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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Prompt: Write me a clever post so I can get internet validation.

Make it left-leaning, but in a socially comfortable way.

Maybe add in a little joke for share ability. Mix in a reference to Severance or White Lotus.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

“Things might be bad for a little while, but we’re okay with that, because we know that in the end these policies will drive markets into a deadly tailspin and push the economy to a point of no return."

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Targeting only people who are likeliest to buy your product is like handing out coupons by the register.

It's efficient in that you're not "wasting" money, but it's not effectively growing the business. Marketing isn't just buying transactions, it's building relationships.

#marketingsky #agencysky

Thread from user @karissabe, a picture of the female CEO of Bluesky speaking at SXSW. She is wearing a black tee with writing on it. The thread text reads: "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is wearing a Zuckerberg-style Latin tee onstage at SXSW today 👀 "Mundus Sine Caesaribus" -> "A world without Caesars" ... she also appears to be wearing a gold chain"

When they say "Fashion as resistance" - this is what they mean. She has a message for tech czars she's disrupting.

h/t @karissabe.bsky.social (image to include second post in thread)

💯. The Art of the Deal is basically “say crazy shit”, throw out threats, steal as much as possible.

Also, sorry. Definitely been there. File it away and sell it later to better clients.

Clients get the work they deserve. The ones that have great taste deserve more credit.

💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders.

Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

Yes. This is why going fully remote during the pandemic harmed the creative output. We lost the ambient feedback of being around experienced practitioners all the time. People didn’t learn from each other as much.

This is the difference between internal and external. Incentives change what is “good” over time. Taste calibrated with the outside world is an important part of what a good agency partner brings to the table.

This taste is shaped largely by incentives. When you are agency-side, you know your worth is dependent on the quality of your work over time. You need to make stuff that people like so you are closely attuned to what people like.

You can hire every single creative, producer, and account person from an agency you admire but not get the same level of work. The culture of an agency is what you are buying: their collective taste, the ability to know what is good and what is not.

Not particularly charming, clever, nor clear about what we're supposed to remember. All I end up thinking is that they've built Siri into ugly Raybans?

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

The Nazi stuff is the right’s way of baiting the left into focusing on it instead of the objectively criminal actions they are taking to shred the constitution, the rule of law, and the checks and balances that made America great in the first place.

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country WASHINGTON—According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country. “Our latest research and statistical analysis show...

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

AI: raising the floor, lowering the ceiling, making creative for free that no one will be influenced by.

YouTube video by Lifetime Trailer | I’ll be Home for National Margarita Day | A Lifetime Television Event Presented by Chili's

Cool is confidently embracing how uncool you are. #marketingsky

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They want to increase the birth rates and child mortality rates simultaneously 🤬

“Hey so we went ahead and wrote the brief without you, do you think you can take a look and punch it up?”

#trumpflation is only going to get worse and hurt the working class.

CPI Report: Inflation Rose Unexpectedly in January (Gift Article) The Consumer Price Index rose 3.0 percent from a year earlier as food and energy prices picked up.

U.S. inflation is rising as Trump pledged to bring prices down on day 1. But Trump likely won’t lose many voters. Because how they voted wasn’t about the inflation of prices. It was primarily about the perceived inflation of women and peoples of color in our society.
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"THE Philadelphia Eagles plan to snub an invitation to the White House after winning the Super Bowl, The U.S. Sun has learned."

Never trust anyone who states their trustworthiness in a percentage.

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

Yeah, I kinda felt like it needed it bit more of an idea to bring it home. The multi-mascot thing has been done before.

Best piece of writing = You can’t win. So win.

And flesh hats is going to be a meme somehow, mark my words.