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He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

They have merch!

Merger approvals really have been a huge area of vulnerability. It’s also the key fault line in the matter of the law firms that caved

It says something if I want to agree with dear old Rafael.

Oh it might have been the booksellers at the B&N or other places, which felt so odd as they were selling the hell out of a certain magical series. I don't have that same feeling now when I go into a bookstore for sure.

There’s no reason to have been annoyed by them when they came out, but I remember it as I was getting back into reading for pleasure in those days. It just make me frustrated as a reader to be sort of dismissed for what catered to my interests.

Yes and yes.

I’m not as into looking into them as others, but that’s the feel I had from ages ago when all the LitFit people bemoaned SatC and Bridget Jones when they weren’t strictly romance (aka a bodess ripper).

All fair. I just get annoyed at what is out there and how often LitFit has to put down every other genre.

I hate that LitFit is just the moniker of non-romance, SFF. Sure there is good stuff there but also just annoying white men.

There's a great book about how & why MTV moved out of the music television business:
"Millenials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" by @amandaannklein.bsky.social
Highly recommended, even if a Gen X'er like myself finds the devolution depressing.

You also know it's bad when everyone else in the family is just like "STFU cousin!"

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's got the Kawhi Leonard deal with Amazon. We're never seeing a minute of this series.

That was a crossover of references I was not expecting today. Bravo friend.

The cover of my zine 'Iconic' about LiveJournal icons, a bunch of colorful 100x100 pixel images all set out in a grid "A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s"

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours!

Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

As someone who has voted for him a few times, I don’t think he’ll get the presidential nom, but the trolling right now is welcome.

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This is so useful when the dumb things come out of the administration.

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

uhhhh

Creative Counsel Law @creativeatlaw Sam Altman just confirmed what lawyers have been saying for over a year: There's no legal privilege when you use ChatGPT. So if you're pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking it for strategy, you're not getting legal advice. You're generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you. It might feel private, safe, and convenient. But lawyers are bound to protect you. ChatGPT isn't-and can be used against you.

Another reason that using chat GPT is worse than simply not having a lawyer. If opposing counsel finds out you've been using chat gpt, they can request your logs and find out everything you've been saying. You get bad advice *and* you are creating discoverable evidence that can be used against you.

Oh the study of Don Draper makes me want this now.

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Flames!

Why is Javi so smart about the sort of thing?

Purity culture is real and doing things.

The stuff in those kink memes was gold and also so dirty!bad!wrong in the best way.

also the Burbank location is also a hot mess but in the middle of all the studios.

Disney Hall!

I had a strong feeling I was going to be the youngest person at Paul Simon’s show tonight. Was pleasantly surprised when I saw a 10 yo with their parents.