It’s perhaps a little skewed that when my internal dialogue invokes “Say hello to my little friend,” it’s referencing a hair styling implement. 💈👩‍🎤

The concept of The Long Tail: I can’t tell if it’s too old or still too new to be taught as part of the core US university bus/econ curriculum but as far as I can tell it’s absent.

The Hunting Wives offers many takeaways for its viewers in America and beyond. Scrutinize your ethics and moral choices. Guard against cloying and unhealthy ovetparenting. But foremost among the show’s messages has to be: your undergarment options are, in all likelihood, past due for an upgrade. 🩲

Check out @meganmorrone.bsky.social’s thoughtful piece on whether and how your digital twin can survive your demise. Tip of the iceberg stuff here. Well-researched too (I’m quoted 😉).

New episode of R&D with D&D, fascinating discussion of AI issues and how to move past them with @merbroussard.bsky.social @davidslevine.bsky.social and me, join us! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Huge/upset win for University of San Diego/USA at the #henley Royal Regatta: youtu.be/elognG2N2Zo

New Podcast Episode: Security Now: Pervasive Web Fingerprinting How Websites Tracks You Despite Cookie Blocks with Steve Gibson, @leolaporte.me

Damned if you do…

The best and most nuanced take on the public land sale aspects of the proposed budget is by @kylefrost.bsky.social: mountaingazette.com/blogs/mounta... Kyle writes the Here & There newsletter for Mountain Gazette.

And with that we’re officially done as a species, where can we find a willing asteroid? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3USd7R/

Great news! 🌲🏔️ www.powder.com/news/mike-le...

There comes a time when deciding to reorganize your closet replaces deciding to get a gym membership.

Labubu and geopolitics: www.thefashionlaw.com/labubu-a-bra...

1/2 Bad news for skiers, snowboarders, backpackers, anglers, and all who love mountains and wilderness. Here’s info and a letter to senators that asks them to stop the public land sale or create a carve-out. It hits winter sports but can be adapted as you like. www.peakrankings.com/content/a-dr...

Delivery services should let you enter a grocery list without picking a store. You specify sizes, brands, quantities, and max price. Then the service should assemble your delivery from a range of nearby stores, getting you the best deals and minimizing out of stock issues. Seems doable.

Din din: smoky taro hummus inspired by Merriman’s. Tip, it needed considerably more fresh lemon juice and olive oil than this recipe suggests; 3/4 cup lemon juice and probably about the same for oil. www.recipezazz.com/recipe/smoke...

Din din: sourdough pub cheese avocado toast with smoked salt, microgreens, and red onion.

🎧 New episode of This Week in Tech! YouTube's becoming TV, AI is replacing creatives, and $3,000 humanoid robots are now a thing. @leolaporte.me, @loumm.bsky.social, @docrock.bsky.social, @iainthomson.bsky.social break it all down. 🎙️ buff.ly/e7cEHDh #TechTalk #AIUpdates #TWiT

Endor: the Andor series, recast with Ewoks in the human roles. 🧸🌖💫

Newsome should enthusiastically embrace reopening Alcatraz (aka federal funding for jobs for Californians), while nationally promoting all the upcoming Escape from Alcatraz swims. www.pacificswim.co/alcatraz-swi....

Why yes, we have in fact entered the DJ Summer Camp era. E.g. academy.scratch.com/courses/kids...

Discovered it’s possible to machine wash my couch cushion covers without shrinking or ruining them, and I can’t tell you how simultaneously enslaving and liberating this is.

Furniture, consumer electronics, clothing stand to be hit hardest by tariffs, likely to see secondhand and resale sales grow. Electronics seems most ripe for opportunity. Who will build the ThredUp of iPhones? eBay and Amazon already offer lots of refurbished tech, but someone should jump on this.

if u see this post ur getaway vehicle

Chatbot therapist helping me work through abandonment issues because my cat bonded to the AI vacuum & now ignores me.

I don’t know when hotel concierge services got worse than just asking your friends/extended friends for help, in whatever location, but we’ve definitely crossed that rubicon. And given various US policies and their hospitality industry ramifications, do not neglect those personal relationships. 🤝

“Wheatberry.”

“[I]n any case, they're replacing hours that people would be watching human content.”

🤖🐝😳

My panel with @daniel-solove.bsky.social, @mariotrujillo.bsky.social, and @alexreevegivens.bsky.social on DOGE, the Privacy Act, and how to protect privacy in our new authoritarian regime can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eQ...

So, next moves for Harvard: going tuition-free until tax-exempt status restored, foregoing sponsored research, rethinking endowment investments to minimize tax eligibility, and riding this out. Not to mention throwing the full weight of Harvard law into myriad legal challenges.

There is so much about Costco that is quintessential USA, but the thing that strikes me most at the moment is how none of the parking is striped for compact cars. 🚙

This factoid is difficult to wrap my head around — probably because each of the 520 has been a blast. 🤩

New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: 20 Years in the Can Delete IP Law?, Recall Roll Out, Not Dire Wolves with @leolaporte.me, @sam.abuelsamid.com, Allyn Malventano, @padresj.bsky.social

🎉 Are you watching TWiT’s 20th Anniversary episode?! It’s happening now—don’t miss the celebration, surprises, and stories from two decades of tech! 📺 Tune in live: youtube.com/live/uG7PT0A... 🎈 #TWiT20 #TechHistory

heading to DC this weekend to see Zuck, Sandberg, etc take the stand. this antitrust case has been a long time coming www.theverge.com/policy/64682...

Happy to spend the rest of my days reviewing restaurants for Check Please! Bay Area. If you can hook me up I promise to remember you most fondly in my will.

Love that Charli D'Amelio and Kierkegaard were in the same round of Jeopardy.

I haven’t watched/listened yet but it sounds like she reiterated the most jaw-dropping parts of her book under oath, particularly with respect to accommodating China and “emotionally targeted” ads.

And this comes close to capturing why I feel so inexplicably comforted and fulfilled that she seems to have re-embraced her YouTube roots.

I hope that we can teach kids how to have healthy relationships to technology as opposed to trying to shield them from something they’re going to find a way to access anyway, but then again that would require adults to have a healthy relationship with technology

Among the many other stupid things about today is that Trump's reported deal to save TikTok appears to let it keep running exactly as is without addressing the reasons Congress banned it in the first place www.platformer.news/trump-tariff...

Periodic reminder that the law makes no provision for the president to just extend the deadline as many times as he wants

Today in the art of the deal

Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to extend tomorrow’s TikTok sale deadline by 75 more days.

Remember when TikTok was a “national security concern”? @washingtonpost.com @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Influencers who help people understand how to shop secondhand and style secondhand clothes: you’re on the cusp of a moment: trellis.net/article/tari... #fashionsky

Keep an eye on the health care and health insurance industries. Things are likely to get more expensive, despite some carve-outs. www.axios.com/2025/04/03/p...

A (likely unintended) consequence of the tariffs announced today is a big boost to the global secondhand clothing market. And thus also to reducing the environmental impact of clothing production and textile waste occasioned by excess donated clothing. www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2...

Could be that gens Z and Alpha create and relate to short form video not because they’re less literate or more ADHD but because they’re clever, long on snark, and have killer skin care regimens?