DJ Uncle Fishbits

An interesting design direction when thinking of a product:

Much of tech think we want more apps, more control, more settings, more options.

Elegance is removing the need to make decisions or micromanage life. Life is complex enough.

Silicon Valley forgets this. Answering questions no one asked.

Fridge and laundry robot

I am at the Four Seasons Palo Alto for Dreame home line smart thing launch.

A new sparkling water fridge is coming out - Fizzfresh.

Vid is a demo to show how the inner workings operate of the in door sparkling. Smart ice options too.

Friday I'm going to the Bay area radio Hall of Fame for an induction ceremony of Alex Bennett morning radio show LIVE 105.3 KITS.

I don't think younger people would believe stories from the mid '90s.

Then Cobb's in SF is doing two shows Saturday for Sketch fest for our gang!

Big, fun weekend!

This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.

Two items in a row in my feed: Thune won't publicly back Noem, and George Will says its our patriotic duty to assume everything ICE says is a lie ...

To borrow @gelliottmorris.com's line, this really does feel like a tipping point.

Think about that. All the leads of emo bands in the mid '90s grew up watching Kurt come on the screen and scar you about a famous person who had dried of a drug overdose or suicide? He scarred them into emo and his hairstyle.

When Kurt Loder would break into a music video on MTV, you know some serious stuff was going down.

Do you think his hairstyle imprinted on so many people that he was the rise of the shoegazing emo haircut of the '90s?

My favorite moments of my professional career in design, development, hospitality, & operations & the moment you come together with other humans to collaborate and workshop the solution to some problem.

These processes are being systematically removed from the experience of being a professional.

If you're vulnerable with no ego, and you put yourself out there in good faith, really interesting, fun, nice things can happen to you.

It certainly reads like "the CBS re-org is that we're speaking to about 30-50 millionaire and billionaire people and want to assuage their fears and make them feel good about themselves".

It certainly reads like "the CBS re-org is that we're speaking to about 30-50 millionaire and billionaire people and want to assuage their fears and make them feel good about themselves".

Death spiral for sure. In 8 months there's gonna be one guy trying to figure out where an extension cord is.

death spiral for sure

You mean the AI Slop that ruined their site? Yeah, they should focus on that.

You mean the AI Slop that ruined their site? Yeah, they should focus on that.

You mean the AI Slop that ruined their site? Yeah, they should focus on that.

Respectfully, any historic context of other people losing or gaining approval in that time frame?

Finally. A comprehensive look at the “neo-Nazi .. ethnic cleansing” content coming out of “the offices of the White House .. using official government accounts ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Bari’s sole, career-defining trick is to repackage bog-standard elite opinion as something “edgy” and “heterodox.”

There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)

But it’s a NICHE audience.

But the whole elevator pitch and line was citizens needed to be allowed our own guns in case a... [checks notes]... lawless federal government terrorizing citizens came knocking at our doors.

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But the whole elevator pitch and line was citizens needed to be allowed our own guns in case a... [checks notes]... lawless federal government terrorizing citizens came knocking at our doors.

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If you're worried about the Epstein Files, please understand this is the largest instance of the Barbara Streisand effect in all of human history, and it's not going to go away.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

This is the data loving economist in me, but I do wonder during extremely troubling political times in this day and age, how much productivity slows down due to mental health issues and minds being hacked to keep people captive to feeds and sharing articles of the never-ending breaking news cycle.

just screams public service

Lowest consumer confidence since 2014:

You don't usually hear language this stark from the business-oriented Conference Board:

"Confidence collapsed to the lowest point since 2014, surpassing pandemic depths..."

"well below the threshold of 80 that usually signals a recession ahead..."

www.conference-board.org/topics/consu...

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