Joseph L. Selby

Joseph L. Selby

@josephlselby.com

Ed tech professional, writer, gamer, nerd. I like your cat more than I like you. [he/him | they/them]

129 followers59 following1.6K posts

Watching the latest season of The Diplomat, and I really want a spin-off episode with the British PM and Home Secretary. They're awesome!

Mass Effect rates only after Zelda in my pantheon of games, but Bioware fell hard from grace. This video gives me the old chills and thrills that I remember so fondly. They would have gotten $70 out of me for this one.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Watching the trailer for They Will Kill You. The premise is the hotel is a temple to Satan that requires a sacrifice every month. Once Zazie Beetz kills the first person, isn't that sufficient for the sacrifice? Why do they keep hunting her? Does Satan care that much who dies?

Having seen Spider-Man Brand New Day in both 3D and now 2D, it makes me sad that the 3D format failed. The movie is significantly superior in 3D.

I liked the first two Enola Holmes movies, but lip fillers freak me out, and I can't watch the third. I'm listening, but every time I look at the screen, my skin crawls.

Joseph L. Selby reposted

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

A friend sent me a job opportunity but said they would never hire me if I kept posting about feelings, behaviors, and unethical business practices on LinkedIn. Some I've deleted every post that makes me look like a human, and now I have no interest posting there again.

I like the For You feed, but it doesn't include people I follow, which is annoying. Anyone know a way to merge the two so I don't have to flip back and forth?

Joseph L. Selby reposted

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

Two more years of John Fetterman before Pennsylvania can elect someone without a traumatic brain injury. There needs to be a way for citizens to recall their elected officials. Being stuck with a stroke victim for 6 years is ridiculous.

Joseph L. Selby reposted

it's wild how republicans will be like "governing is bad, also elect me to govern you" and people do and they put their promise into practice and don't govern, run everything off a cliff, bankrupt everyone, light the world on fire, and after a while people forget about that and let them do it again

I'm starting to wonder if the AI interview I took was a scam. There were some yellow flags, but the CEO's profile seemed legit. He is even connected to some of my connections. But now I'm wondering if the interview was used to train the model instead of looking for an actual applicant.

We really need JD Vance to become president before January. I don't want that fucker eligible for two terms as president. (Not that I think he could win two terms, but it's getting harder to trust our elections, so who wants to risk it?)

I'm a huge Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fan, but this week's episode is the fourth gimmick episode in a row, and it's getting harder to defend the show against its haters. It really feels like they're leaning in to the Strange more than the New Worlds aspect of the title.

Joseph L. Selby reposted

As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires

New York Daily News @nydailynews.com

Supreme Court chief justice allows work on Trump’s $400M White House ballroom to continue for now

Joseph L. Selby reposted

Vaccines do not cause autism. Autism is not something to be fixed. Autism is not something to be cured. My autistic friends, you are autistic joy. Thank you for being wonderful you ✨ Sincerely, Your Autistic Library Friend 💛

I saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day yesterday. Now that I know Marvel is capable of this kind of storytelling, I am even less interested in Avengers: Doomsday. Brand New Day is like Wayne Gretzky. If you made it worse, it would still be the best MCU film. It's that far ahead of the rest.

While I try to walk the difficult tightrope that is AI use, I found myself firmly in a "Don't do that" camp today, as a young man was complaining about how people didn't like his AI story. He felt he had done "most of the work" by creating a complex prompt.

Are you making something for your own enjoyment? Then other people's judgment doesn't matter. But you generated a story, turned it in as an assignment, and showed it to your peers. That's entirely different. You took a shortcut, and not a very good one.

I lost out on a senior product manager role to someone who was a chief product officer in their last position. They went from CPO to SPM. How the hell am I ever going to find work?

Someone made the best observation following the Doomsday trailer: The MCU has officially reached comic book parity. You have a forced crossover with all your popular titles even if it doesn't make sense for the stories they were telling because everyone will buy it anyway.