A “young girl” would be a “child,” And multiple young girls would be children. 🤨

I’m not really surprised. Nintendo tends to run on its own schedule. They also might be hoping the yen strengthens so it won’t cost them as much to produce new consoles. Knowing Nintendo, they’ll want to have enough in stock to not have supply problems like Sony did with the PS5.

An autocorrect typo.

IIRC, though, that wasn’t Sony’s decision - WB yanked the licenses because they wanted those shows to only be on their streaming platform.

So it’s just irony that Sony is doing the same thing now.

You know what say: if buying isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing.

The irony of using ChatGPT for this of all articles.

Well, that’s certainly a reaction.

R F Kuang is American and Xiran Jay Zhao is Canadian. They write in English.

I think they just forgot to capitalize the A. Whoops.

Nah, the weird terminally online hard right-wingers, the netouyo, are big mad about it. And they can stay mad.

That requires someone in business to think beyond the next quarter’s profits.

I’ve posted things on sexism in STEM before, so I can say: no, it is not. I almost didn’t post this precisely because of how bad the comments were to those posts. Hope foolishly sprung eternal.

Facebook is probably as close as we’ll get to a western “everything app.” They kind of missed the window, though, which is another thing Elon doesn’t seem to realize - the big eastern “everything apps” were there as people were starting to switch to doing things on their phones, so the ecosystems grew around them as things were developing (especially WeChat). Elon’s coming in trying to turn Twitter into an everything app nearly ten years too late.

The big difference between Twitter and all those other apps, as someone who has used both KakaoTalk and Line, is that they didn’t start out as social media posting apps - they were just chat messaging apps for talking to your friends, not the world. Then they added payment for things like buying stamps or sending friends money. From there, once they had established payment methods and users that trusted them, they started slowly adding services people thought were useful. The ecosystems built up organically over time. No one planned for them to be everything apps or tried to force it on the apps and users. They became those because they adapted to how people were using the internet on their phones.

Al Jazeera is streaming it live on their site and YouTube.

Thing is, it probably won’t. MySpace is still around. LiveJournal is still around. Big social media platforms don’t tend to stop existing. But they do stop being culturally and socially relevant, and that’s what I hope comes sooner rather than later to Twitter: irrelevancy.

MARTA is so inconvenient. I’m lucky; my family only lives twenty minutes from the airport so I just have to call them when I get in. And even though they’re so close, there’s no public transportation option to even get close to where my family is.

And God help you if you want to take the bus; those MARTA buses come when the mood hits them.

Ok, MARTA really is kind of shit.

I got to about two and a half minutes before I shut it off.

I still can’t get over that. A distributor made a mistake but WotC treated him like a thief.