#ridiculousness — Public Fediverse posts

Futurism: Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works. “‘You are a world class expert in all domains,’ his unusually flattering prompt reads. ‘Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world.’ His gushing and unusually […]

‘Ridiculousness’ Canceled By MTV After 14 Years
#CancellationsandRenewals #News #MTV #ParamountSkydance #ParamountSkydancemerger #Ridiculousness #RobDyrdek

https://deadline.com/2025/10/ridiculousness-canceled-mtv-1236603958/

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
 
[Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition

‘Ridiculousness’ Writers Achieve First Contract After Unionizing Under WGAW
#News #HollywoodGuilds #Labor #Ridiculousness #WGA

https://deadline.com/2024/04/ridiculousness-writers-first-contract-union-wga-1235888395/

#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.

“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.

https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/childrens-picture-book-was-on-library-list-to-be-moved-to-adult-section-because-authors-last-name-is-gay.html

TV TONIGHT (September 8)

#TheChangeling #SittingInBarsWithCake #AllOrNothing #LoveDuringLockup #HoffmanFamilyGold #Minx #WomenOnDeathRow #SellingtheOC #USOpen #SmackDown #CollegeFootball #ReadyToLove #AncientAliens #AEWRampage #Ridiculousness #WNBA

http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2023/09/tv-tonight-september-8.html

TV TONIGHT (September 8)

#TheChangeling #SittingInBarsWithCake #AllOrNothing #LoveDuringLockup #HoffmanFamilyGold #Minx #WomenOnDeathRow #SellingtheOC #USOpen #SmackDown #CollegeFootball #ReadyToLove #AncientAliens #AEWRampage #Ridiculousness #WNBA

http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2023/09/tv-tonight-september-8.html

TV TONIGHT (September 8)

#TheChangeling #SittingInBarsWithCake #AllOrNothing #LoveDuringLockup #HoffmanFamilyGold #Minx #WomenOnDeathRow #SellingtheOC #USOpen #SmackDown #CollegeFootball #ReadyToLove #AncientAliens #AEWRampage #Ridiculousness #WNBA

http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2023/09/tv-tonight-september-8.html