I’m enjoying The Princess Bride. It’s charmingly meta

You didn’t link any kind of article, so people are down-voting this because it’s a picture, four words, and zero context.

The cynic in me would say that a word like “magical” in relation to eating a meal is metaphor; and no one will bat an eye at using it that way.

But the whole “self improvement” space is so full of grifts, cons, and empty promises that applying that same system of metaphors does a disservice. If you’re using it the same way as you would a delicious meal, saying that a mantra is “magical” can prove true for one person while another finds it a waste of time. But if you’re using it the way that a self-help grifter would, where the Mantra is implied to contain implicit properties in and of itself that are Magic, that’s where trouble starts.

I’ll betcha the words weren’t actually Magical

Enshittification

For the 50th time: CEOs are Not a valid source for truth

I didn’t need to learn this today

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Oooof, this “research” is just so very reductive.

“Not even like a wave to a barista, not somebody also checking for ripeness of the avocados at the grocery store,” says Emanuel. “Just no human contact at all.”

Hot take: waving at a barista or witnessing a fellow shopper check avocados doesn’t count as “human contact”.

Remote workers aren’t making up for that lost social connection by socializing after work, she adds. “We even see a decrease in spending time with friends after the work day relative to people in non-remotable occupations.”

Shouting extra loud for the people in the back: We’re in the middle of an affordability crisis, you idiots, and there are way fewer Third Places around than ever before!!

Commuting solves nothing, and only exasperates a whole host of other issues.

If we’re serious about improving mental health, the last thing anyone should be recommending is Office Jobs

You may have valid justifications for your inclination in this regard

Probably. Perhaps he’s realized that nepotism is a successful methodology for getting ahead in life. But maybe he should have tried being born into a more wealthy family, instead of blaming others.

Hopefully they’ll continue utilising Outrage as the Prime Engagement Metric, so that when I start swearing loudly at annoying scammy ads, they’ll assume that means I’m “engaged”, and that’s good, so they’ll serve me more and more ragebait

Anon sounds entitled AF. Has he tried not relying on nepotism for getting ahead?

I am experiencing feelings of various varieties

IT HAS EYES AND A MOUTH lol

Yuuuuuup. The fact that she platformed “John of God” should be the biggest, brightest red flag of all time.

Pretty sure kidneys don’t have eyes or a mouth. Pretty sure they don’t stick up from the mass of flesh like some eldrich tumor. Pretty sure if this image becomes a meme, I’ll hate it forever.

I’d love to hear more about Why, because the panhandle is quite picturesque

You’re not missing anything. Execs have bought into AI hype and consider it a given that AI will be transformative, so they’re not bothering to think about use cases or real world applications. After all, the “user” is beneath them; so the user should just be happy and grateful for the opportunity.

I did it because business is changing, and to win the future, Cloudflare needs to change with it.

It’s a shame that they’ll never actually “win the future” considering they will never make enough profit to be satisfied. “Winning” isn’t something that can be achieved if enough profit is never enough and more is always required.