EMOTIONAL moment when Chrisean Rock tried to ask Chrisean Jr. for a kiss during his 3 years old birthday, but it seems like he wasn’t even aware that it was his birthday.

let me seriously contribute to the hot tech girl discourse, as a middle aged woman in tech: appearance and presentation is one of the small disproportionate points of leverage young women have in an industry that’s extremely hostile to them otherwise. and even then: it’s not always a good trade. I’ve told this story many times, but the reason I didn’t get my CS degree many, many moons ago (including a scholarship to CMU!) is I walked into room after room where no one looked like me. Not only were there no women, but there wasn’t anyone who seemingly cared at all about style or charm. The room might as well said: no hot girls allowed. 20 years in tech and startups and hot girl commentary has been inescapable. Watching men wonder out loud if the female SWE interviewing is hot. The uniform hotness of enterprise sales reps. The Botox, boob jobs, eyelash extensions, and impressively toned arms on 50+ yo female executives. The cutie pie devx yt streamers. The “new to SF” posters. But before you envy the hot girl (or complain about her rising leverage) also trust this: looks are — on the whole — a miserable downside to being a woman in tech. She will be told she’s only in the room because she’s hot. She will be dismissed as vapid, or preying on men, or needy for attention. She’ll be asked to go on stage or in a booth or on a video in a way that doesn’t make her feel great. She’ll look good for her age and people will presume she’s inexperienced. She will have not-hot days and be told she looks tired. She will be newly pregnant or postpartum and be called fat. She will grow old and wonder if the Botox and boob job and eyelash extensions will give her another decade in the career that she loves. She will tune her “touch up my appearance” settings like her job depends on it. She will wonder when she needs to disappear. So be kind—to these women, and yourself. These girls are hot, but they’re also smart, hard working, and hyper aware this tool probably has a shelf life. It’s probably not as fun as it seems. They have feelings, too (even if they’re tough as nails and don’t show it.) And to the sisterhood of hot tech girls: I salute you! 💅

Dr Arday’s death was the direct result of media harassment – we’re demanding a public inquiry to prevent this from ever happening again: goodlaw.social/ybdn

“The profession is already full of frauds” really isn’t the defense people seem to think it is.

The sex cult in Eyes Wide shut was beautifully done cinematography, etc and the music kicked ass. But it was dumb as shit. It was an idiotic plot conceit that ruined a half decent movie about a messy relationship with a conspiracy theory so stupid it appeals to the median voter

any time this game is mentioned by mainstream gaming media it is always undercut by sexism. it's so weird. men are allowed to have games where they are the center of (any variety of) womens' attention but when women get one it's weird and we have a "meltdown" over a cancellation