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ChatGPT is coming to a phone near you -- (link) - decline May 18, 11:39 2
- I'm pretty sure I've had telemarketing robo calls where it responds to your words -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 11:59
- ChatGPT, answer this call from a family member as if I were interested. -- nm - Max May 18, 11:42
PowerWash Simulator is about to get a whole lot wetter with a new SpongeBob crossover DLC, arriving this "summer"!! -- nm - decline May 18, 11:37 1
- *nathan fillion gif* -- nm* - oblique May 18, 11:50
Apple goes multiview: Apple TV 4K devices now let you watch up to four Major League Soccer or Friday Night Baseball games on the Apple TV app -- (link) - decline May 18, 11:30 1
- does MLB do a per-team subscription? i might pay if i could just get Dodgers/O's games -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 11:38
Disney Imagineering Relocation to Lake Nona, Florida Has Been Canceled -- (link*) - budice May 18, 11:16 13
- Newsom responds -- (link) - Remlik May 18, 11:54
- Given how important imagineers are to Disney, this seems like a big decision from them. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 11:44 1
  - Its a Billion Dollar spend + employee thing -- nm - budice May 18, 11:45
- Email to Staff: D'Amaro says "they will no longer be asking our employees to relocate." For those who already moved," the company will work w/you -- (link*) - budice May 18, 11:28
- NYT -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 11:21 2
  - i was thinking how the unionized park workers would respond if the WGA (possibly SAG next) started picketing the WDW/Disneyland gates -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 18, 11:24 1
    - Would that be allowed though? It’s not a work site for the affected workers… -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 18, 11:28
- I need a vacation. -- nm - David May 18, 11:19 1
  - You're going to Disneyworld? -- nm - ty97 May 18, 11:25
- What's Disney Imagineering? -- nm - decline May 18, 11:17 3
  - "works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions." -- nm* - ty97 May 18, 11:22 1
    - Yikes. - Pippy Quintas May 18, 11:30
  - theme park designers, i.e., "eat shit, DeSantis" -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 11:21
nobody wants your shitty basic cable shit in their paid streams my dude -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 11:05 2
- They should bundle a whole bunch of the services together and call it Cable+ -- nm - decline May 18, 11:09 1
  - also, saying it out loud like this is just ringing the FTC dinner bell - hollywood big shot May 18, 11:11
Ed Sheerhan won another copyright case -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 18, 10:56
another collections suit against deadbeat Elon -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 10:41 1
- He will just respond to it with a poop emoji. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 10:44
Indy Premiere moment when Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart arrive at his seat and she realizes Cannes assigned her the row behind him -- (link) - budice May 18, 10:35 4
- Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Ethann Isidore, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, James Mangold, Harrison Ford, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Mads Mikkelson -- (link) - budice May 18, 10:48
- oh Harrison. fucking leave with her till they fix the seating arranegments -- nm - Beaker May 18, 10:43 1
  - Will Smith would still be slapping the shit out of people -- nm - Beaker May 18, 10:44
- Classic Ally -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 10:36
Guess we really are growing. Added 100 Microsoft 365 licenses in the past month -- nm - oblique May 18, 10:26 2
- Keep trying to use Azure Capacity Mgmt Tools to shrink underused systems. Only to grow out of it shortly after. -- nm - budice May 18, 10:28 1
  - Installing my first Server 2022 today (just to run a business app licensing service) but it's a good step. We've almost gotten all our 2016 shut down - oblique May 18, 11:10
Phoenix is building a $1B resort which will have an 8k person amphitheater venue, where the hotel balconies will be viewing areas. -- (link) - MDH May 18, 10:25 3
- People will also have to drink their own urine cause they won't have any drinkable water in 5 years -- nm - Beaker May 18, 10:26 2
  - It is a privilege to pee -- nm - oblique May 18, 10:27 1
    - One must take care not to become addicted to one's own pee. -- nm - Immortan Joey si May 18, 10:29
WGA: Producers are willing to pay scabs via Venmo and whisk them out of the country -- (link) - budice May 18, 10:17
“THOR has never been tested against these types of drones before, but this did not stop the system from dropping the targets out of the sky with its - JD May 18, 09:56
SCOTUS rules on some website issues regarding suits/terrorism -- (link) - Pippy Quintas May 18, 09:51 10
- I can't believe I like a ruling from this court. I'm happy to see these outcomes. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 10:26 7
  - have fun suing any tech company when they ruin your life in any actionable way -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 10:38 6
    - Not something I'm really concerned about and I don't think they're responsible for what everyone posts on their site. - Krusty May 18, 10:48 3
      - And if my life is ruined by something someone posted it's not the site's fault. It's the person that posted the info. - Krusty May 18, 10:51 2
        
        i know you (and the tech companies) want to frame this as a pure free speech issue but Sec 230 as applied goes far beyond what users post -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 11:07 1
        
        So they can amend the law. They don't need to get rid of it completely. - Krusty May 18, 12:00
    - But it also means that Bery can't get sued -- nm - JD May 18, 10:47 1
      - for what? the risk to individuals like Bery has to be weighed against the cost of letting the Airbnbs and Twitters of the world skate 100% on liability -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 18, 10:49
- The internet is saved -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ May 18, 09:58 1
  - well the providers are saved from ever having to see the inside of a courtroom -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 10:16
Buckley always was a big dipshit -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:41 1
- Just wow. That review is certainly something. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 09:54
In honor of ty97's mention below, Kylie Minogue has released a new single "Padam Padam" - here's the video. -- (link) - MDH May 18, 09:34 [youtube] 4
- Good track. -- nm - LMS May 18, 10:30
- I knew it! Kylie bases all of her career choices based on ty's online activity. -- nm - Dano May 18, 09:46 1
  - She's very in touch with her fans. -- nm - MDH May 18, 09:47
- Does it go "Padam padam. Pa pa pi da da. Padam padam. Pa pa pi da" - Roger More May 18, 09:44
Does this article ever name the school district or the complaining parent? - TWuG May 18, 09:24 4
- relatedly, the Dodgers organization should be ashamed of getting duped by Marco Rubio -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:39 1
  - Saw that on last night's news :( -- (link) - Meg May 18, 10:18
- Had to search a few other stories to learn it is Heyworth in Bloomington. -- nm - TWuG May 18, 09:28 1
  - Heyworth is near but a separate district from Blm. - Dark Callisto May 18, 09:40
oh to be a GOP consultant in 2024 looking for easy work at an extortionate billing rate -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:16 5
- He can give me $100 to tell him it's a bad idea. -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 09:59 1
  - you can get a lot more tho -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 10:05
- Elections make money for those gettin paid to run them -- nm - budice May 18, 09:30
- 2024 has found its Connor -- nm - rollo May 18, 09:21 1
  - alas North Dakota. the Conheads are coming -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:22
sounds like the Warhol estate just got bonked by SCOTUS for using a copyrighted photo of Prince in one of Andy's paintings -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:10
lol Zalsav said this publicly with a straight face? "Republicans are back on the air. Republicans weren't on the air" -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:05
SI cover story on the Mississippi Welfare Queen -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:04 1
- I hate him so much. What a trashbag of a human being -- nm - Remlik May 18, 11:23
KeePass has a vulnerability that lets the master password be pulled out of system memory -- (link) - Beryllium May 18, 09:02 [mastodon] 1
- A feature. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 09:03
The remnants of this burn finally surfaced today as a light blister that cleanly peeled away. -- (link) - Beryllium May 18, 08:41 [Backboard]
Poll: List your dream cast for a Clue remake (living actors) - Max May 18, 08:40 18
- I can't. It shouldn't be remade. There's no way it can live up to the OG. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 09:41
- Channing Tatum or Matt Damon for Mr. Body - they live for those type of roles -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 18, 09:40
- Tony Shaloub as Colonel Mustard. -- nm - TWuG May 18, 09:23
- Kate Winslet, dum dum -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:21
- oh, and needs more Rebecca Ferguson -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 08:51 2
  - everything needs more Rebecca Ferguson -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 18, 08:53 1
    - And Hannah Waddingham too -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 08:55
- Bill Nighy as Wadsworth could be brilliant, or fail miserably -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:48 1
  - I was thinking Richard Ayoade for that or Professor Plum -- nm - LMS May 18, 09:11
- ... I'd also like to reboot Murder by Death. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 08:47 1
  - As an aside, PSH did such a good Capote that I'd have sworn PSH was Lionel Twain. - Beryllium May 18, 08:50
- Emily Blunt as Miss Scarlet, Ana de Armas as Yvette, Bill Hader or Will Forte as Colonel Mustard, Sharon Stone as Mrs Peacock. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 08:47 2
  - These are brillant. I vote these. We do need some diversity though -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 18, 09:29 1
    - Tarji P Henson in this cast. -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 18, 09:31
- Singing Telegram - Kylie -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:44 1
  - Kylie who? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 08:49
- I think we have to consider Daniel Craig as a comic talent. I'd add him to the list after the stuff Benoit said about Clue. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 08:43 1
  - Wadsworth - Kenneth Branagh, Professor Plum - Hugh Grant -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 08:46
"confido nihil" sounds like a good Latin motto. "Non possum credere quod" not so much. Right? :) -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 08:39
Broadway’s “New York, New York” will start a national tour in 2025. -- nm - MDH May 18, 08:31 1
- It would be cool if the name changed for each tour city, like "Dover, Dover" -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 08:39
I'm gonna say something bad about Apple. But then - hold on to your seats! - I'm gonna say something *good* about Apple! - prayformojo 🐵 May 18, 08:18 3
- I will accept the first part. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:25 1
  - I know, right? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 18, 08:47
- We recommend you make sure things go wrong on Tuesdays latest to ensure minimum downtime. -- nm - Apple May 18, 08:20
My IDGAF attitude is apparently expanding. Defender alert for someone running "PDFSharkApp.exe" which apparently has some questionable tendencies - oblique May 18, 07:59 1
- PDF Shark doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo. -- nm - JD May 18, 08:01
Wow. Mount St Helens eruption was 43 years ago today. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 07:36 7
- oy! b. trivia: my mom and a brother and I took a road trip to see it. brother measured our progress by how many of my teddy bear’s paws away we were. - i.b! May 18, 10:57
- I'm really glad I got to go see it when we took the PNW trip. Even seeing it in person it's still hard to comprehend the magnitude of it. -- nm - sycor May 18, 08:02 2
  - I went to a little museum near there, silver lake. About 30 miles away from the mountain. Didn't have time to get closer. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 08:37
  - “Those hills over there used to be the top of the mountain up *there*.” -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 18, 08:31
- Ugh. Between this and the realization that Disney's 30-year-old cute fireman doesn't fall within my +7 rule, I feel old. -- nm - Dano May 18, 07:50 2
  - Oh sure he does. Aren't you younger than me? *does the math* damn - sycor May 18, 07:57
  - Life's too short to live by colloquial rules - Beryllium May 18, 07:57
CNN just reported that Harry and Megan are STILL in the car being chased! -- nm - Spawn May 18, 07:32 3
- and you won't believe the two characters that are driving the car chasing them -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 18, 07:58 1
  - foo... fighters? -- nm - rollo May 18, 08:39
- "and here's why that is bad news for Joe Biden." -- nm - NY Times pitchbot May 18, 07:37
Late to the game, I know, but we finished Night Agent last evening. It has some disbelief flaws, but overall I really enjoyed it. -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 07:05 7
- I need to go back to that, I guess. Made it to spoil - Spawn May 18, 08:26 1
  - I encourage people to watch it and enjoy it in the name of diverse opinions. I personally thought it quite bad. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 08:37
- I'm late(r) to the game, as I haven't watched it. I'm watching Halo now (also late), and boy it's slow. - JaxSean May 18, 07:23 2
  - Yeah I didn't make it through Halo. -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 07:34
  - As a non Halo lore nerd I thought it was decent but yes, quite slow -- nm - oblique May 18, 07:30
- same, will watch s2 for sure. one of my biggest issues was - spoilers -- (edited) - Beaker May 18, 07:10 1
  - My biggest problem, after the fact, was that...spoilers - Volnelk May 18, 07:14
Who wants to hear about the funny but slightly embarassing comedy of errors last night that led to the fire department showing up at the Disney home? - Walt_Disney May 18, 07:00 13
- were they hawt? LOL -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 18, 07:13 5
  - lolol Pip -- nm - Jovian May 18, 07:24 2
    - what?! it's a valid question! - Pippy Quintas May 18, 08:22 1
      - lol yes, Im just lol'ing on how consistent you are. :) -- nm - Jovian May 18, 08:33
  - One of the guys looked to be around 30 and was cute :P -- nm - Walt_Disney May 18, 07:14 1
    - :P -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 18, 08:21
- We have had the security system for almost two months and it had never gone off before. Not sure why it did this time :( -- nm - Walt_Disney May 18, 07:10 1
  - Steamy shower sex will do that :) -- nm - oblique May 18, 07:30
- So the phone rang and... you didn't pick it up? - Mop May 18, 07:07 3
  - Who answers the phone anymore? -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 07:20 1
    - I keep forgetting that my phone has a phone app. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 18, 07:55
  - I know....and they called twice on my cell phone and I did not notice. I was washing dishes at the time. :( -- nm - Walt_Disney May 18, 07:13
- So, only cold showers in the Disney household from now on? -- nm - decline May 18, 07:02
Why Is an M.V.P. Outfielder Playing Shortstop? Because He Can. - crash davis 😺 May 18, 06:53
Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ trailer -- (link) - budice May 18, 06:40 14
- absolute banger coming -- nm - hollywood big shot May 18, 09:01
- The people in Cannes who just saw the trailer on their iPhones are still standing. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 18, 07:55
- between this and yesterday's MI trailer, I think Cruise has been stealing Dicaprio's life essence -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 07:02 1
  - Yes, I can see that too -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 18, 07:13
- I feel like I've been hearing about this movie in passing for like 10 years. Was someone else attached to it? -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 06:51 8
  - The orignal plan was for it to star Malcolm Gladwell and foodchem -- nm - Dano May 18, 06:58 1
    - 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 07:00
  - well, the book came out in mid-2017 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 18, 06:56 1
    - Scorsese is so good, he was developing the movie before the book was written -- nm - decline May 18, 06:58
  - 2 of the most famous living actors and 1 of the 2 most famous directors of all-time not enough for you? :) -- nm - Beaker May 18, 06:53 3
    - I just meant from a longevity standpoint. Like was it Speilberg and then became Scorsese or has it just been in Scorsese's pipeline for a long time? -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 06:56 1
      - The HSX IPO date was Sep 30, 2017. -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 06:57
    - Jesse Plemons isn't *that* famous -- nm - decline May 18, 06:55
- youtube link -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 06:50 [youtube]

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