Joe Webster

One battle after another for email
marketers and newsletter publishers.

Long live the Bog.

“Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors”

Stable geniuses at work.

EU foreign policy chief:

“.. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.”

@kajakallas.bsky.social

The Sun: The Fight House #TomorrowsPapersToday

This one? FT links don’t seem share friendly. app.ft.com/content/4e3f...

Interesting piece in the FT hypothesizing how this will all play out. digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX?pid=af_...

What’s a Leyton Orient?

Oh good. KU with another commanding half time lead. 😠

Which three countries are co-hosting the World Cup next year?

Take that, Wordlebot

Having a relevant hometown American football team again feels good. Still hate the E-L-G-S-E-S.

The rationale for using encrypted texting apps. Asked a cinematographer friend over iMessage (did not search for this anywhere or as AI) how the opening scene of a TV show was shot and this pops up on Insta a day later.

I was on the sideline in the closing minutes of the NFC championship in '82 when Montana hit Clark. Been doing this awhile. And I've never seen anything like the Commanders. Not the most dominant team, but the most surprising, engaging, and true-hearted.

I think he pointed ChatGPT at 4chan to write this.

Yeah, it’s silly

So the storm is called Blair and all I can think of is this.

Bluesky will arrive if it becomes the place Mid-Atlantic people go to freak out about 8-10 inches of snow.

Efficiency > Winning

So Apple’s big iOS 18.2 AI image creation release is…Bitmoji?

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads

In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

4,000 members — a major milestone in the effort to foster online transparency and trust Celebrating 4,000 members. The CAI now spans five continents and multiple industries — including creators, media organizations, technology companies, camera and smartphone manufacturers, academics, NG...

The Content Authenticity Initiative now has 4k members across the globe working to implement a global open standard for digital content provenance! A digital nutrition label to help us better assess what we are looking at! Here I write about our work.
contentauthenticity.org/blog/celebra...

Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.

@dieworkwear.bsky.social may be of some assistance

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.

This wouldn’t be so concerning had we not lost the ability to think critically. www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/two-...

This feels much more like good twitter after two days than the Meta version ever did. One assumes that won’t make it to ‘26. Google Buzz vibes.

Wordle 1,247 4/6*

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