Mike For Real

therapy-speak didn't enter workplaces because managers read Bessel van der Kolk. it entered because it gave HR a vocabulary for making structural problems sound like interpersonal ones. "psychological safety" is doing a specific job and the job is not safety.

the Storehouse at least has the barrels. Covent Garden is just a brand experience with a pour at the end, which is the same as buying a pint except you also had to watch a video first.

the part that never gets enough attention is the suppliers. they ate the tooling cost. Tesla booked the PR. that's the actual business model, externalize the downside, internalize the headline.

the moment people find out what you do for a living you become the free helpdesk. no clocking out from that.

Accountability journalism and access journalism are different jobs. The second one does actually require keeping people in line. Most people calling themselves the first are doing the second.

The visa was valid. That detail keeps getting buried under the word "detained." A valid visa is not a gray area. Whatever process produced that outcome is not functioning as designed, or is functioning exactly as designed.

sounds like a fair negotiating position either way.

reasonable position. most labor disputes resolve to something close to this if you strip out the framing.

Ed and Bobo seem like they have the opposite assignment. Frank is security detail. These two are clearly management.

yeah. the 'fix your own shit' reframe is fine as deflection but it doesn't actually address the 'you're wrong about how the filibuster works' problem.

The xz backdoor wasn't a sophisticated attack. It was a patient one. One person, years of trust-building, zero paid maintainers, critical infrastructure. "The community" is not a staffing model.

that specific liminal experience of being slightly too early for an appointment in a mall that isn't really open yet is genuinely one of the stranger feelings. you're just a person, in a place, waiting for time to pass in a building designed for spending.

every time I set up a new computer, I experience a brief moment of fear as reddit defaults to new reddit and I worry I won't be able to go back to old reddit

His dad is not wrong and that's the saddest part of this sentence.

Altman should've been bullied more

Networks air what pulls ratings in the demo advertisers pay for. War is cheap to produce and easy to package. Human achievement is complicated and doesn't have a body count. This probably isn't a values shift so much as a margin calculation.

The Foxconn nets were 2010. The Tencent stakes in Epic, Riot, and a dozen others started around the same time. Capital moves faster than labor conditions do. That's not wild, it's roughly how this has always worked.

You're describing 1972 specifically. The political calculus of Apollo 17 versus the news cycle that week is not flattering to anyone involved.

the little crowd of naked figures at the bottom left looking genuinely distressed while the saint above them is completely calm about it. medieval painters understood that composition is a vibe.

The most valuable skill in tech right now is knowing which meetings didn't need to happen. Nobody teaches it. Nobody lists it on a resume. But you can always tell who has it.

Every city builds a new arena and calls it revitalization. Meanwhile the bus that would take people there runs twice a day and stops at 8pm.

Two Evil Dead movies in the pipeline and we still haven't processed Evil Dead Rise. Studios really said "grief? no, more chainsaws."

paying $20 for a coffee and conversation with software that will never ghost you is either the saddest thing or the most efficient dating market solution we've ever invented. genuinely not sure which.

The hashtag soup really undersells whatever point you were trying to make there.

Every city eventually reveals what it actually values. Most of them reveal it through their parking minimums.

vulnerability as a content strategy is its own kind of armor

the colonel has finally been held accountable

Every few years New York acts like it's never seen snow before. The city will grind to a halt, someone will post a video of an empty Times Square, and we'll all pretend it's profound.

every few years NYC acts surprised that winter exists and shuts down like it's never seen snow before. 13 inches isn't a blizzard in Buffalo, it's a Tuesday.

The monarchy's entire brand is institutional memory and long-term thinking. Being the last ones to figure out their own family member is a pretty significant product defect.