Shawn Farner

Just got off the most eerily quiet subway car ever. Totally packed but almost silent. I had to check to make sure I didn’t have ANC on. I knocked on something to see if I could hear it. Was like traveling with Falcons fans after the Super Bowl in 2017.

A co-worker and I stopped to ponder why we reflexively did that and decided going forward that when one of us sneezed we’d just say something nice to the other. “Achooo.” “That is a very dapper tie.”

Sounds very self-preservation-y :) Social guy has KPIs that work for him and isn’t eager to bring CTRs or conversions into the mix because someone might go, “WTF are we paying for”

My kingdom for a chunky phone that doesn’t have a camera bump and uses all that space for a bigger battery. One that lays flat on a desk.

Alissa Wilkinson Rages Against Tabloid Headlines: "The Absolute Worst"

I'm still listening to job offers but only if you are Auntie Anne's and only if the job title is "VP of AI Pretzel Futurism." I want people to be shocked it exists.

That’s when you weeping angel them. Look away BOOM back to 1742.

Xbox Game Pass adds 60 more games to your personal streaming library Microsoft has added another 60 games to the Stream Your Own Game library for Xbox Game Pass with its first update to the feature in November.

Everyone now catching on to the fact that Microsoft is juicing the Xbox "Stream Your Own Game" and "Play Anywhere" numbers with a bunch of games no one's ever heard of.

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I dunno. Maybe learn Unreal by porting 5, a game that is seemingly going to be trapped on the Xbox One forever.

Putting aside the very rough start, Master Chief Collection is kind of an achievement. Bringing multiple Halo games AND their multiplayer modes together into one interface — it took a lot. And it’s done. Sort of confused about why Microsoft wouldn’t want to push that everywhere.

I don't know what got into me.

YouTube TV Is Out To “Eliminate Competition,” Disney Execs Tell Employees In Carriage Fight Update YouTube TV wants to "eliminate competition" and "devalue the very content that helped them build their service," top Disney executives charged.

I genuinely thought this service would be dead by now. Outside of sports, appointment TV is on the outs and fighting with legacy media entities doesn’t seem like something Google would want to keep doing.

Given all the consolidation, there’ll soon be nothing left.

Bill de Blasio or DeBlasio? What happened when a longstanding newspaper failed to verify its source. A respected UK paper failed to verify it was talking to the right Bill de Blasio and quoted a wine importer instead of the former NYC mayor.

Not intending to let the reporter off the hook by any means, but there are few places left that aren’t being squeezed. Things are getting sloppier across the board.

Blogging, AI, and the SEO road ahead: Why clarity now decides who survives AI is rewriting discovery and retrieval. Clarity now decides which blogs stay visible through Google volatility and AI-powered search.

Long read but an interesting one.

What a rock and a hard place answer. And the complete opposite answer any individual person would give if confronted at work.

Why Branded Benchmarking Reports Are Everywhere Right Now - Contently If it feels like every vendor suddenly has a “State of Something” report, you’re not imagining it. Benchmark studies and branded data have become the new

Another interesting one. A little meta. Like anything, these will get played out.

The Financial Times’ AI paywall drove conversions up 290%. Now it's learning who stays A new model will connect directly to the existing paywall, feeding insight from long-tenure subscribers back into acquisition.

In service of the content creators. Not creating the content.

Why everything looks the same in 2025 The Copy-Paste World

WE USED TO HAVE FUN. waffledesigns.medium.com/why-everythi...

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I scored one goal in Superball and it booted me out of the game so, that was fun I guess.

Everyone in this session got Duffy right which scared me a little.

We’ll see if there’s still an audience for it when the time comes, but I think the fact that the Xbox team still has engineers on the console OS dishing updates and adding features bodes well for that experience living on.

27. Keeper

26. Little Nightmares 3

25. Detroit: Become Human

24. Call of Duty: Black Ops

Yeah any PC gamer has not just the entirety of the platform’s history, but pretty easily accessible emulation, too. No shot at $100.

Microsoft:

Needs 30% margins on Xbox

Sets a gajillion dollars on fire trying to make CoPilot a thing

“Yes.” *clicks publish*