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who has written about the way Bad Bunny is framed as a foreign artist by American media?

thank you for this, will see if I can find anything.

I legit witch-cackled when I got the latest @mcsweeneys.net in the mail. How they pull it off, I do not know.

But the dream of the 90s lives on.

this whole story is a josh siren

😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.

🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!

🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will

last chance to see it this year! STRANGE DAYS in 35mm tonight at BAM at 7pm!

'banking apps reshuffle funds to prevent overdrafts before they happen.'

I think a lot about payments For Work and because for most of my life having multiple accounts didn't mean I had money in any/all of them.

So: who's doing the most interesting research on payments for 'underbanked' people?

New leader tapped for CDC had stopped pushing vaccines amid flu surge Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director

A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new number two leader at the CDC.

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Deb Chachra, Metafoundry buttondown.com/metafoundry

The Norman Rockwell guy standing up to give a speech at a town hall meeting. He looks like a youngish Abe Lincoln.

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

Need something to watch this week? In this keynote I discuss:
1. The thinking behind passkeys; _why_ my team at Apple worked with others to evolve FIDO authentication
2. Using passkeys to replace passwords + traditional 2FA
3. Passkey data export/interoperability (putting "vendor lock-in" to rest)

Just got booked for two performances this holiday season!!!

They saw this old ass video and had the money ready 😭

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

between "study on honesty appears to have used fabricated data," "study on cognitive dissonance after thwarted expectations may not show what it was believed to" and possibly "data for study on use of AI generated by LLM" we're pretty close to either a Dramatic Irony bracket or a trend piece

'i won't link to this thing i'm critiquing with selective screenshots and outrage because i don't want to give them the pageviews'

information ecosystem brain rot

thank you to the PR email hosting provider who allows the option to check "never email me again"

Anyone have DND one shot recs that I could run for my elementary schooler cousins?

ITS CYBER MONDAY
ITS GIVING TUESDAY
ITS MENTAL BREAKDOWN WENDESDAY
ITS THANKSGIVING THURSDAY
ITS BLACK FRIDAY
ITS EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR SATURDAY
ITS SMALL BUSINESS SUNDAY

i would like all of this to stop

Reminded today by @imaniperry.bsky.social of the Ida B. Wells quote “The people must know before they can act…”; the second half of which is “…and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

Reflecting on the gap between knowing and doing, and the enormous variability of the press.

whimsical digital illustration

Avoiding public WiFi, QR codes, or public USB chargers doesn’t prevent you from being hacked. Happy to sign onto this open letter alongside 80+ cybersecurity veterans urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. www.hacklore.org

OpEd: Executive Editor Julie Pace on why AP is standing for your right to speak freely The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.

'When we talk about press freedom, we are really talking about your freedom. Reporters ask questions, photographers take pictures, and video journalists record history on your behalf to ensure that you are informed'

apnews.com/article/asso...

hah!

YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic The Harder They Come

RIP, Jimmy Cliff.

youtu.be/BpQrLUopf-k?...

we already figured out the ideal computer shape and must retvrn

I have already seen Black Friday ads, Black Week ads, Cyber Week ads... the week hasn't started yet!

Kaitlyn Greenidge siren!

three weeks before thanksgiving: black friday sale
two weeks before thanksgiving: cyber week sale
days before thanksgiving: even bigger sale

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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Duty Calls

xkcd.com/386/

@peark.es “driven partly by AI company treasury allocations”

a sentence designed to give me a stroke