Sorry to Bother You is a 2018 American science fiction black comedy film written and directed by musician Boots Riley in his directorial debut. It stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, and Armie Hammer. The film follows a young African-American telemarketer who adopts a "white voice" to succeed at his job, after which he is swept into a corporate conspiracy and must choose between chasing profit or joining his activist friends who are attempting to unionize.
areyoumad — who ghosted your courtesy-like today
Finds today's replies, checks who didn't like you back, gives you a button to ask if they're mad.
My Dad’s Annoying. I’m Annoying. What About My Daughter?
I’ve inherited my dad’s habit of saying and doing inappropriate things. Now I’m making sure my kid won’t follow suit.
What's the middle ground between 'F.U!' and 'Welcome!'?
One of my wife's distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again. She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as...
Well-intentioned obscenity
An LLM lied about me at the office and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in human-to-human interactions in the future.
No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images
Letting the unreliable Grok be its own "spokesperson" lets xAI off the hook.
'It's Hurting Like Hell': AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
Replika, the "AI companion who cares," has undergone some abrupt changes to its erotic roleplay features, leaving many users confused and heartbroken.
Steve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality
Text Editing Hates You Too
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You, published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.
If caring solved i18n, it would already be solved. Part two of a cognitive linguist's response to #ATmosphereConf — this time to @vicwalker.dev.br . Three cases, three misdiagnoses. plurality.leaflet.pub/3mit3ebov6s25
The Clinic: Three Cases from the Other Side of i18n - Nightflight
plurality.leaflet.pubABC Australia has a YouTube series called “You Can’t Ask That” in which they bring in people from various marginalized/stereotyped groups who have volunteered to answer “inappropriate” questions. I’m sure they aren’t fully representative but they do foster empathy & I think they’re generally great.
Muslim women on hijabs, gender inequality, abuse and faith | You Can't Ask That | Full Episode
youtu.behumble opinon: it's hard to be taken seriously when you tell everyone about respecting users' agency and then force a change of *their content presentation* with no controls in other words: why do y'all have so much care at the protocol level and seems to have so little on everything user facing?!
Ooof, this is really bad and their lackadaisical response is even worse
Robin Berjon
It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/116767220594438841
Ooof, this is really bad and their lackadaisical response is even worse
Robin Berjon
It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/116767220594438841
