Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”
A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”
I just don’t believe any human would put out a statement with an email dash in 2026. It’s the thing
I use 'em.
My hyperbolic analogy is a swastika. Sure, the swastika had been in use for 10,000 years before Germany existed…but a company probably isn’t putting one on their letter head in 2026.
It’s as iconic for AI slop as It’s Not X, It’s Y
to an untrained eye who hasn’t read anything but internet posts, sure, but people use them in other places and that still carries on into internet prose sometimes.
You will have to pry the em—dash from my cold, dead fingers. AI may take my job, but I will damned if it takes the em—dash from me.
i started using them because of ai. lol
Fighting fire with fire — i like it!
Where do you think it learned it from lol
you’re absolutely right.
lol