and expands into music. https://sherwood.news/markets/duolingo-rises-after-ceo-defends-ai-first-strategy-in-ny-times-interview/
Duolingo rises after CEO defends “AI-first” strategy in NY Times interview
Despite customer backlash to AI focus, analysts see Duolingo on track for steady growth as it rolls out new features and expands into music....
