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A Netflix home screen with a section titled "working from home? Just leave it on" marked in red.

So we're clearly racing to the bottom, right? No one gives a shit about doing the right, just, good, kind thing anymore? @netflix.com

Fuck off, Capitalism.

(Just the absurd pandering; not the American jobs promise.)

Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump Another tactic from Tim Cook to charm the president.

You spineless serf...

Stop Inventing Nazis When the Real Ones Are Right in Front of You Sydney Sweeney is not your enemy

@jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social wrote one of the few thoughtful pieces on this Sydney Sweeney bullshit. (Discovered via an equally rationally @cwarzel.bsky.social piece in @theatlantic.com.)

@nytimes.com and The Daily platforming @schumer.senate.gov after he fucked the Democrats.

I'll miss you, Wordle.

Bye.

Cleveland folks! I've got 2 tickets to see @youarestars.bsky.social tomorrow at @beachlandcle.bsky.social. They're touring for the 25th anniversary of Set Yourself on Fire (the most perfect album).

If you want 'em, they're yours! (When I saw them tour on this record in 2019, I died of happiness.)

Now we’re all set for the Fiona Apple halftime show next year

If civilization is ever going to be anything but a grandiose pratfall, anything more than a can of deodorizer in the shithouse of existence, then statesmen are going to have to concern themselves with magic and poetry.
~ Tom Robbins- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

RIP, Mr. Robbins. Say hi to my pops.

YouTube video by Nike So Win. | Nike

Damnit, Nike. Do I have to give you money the next time I need shoes?

youtu.be/b0Ezn5pZE7o

This!!! Why are more people not seeing it? I cannot take one more NY Times headline like "A Presidency That's Off the Rails. It Took Only Two Weeks."

Where can we scream this that's not just the void?

Andreessen Horowitz hiring Daniel Perry exemplifies what debates over preferential treatment are really all about. White men are actually rewarded professionally and personally by other white men for their willingness to commit acts of violence against people who threaten white male dominance.

Of course he did.

Anyway, where can I read more on this?

cc @juddlegum.bsky.social, @axios.com @nytimes.com

Is this ish legal? Are there non-obfuscated deals going on between the head of our government and the most powerful, wealthy people in the world?

HOW DO WE BURN IT TO THE GROUND?

(Related: is it better to keep Meta accounts but let them go dormant or to close them?)

He pushes his repulsive anti-DEI policies on privacy sector companies, threatening legal action if non-compliance. (Note that the executive order excludes veteran-serving organizations.)

4/

He does whatever TF he wants with Elon Musk, using his Capitalism-earned money to win an election.

3/

- He "saves" TikTok.
- He makes + $1 billion on a meme coin the day before his inauguration.
- He takes credit for a huge investment in AI infrastructure, conveniently announcing it alongside tech CEOS.
- He rolls back AI safety bills.

2/

Is anyone analyzing or writing about the obvious entanglement between our government and what seems like every visible, for-profit company in America?

1/

I'm having a really difficult time balancing self-preservation and awareness of the world falling apart.

Help?

a man wearing a hat and a tank top is standing in front of a body of water Alt: a man wearing a hat and a tank top is standing in front of a body of water

@johncampbell.bsky.social

I think you're probably right and I'm sad about it because a lot of folks loathe Meta but forget the Insta is owned by it (and therefore so is Threads).

Any other ideas about why it's gonna go down like that?

Are we talking about The Bear on this app?

This season is a marvel.

YES. I tried to play a version 9ish years ago and couldn't hack it because there was just too much shit.

Inventory management took more time than anything else and that's just not fun.

Yinzers, does your sunset look like this?

There's a place in Pittsburgh that makes one with: tomatoes, pine nuts, buratta, arugula, olive oil, and balsamic. So good.

A patient of his makes it. Gave him a bottle. He keeps it in his office and wanted to be sure I know that "I'm not a bitch but it's calming and will remind you (me) of Provence."

This fucking man.

And I slinked (slunk?) out, ducking from the spritz.

But I took a breath and there was a gentle wisp of lavender (not the pungent, soapy kind we have in the US).

"I love that, bb! What is it?'

He flipped the bottle towards me. French lavender. Spray the Bitch Away.

My cute husband recognized a Depressed Day and suggested I read in the hammock. (Did it. Perfection. More later.)

As I walked out of our office (library?) with a book, he held up this bottle, index finger on the trigger and said "come on, love!"

Googl advertising its suite of office products on The Daily podcast with the phrase "from any location across any device" is ironic AF.

(Yes, I work there and no, I don't personally care much about their RTO edict other than to recognize the hypocrisy of it.)

Love this! I'm guessing you're speaking to hardware (Pixel Fold and Apple Vision Pro)?

I think it's secondarily worth calling out how expensive it is to train & run the LLMs that Big Tech seems hellbent on productionizing.

When the Old Ways are all-but-deprecated, that cost will 💯 be passed to us.