Jon Reed

This is gross and an abomination who would eat these?*

*I would. I would eat these. I *will* eat these.

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree 23 people are affected

Breaking: Ziff Davis is doing layoffs today, affecting 15% of the union. The majority of the workers being laid off are at CNET, along with several across ZDNET, Mashable, and Lifehacker.

Ziff Davis has been on a buying spree this year, acquiring 5 other companies.

www.theverge.com/news/715220/...

Today, the multibillion-dollar Ziff Davis is slashing its staff of 23 valuable ZDCG colleagues — just weeks after it finalized even more corporate acquisitions and boasted about profitability being "up." Ziff Davis is putting its spending spree ahead of its own workers. 👇

Ford exec: How are you going to get these robots to pay union dues?
Walter Reuther: How are you going to get them to buy Fords?

Legalized Sports Betting Is Class War Against You The new age of app-based gambling will do for personal finance what Facebook did for public discourse.

I think about this all the time inthesetimes.com/article/lega...

These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires From Space A new satellite program backed by Google and global nonprofits is looking to mitigate destructive fire seasons.

FireSat is a very cool satellite program for identifying wildfires when they're still small. They released the first images last week, which I wrote about at CNET: www.cnet.com/science/thes...

Even the Obit Writers Are Jumping Ship at The Washington Post RIP for DC’s chroniclers of the dead.

This is a lovely piece about, among other things, why obituaries matter.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Journalism Needs Government Funding to Survive The recent cuts to public media are part of a broader attack on public welfare.

"As my own generation of perpetually laid-off colleagues has learned the hard way, any good gig or thriving publication is always one lawsuit or lost investor or algorithmic tweak or reactionary election away from doom." www.cjr.org/analysis/jou...

Only a surprise if you haven't been to West Virginia.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

A tool lets you pick which public radio stations most need donations: adoptastation.org

kiss cams are the surveillance state btw

In my mind Gangnam Style will hold this throne forever.

"I know what you are."
"Say it. Out loud."
"... Fancy autocomplete."

The difference between a hot dog and AI is that one is basically artificial, unhealthy if overdone (and often harmful in even small doses), mass-produced in socially harmful ways and available basically everywhere, and the other is $1.50 at Costco.

A week ago I visited the BP Station Where Rutherford B. Hayes Was Born.

Ten writers of whom I have read five-plus books:



Phil Dick

Annie Dillard

John McPhee

Hanif Abdurraqib

Wendell Berry
Raymond Chandler
Mike Davis
John Le Carre
Ross Macdonald
Anne Lamott

Gerard, a black and white tuxedo cat, laying on a carpeted floor with his tongue out, touching his nose.

made it 90 minutes into the week before the doom set in

All I remember about that movie is:
“This is T-Rex… pee?… How’d you get it?”
“You don’t want to know.”

And that is worth far better than last place.

don't tell Cleveland I said this but they should put it in Columbus instead

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nt0j...

Yeah if it weren’t for intense interest from the cats I wouldn’t care. They’re horrifying looking but won’t attack first.

A couple weeks ago I realized my window was cracked open and I killed a paper wasp and a mud dauber during the course of one half-hour meeting. Couldn’t let the cats fight them.

The best airport in the country is LaGuardia. The worst airport in the country is LaGuardia.

Inside of you are two wolves. Each of them finds two wolves that work under them, who then in turn find two wolves each for themselves and so on. The profits increase as more wolves come on board. One of the Wolves made $100,000 last year working from home.

Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

You don’t ask questions to sound smart. You ask questions to get the best answers for your readers.

i have never understood the desire to back up your posts, here or on twitter. be like the rocks along the waterbank, not a stone abandoned to the desert

was mildly annoyed when google docs worked just now