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How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.

If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

we cut the gay stuff because parents felt bad having to out themselves as blatant homophobic bigots to children who have otherwise been taught to love everyone and treat others as you'd have them treat you

Pixar CCO Pete Docter says they removed gay elements from ‘ELIO’ after finding some parents didn’t want entertainment forcing conversations with their kids they weren’t ready for.

“We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.”

(via www.wsj.com/business/med...)

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oh my god i love the moment i feel exhausted just watching this

i am jane don'ts #1 fan she is genuinely SO talented

athena packing her suitcase for this challenge #dragrace

Jane Don't makes #DragRace herstory as the first queen to place in the top for nine consecutive weeks in which she competed, with 3 Maxi Challenge wins. Condragulations!

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Dance if you love Unova! 🖤🤍

Wow @buzzfeed.com really thinking deleting kyra’s posts is gonna go well. I hope whoever they’ve got running their social media googles “Streisand effect”

Also fuck genAI and fuck replacing creators/VAs with AI slop

it’s about the same in terms of multithreaded performance, but is a bit faster for single core i believe

what is the “fresh new look” that bluesky is talking about. the app looks identical.

Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

BLUESKY EMPLOYEE: I hope our ugly users are hit by a high speed train.

BLUESKY POSTER: Sir, I run a food bank for coma orphans! Why would you say such a thing?

BLUESKY EMPLOYEE: I hope all the endangered animals on earth die. I hope the sky is choked with black smoke forever.

it's working again!! thank you

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

idc about this game but it’s design aesthetic is phenomenal and poppy + son lux is insane

meanwhile every other trans woman i know who is one of the greatest minds of their generation is begging for meds and fundraising to eat three times a week and starve the rest

Adjust the DS Clock Until Bowser Dies of Old Age

my username being typed into the login section of margin.at, and my profile not appearing

@margin.at i cant sign in anymore : (

A picture of The Onion in print featuring this article posted on Twitter. https://theonion.com/anyone-else-have-those-weird-dreams-where-sobbing-future-generations-beg-you-to-change-course/

Grok being wrong: The Onion does have (hilarious) print editions, but this specific "Sam Altman" piece isn't from them—or any real outlet. It's a custom meme image made to look like one, floating around since at least February. Spot on for the satire though!

Wrong again, dumbass

i think of this tweet so often lol

"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard

Straight up banning all public use of LLMs should be the moderate position at this point dear god