It’s really funny.

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An understated Australian comedy - for balance I added an exclamation point.

The Good Place.

I ended up binge watching Beef because of Melanie MacFarland’s review on Salon. But I didn’t like the ending.

Edit: Unbreakable Kimmy and Dear White People.

Of Beef. Excited to have a new one to binge watch!!!

DWP was awesome. Lionel and Reggie were my favorite characters. And Titus was the breakout star of Kimmy.

I found Kimmy extra funny because Si Valley is kind of a cult and it contaminates everything it touches.

Putting Dear White People in my queue.

Not what I'd call a comedy.

Did you like it? It has comedic parts later on.

It is a really good show. A little clever humor can make difficult political topics digestible to a larger audience perhaps.

Didn't really grab me, so I probably won't finish it. But I'm always checking out new things.

I started "Rooster" but I'm bailing on that one as well. I have an aversion to academia-themed shows, movies, and books. But I thought I'd give it a try.

Oh well, "Comedy's a funny thing," as they say.

Normally I would not have an aversion to academia themed art. But in the environment of the last 15-16 years with a slow, stalkerish creep into real human life, constantly justified as inevitable, anything that may be a product of theft, no way.
I am hoping for a sea change resulting in serious regulatory pushes.

And it rarely covers any new ground. Just how many more books do we need written about (and by) a professor who cheats on his wife with a young student?

That would be lame..I don’t know which schools they draw that from.

Well there was one case in an EECS dept I remember (a 30 something prof and an undergraduate..he went on to be affiliated with Google so unsurprising).

But the creepiness of infidelity aside, student prof relationships are totally verboten. That’s as bad as a rel with your doctor or any unequal power dynamics situations.


I feel kind of lucky. Even my most annoying mentor thankfully was only kinda sus because he liked TED tech talks. It sounds like a joke, but I do think the world we live in today is a result of Si Valley culture spreading:
https://www.thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/

I have saved a set of news items that got me through a very rough time with pieces like these which bolstered my suspicion that the tech bros are the last people who should reorganise society.
This is another one:
https://theconversation.com/how-neoliberalism-is-damaging-your-mental-health-90565

I post these links repetitiously because imo they are a rare set of articles that in simple language, succinctly convey a lot of concerns I have had about many ill-conceived structural changes I have seen.