Matt Alston

It’s less specific, but “platform decay” gets you most of the way there

They’re calling it the most successful Super Bowl ad of all time?

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

pro-virus administration

Ring cams are bad but if everyone decides to chuck the surveillance state it could be devastating to America's Funniest Home Videos viewers specifically. Is it really worth the amount of porch falls we'll lose?

honestly keep talking Noam it makes it easier to continue building the trebuchet that will launch you into the volcano

post a banger that's not in english
youtu.be/unYu22Ign1E

:: extremely Roger Daltrey scream::
"YEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHH!!!!"

missed my daughter's first-ever flip turn at swim practice tonight because me and another dad got distracted talking about the film grain on the new Eyes Wide Shut Blu-ray, thanks @criterion.bsky.social

googling "does my video camera bird feeder work with the department of homeland security" and now my eye has a twitch that won't go away

Draper pitch meme, whiteboard says “Adam Driver and Kesha?”

we've moved from "gambling is resource extraction, from the bettor to the sports book" to "gambling is fracking, actually, and it doesn't just take it actually also leaves poison in the place they drill"

cc @theloaraxe.bsky.social

In my father-in-law's workshop he writes the year he bought machines in black sharpie right on them (lathe, drill press, etc.)

At some point he carried the practice over to his home, and frankly it rocks to know that his Bose CD player is from 1998 or his toaster is from 2004. Good shit.

I still remember the list: Aziz Ansari, Donald Glover, The Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Channing Tatum, Selena Gomez, Steph Curry, Serena, Lena Dunham, McConaughey. I would add notes to decks like "consider Tom Wilkinson"

— and one day some big VP Creative came by to shoot the shit with my coworker and while yapping with us, I saw his eyes scan the wall, land on the board, and *immediately* understand that we'd been tracking now Not-Creative his creatives were, and he went completely pale. A highlight of that job.

I was a copy editor at a big firm ~10 years ago, and we read for all accounts and pitches, etc. In our little office we had a white board with a running list of the celebrities that Creative would add to pitch decks. 7 tallies next to Donald Glover, 5 next to Lena Dunham, 20 next to Kendrick Lamar —

How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.

Wrote about prediction markets and gambling for @thenation.com

Yes, obvious moral hazard and arena for fraud, but also, turning every second of life a betting asset is a gross mutation of Attention-Capture Economy.

(Quoted @chrislhayes.bsky.social twice, duh)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Said it here before I think, but Mackenzie Scott gave a music center one town over from mine a couple million bucks and it improved the little downtown stretch immeasurably. We go contra dancing there, my kid does some summer camps and fiddle lessons there. a drop in the bucket for her!

I get by with a little help from my friendo

by far the biggest difference between my own childhood and my 6-year-old daughter’s is the status and cultural footprint of the axolotl

+ reading six books for a free pan pizza

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

“Losing sleep”

@theloaraxe.bsky.social introduced me and now it’s gonna be my go-to Christmas present for the unwashed

The Washington State cheese can + box of triscuits is also one of the coolest things to bring to a party. Better than a bottle of wine by a factor of 10.

calling my agent and telling them I spent the whole time pitching “zelensky finds a time machine and brings Union generals to Ukraine in 2024” instead of the script the Warner execs liked. The line is silent for 2 full minutes, and then …. “would they even try to keep grant away from the vodka?”

by the transitive property here, Joshua Chamberlain would end the Ukraine war in an afternoon

& the David Hidalgo verse in "Myth of Fingerprints" is perhaps the most American-sounding 30 seconds of music outside of Bruce's Nebraska and the Forrest Gump soundtrack.

In the same way that the last 4 years of Beatles releases invented like 7 genres, the album Kiko contains like 13 genres