Bless Her Heart

  1. “Why hire a Harvard MBA when you can have a robot do the work in their place and do it better, round-the-clock and without the need to cut holiday bonus checks?”

  2. Interesting: “Women deny (or are unaware) of their gossip propagation because they deliver their negative gossip out of concern for targets. Specifically, women who neither espouse nor express malicious motivations when gossiping can effectively transmit reputation-harming information while preserving their own reputations.”

  3. On weird fiction as recursive infection: “[Nathan Fielder’s] The Rehearsal inspired a subreddit in which viewers of the show rehearsed their own real-life encounters. This subreddit inspired a separate subreddit called r/therehearsal1stdraft, in which users rehearsed the process of posting things on the larger rehearsal subreddit.”

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