I'm pretty tired of hearing about

[Brad]

>They had pics of her all over XTwitter for a couple of weeks.  I had never heard of her before.  Fortunately that has died down.

[ergophobe]

I had to Google her and when I saw the photos, realized I had Googled her once before because she was in the news.

I still don't know why she is famous, but she clearly has reached the level of celebrity where she has broken through all the filters of the cranky old folks on The Core, which is saying something.

That said, based on all her award nominations, she isn't Paris Hilton 2.0 (i.e. a person who is famous for being famous).

[rcjordan]

>all the filters of the cranky old folks

5-6 years ago, IIRC, she was mostly tit pix on /r/all --so not filtered. I'd see her name occasionally over the years, but not enough to bother putting her in the array.  But this year, I had to add her name.  She still leaks by on bsky memes.

[ergophobe]

Substack

[Brad]

Gavin Newsom

[rcjordan]

Silksong

[Brad]

Vibe

[ergophobe]

I'm always amused at how many of the things in this thread that I have to google to find out what they are (e.g. the last two).

[Brad]

I'd been reading hipsters talking about vibe coding and vibe this and vibe that for weeks.  But when the Floridaman health official dork who made all childhood vaccinations optional, confessed that he didn't look at any cost or risk assessments before issuing his order it was just a vibe decision based on no science whatsoever, I lost it.

[ergophobe]

Ah, I didn't know if you meant "vibes" or Vibe (a magazine) or something else.

Vibe coding is such a dumb name because that is now also just called software development. See my post from a few minutes ago - https://th3core.com/chat/index.php?topic=14191.msg88829;topicseen#new

Also, I strongly recommend the Australian movie The Castle. $3.79 to stream on YouTube or Amazon (pick your poison) and well worth the price of admission. It has a scene of "vibe lawyering" that I think you will really enjoy in your current mood.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.32a9f772-d48c-6826-dae1-e35a1bfb3302?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb

One of the all-time favorite comedies in my extended family.

[Brad]

influencers

We have all kinds of influencers: political, travel, product, fashion, medical, nearly naked, Botoxed, music, conspiracy, food.

A pox on the whole lot.  And a pox upon headlines that refer to inluencers.