• I added an agora current events board to contain discussions of political and current events to that category. This was due to a increase support for a separate board for political talk.

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  1. Punp

    Pinterest forced to show their hand in using AI to show "diverse body types" to customers

    From the new terms of service updated to disclose use of AI: Bold emphasis my own. Reminder that if you get a ToS email from a service you haven't used in a while, it is your obligation to delete that account and erase its contents.
  2. manpaint

    I have a peticular problem

    So I have a very unique problem. I have way too much free time. Although I recently managed to get employed, I am now "on call" due to general lack of work. I now have entire days were I have nothing to do. I think most people agree that boredom in general is a good thing, but I think I simply...
  3. turntableToothache

    Come up with the shittiest most unoriginal idea for a current-year Hollywood movie

    Hollywood used to be the place where creativity and original ideas flourished to create wonderful works of art back in the day. Nowadays they make such classics as The Emoji Movie, The Borderlands movie, there's the upcoming Minecraft movie, and they're already working on a Skibidi Toilet movie...
  4. Jade

    Nihon University Professor caught falsifying academic work

    Thomas Lockley, a professor at Nihon University, has been caught colluding with Nihon University staff to promote a number of unsourced books he wrote containing falsified stories of various historical figures. Lockley edited wikipedia and Encyclopedia Brittanica articles for nearly a decade...
  5. Vitnira

    Europeans in America in 6000 BC - Historical Revisionism

    A few months ago I visited a museum that contained an exhibit about the Windover Archeological site findings. There was such dramatic historical revisionism I felt compelled to write this. If I create a website, this will be my first post. I finally feel like I have something truly meaningful to...
  6. Punp

    Tales from Gamedev: How marketers aim to be "just one of you"

    I've been in the back of a few board rooms - both real and virtual - and I've learned that advertising is exploitative and sociopathic (duh). Here are some examples, mostly from gamedev. The average phone/browser has a unique ad id which tracks users between sites (like insta/youtube) and...
  7. Emmy Fitz

    Corporate Memphis - Aesthetic Highlight #20

    In "celebration" of reaching the 20th installment of my Aesthetic Highlight series, let's take an introspective look at the 2020's most defining one thus far. The infamous: Corporate Memphis (Late 2010s-present day) Corporate Memphis is an aesthetic birthed by big tech companies during the...
  8. WKYK

    Bullshit Jobs

    Bullshit Jobs are jobs that are meaningless or contribute very little to society. I learned about the idea of bullshit jobs from a post somewhere on the road a while ago, but essentially the idea comes from a book by David Graeber of the same name. On Wikipedia it summarizes the categories of BS...
  9. elia925-6

    Corporate Memphis - Noodlearm Digital Diversity

    I opened this thread because i want to share my reflection on web design today, The reason, for corporate memphis. Created by the design agent BUCK for the facebook redesign in 2017, Corporate Memphis has the ability to adopt in different shapes of screens without ruining the quality by resizing...
  10. llillilll

    Corporations are the reason why we have a alt-right alt-left war.

    I would like you to check first 3 pics i attached. This is Google's way of saying they hate white men secretly, you probably never saw this before but most nazis/racist whites saw it. If one of them said google hates white men they would be right from just this image except the ceos and most...