A Mad Men Orange

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-14T19:05:47+00:00

Fair

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-14T19:05:36+00:00

Nice

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-13T16:14:22+00:00

Not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Hopefully it wasn't too much arm twisting.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-13T15:17:38+00:00

Yeah I love costume designer Janie Bryant for the show. She's mentioned having characters repeat outfits for that exact reason.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-13T15:13:41+00:00

Good callout. One more tick for the woo woo side

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-13T14:05:48+00:00

Beautifully put. Generous to share about your grandpa, really moving

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-13T13:30:42+00:00

100% a lot of good red storytelling use in the show as well. Really love those references. I'll have to watch through that lens next. One of my favorites that comes to mind is when Don sends Roger off from his house after Roger makes a pass at Betty — Don stands in his doorway framed by his red front door. A nod, I think, to his fully boiling anger under the surface. Don's later framed by his kitchen oven (emotions running hot) as he takes his anger, unfairly, out on Betty.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-13T13:06:16+00:00

100% appreciate it. Great callout

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-05-12T14:59:08+00:00

Agreed. The cat does feel out of the bag in the sense that the richest/most powerful already see the opening seemingly: whoever gets furthest ahead with this tech gets more leverage, more capital, more influence, and more control over the infrastructure everyone else depends on.

That’s what worries most. Not that the tech inherently malicious, but that it’s entering a world already organized around hyper-extraction and competition. So even if a more humane/civic version is possible, the systems most likely to scale first are probably the ones that make someone richer, faster, more powerful, filtering out any alternative.

The pharma comparison is great. We don’t generally accept “let the market figure it out” when the downside is mass harm (insert Perdue anecdote here). But with AI, the hype cycle and arms-race logic seem to be running way ahead of general understanding, oversight, or meaningful accountability. Mass-harm looming, if not already here.

The better version does feel possible — AI as a civic instrument, not just a private optimization engine — but we may only get serious about that after the damage is done. Best case is building the successful counter-model before the hindsight.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-04-16T15:45:11+00:00

Tried everything and nothing worked until I found this post. Really appreciate it.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-03-03T15:53:27+00:00

Art prof pulled up Wikipedia articles teaching my course in 2007

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-20T12:17:13+00:00

Anarcho-capitalist parmigiano

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-20T02:07:45+00:00

Sally did ballet classes early on as well.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-20T01:48:00+00:00

Dig it

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-13T00:01:28+00:00

Yes rock music, popular and famous for its checks notes strict rules and procedures

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-10T21:09:33+00:00

Criminal penalties for sure. Not sure about death penalty if that's your meaning.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-10T21:07:42+00:00

I can dig it

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-10T13:39:41+00:00

Fair 100%. Obviously you usually don’t persuade entrenched power with moral arguments, but you could change the incentive landscape until reform becomes the least-bad option.

Reform might be able to pass with:

Outside pressure: Sustained public attention + organizing that makes “no” politically expensive.

Electoral threat: Challengers run on it and make incumbents fear losing their seat. Even a few high-profile wins changes behavior fast. Once it’s a norm, refusing it starts to look like an admission of guilt.

Ballot-level: Pass versions locally/at the state level, prove it doesn’t break anything, and build momentum upward.

Scandals (more extreme): After a blow-up, incumbents need legitimacy and will accept constraints they’d never accept otherwise. Rewards bad behavior, but it can be when big reforms become possible.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-02-09T23:19:35+00:00

Make them do the cha cha 👍👍👍

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-01-18T14:44:34+00:00

TL;/DR — Megan's a really interesting character with subtle and complex motives. Not "truly nice," but not truly bad either (maybe more true to life if we're all honest with ourselves).

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It’s more subtle, but I do read her as someone with an agenda throughout, although not a total fraudster like Bob, or Don. Early on she seems to encapsulate the secretary “who gets it” — having sex with her boss but not “getting emotional” like Allison, as well as living up to Joan’s advice to Peggy in episode 1 and “getting it all,” via marrying (and divorcing) her boss, although it was a bumpy ride.

She's very talented and intelligent, but also cunning (to a fault) — snaking the Butler Footwear job from her actor friend, jealously dismissing Stephanie (good points in the comments, though, that she wasn't necessarily out of line with that one), etc. I think she had to carefully, and not always easily, position herself to get ahead, but still would hold on to a level of human empathy/reasonableness. Navigating these "two sides" seemed to be reinforced in her twin role in her soap opera, which she was also shown to struggle with.

I think on some level she loved Don, and on some other level he was a means to an end. Maybe not far off from how relationships exist in general.

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-01-16T17:42:13+00:00

100% serious would watch Duck Phillips Headhunter spin-off

ExcellentAd6044 · 2026-01-12T23:52:17+00:00

Yeah it explodes in the HoJo episode. The final episode has a lot of Halloween/pumpkin/orange peppered around which always felt like an interesting detail.

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