Professional Idiot

Most things have a secret cuteness if you look deep enough

It is unclear how Jurassic Park crew got their hands on a Motorola Envoy. The movie was shot from August to November 1992. Motorola only finished the PDA in mid-1994 but delayed releasing it to February 1995[1]. EDIT : Hackernews user kalleboo solved the mystery! The head of frogdesign (Hartmut Esslinger) ended up running into Spielberg on a plane and showed it to him. The one in the movie is an original mockup (source and discussion).

It is imperative that the customer remain unaware that employees drink water, it frightens and scares them to think of an employee as having human needs

The original design outright sucks and I cannot believe the shift from saccharine disney furries to grungy taxidermy creatures is at all controversial.

Cooking your produce is a way to protect yourself from cyclospora fyi

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

Many people think the problem with cultural appropriation is inauthenticity (vague, nebulous) rather than marginalized people functionally getting robbed

The discourse afaik started with the very real and very insidious practice of white producers functionally dominating Black music for decades, paying Black artists peanuts or nothing & pushing for (better-paid, more mainstream-palatable) white artists playing in Black styles. In the sphere I'm most personally familiar with, it looks like most indigenous artforms that white people encounter in their lives being produced by and for settlers, and the profits largely being aggregated to settlers while traditional ndn artists struggle. I think using the terminology and losing sight of the economic damage - especially in favor of more nebulous frames like cultural authenticity - is doing real harm by dilution and contributing to the very thing it purports to fight