A big conspiracy theory of mine is that expense software is made intentionally slow and complicated so as to discourage employees from submitting too many expenses.

For @fastcompany.com I looked at the roll out of credit card-thin high efficiency, made—in-the-US windows, their rapid commercialization, and why it may be as much of a design story as a energy efficiency gain www.fastcompany.com/91411247/cor...

Not sure how this would actually work but Bluesky should have done some airline status matching thing where Twitter users were guaranteed their same number of followers if they came over.

Climate tech has become a meaningless buzzword: www.fastcompany.com/91411073/cli...

My child apparently can’t stand the sight of Zach Galifinakis so we need to watch the new Lilo and Stitch with my hand on the pause button so I can skip forward every time he appears. The second he does she starts screaming “THE GUY! THE GUY!”

This is funny because if you just absorb the vibes from internet gossip headlines, Zach Bryan’s career is largely over after losing a feud with Barstool.

One very funny outcome of this is that they’re going to have to scramble together some thing that could vaguely be construed as the medbed to indignantly point to.

Saw a 12 year old boy at the coffee shop wearing a Paul Simon Graceland shirt and I’ve never been closer in my life to doing a “name three songs!”

A center-lib a blue city encounters (at work, socially, in family) people to their left who annoy them personally. The few they meet to their right are respectful and in their social/professional circle. They never encounter the annoying right. It can shift their understanding of the landscape.

This innumeracy is, I think, part of the umbrella “who was president in 2020?” problem.

Pretty refreshing to have a utopian conspiracy theory instead of one about something evil, if I’m being honest. I’ll take these all day.

One funny thing about Tylenol that bizarrely seems to not have entered the MAHA handwringing about it is that we have no idea how it works: medicine.tufts.edu/news-events/...

Truly a remarkable transformation from Oldman

Why does every documentary still include a bit where the talking head is adjusting their mic and a zoom out where you can see the set up? Isn’t that cliche at this point?

Guess it's good for our democracy that they're so unworried about a coup. Historically, all the military top leaders gathering together does not usually work out well for the regime: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Even taking at face value the idea that moms taking Tylenol causes autism, it obviously needs to interact with some other mechanism (or there would be way more autism), and it's interesting that in all this, they have not seemed to even float any ideas about what those other factors might be.

Now if Trump and RFK would just come out and say “Tylenol does not seem to actually reduce any pain when you take it and we think it might be fake” … I could get on board with that in a second.

Cannot describe how many orders of magnitude better and more thoughtful this is than the average politician's High Holidays message.

This is simply not the case, do not exercise like this.

dudes rock

You cannot possibly guess where this long Instagram caption about a same-sex wedding ends up.

Before I had a child, I bought A is for Activist for multiple friends with children. Now that I have a child, I have gone back and apologized and sought to make amends.

The man who said these words also pretended to not know the plot of Les Mis to try to seem like an Everyman.

My kid is suddenly and aggressively dropping her nap, which seems unfair of her to add to everything else going wrong in the world.

At the 2028 debate, the Democrat says to JD Vance: “I knew Donald Trump, and you, sir, are no Donald Trump.”

Really believe this a lot of this is because they have a very liberal employee or family member who annoys them personally.

Is Sonos the largest company with a product that works the least consistently?

At the Fast Company Innovation Festival this week, ACLU legal experts spoke about why corporate America should resist government overreach. f-st.co/TGLlMYR

Anything else happen between 2017 and 2024 you guys want to note in here?

Imagine there is quite a fight tonight between various high-powered Hollywood litigators over who is going to get to file what seems like an easy win in Kimmel’s surely impending breach of contract case.

A thing you can put into the bank is that in the medium-term future the Western states health alliance and the Eastern states health alliance are going to differ on some minor health reccomendation and you’re going to have to read 10,000 angry things about it.

Not the point but I can't stop staring at it: What is that apostrophe doing after Liddle????

Often times at major metro airports the precheck line is longer than the regular line. Now that you don’t have to take your shoes off in the regular line, it feels like the whole system could potentially crash soon. What’s the point of precheck if it’s slower and not any easier?

Making a Time Machine and abandoning my baby Hitler plans to instead go back to the set of a Sunday morning show in the mid-2000s and read this aloud to a young Bill Kristol.

Cruelty-free toothpaste tastes awful. I can’t believe the secret ingredient that makes normal toothpaste taste okay is cruelty.

My kid is really growing into playing by herself, it’s wonderful to see. Sadly, she is only interested in doing so at the most inconvenient times.

Why you want to avoid automating your push alerts:

I’m not sure how many media elites with newly strong opinions about Charlie Kirk’s debating have ever actually clicked and watched a video of a guy debating college students.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Feeling seen

Has Trump said anything about Nepal yet? It will be amazing when he does.

The parents who engineered school lunch inflation should be more vilified. Now you have to have 10 little containers of different colored stuff or your kid complains that their lunch isn't as good as the other kids. Where's the solidarity between parents?

The very square Governor of Utah referencing a meme to denounce social media as cancer is pretty instructive about the difficulties we will have fixing any of this.

Incredibly likely that we start getting anonymous quotes from the FBI blaming the length of the manhunt on Utah law enforcement being too woke.

Well-funded establishment candidate loses by 50 in the primary to incumbent mayor whose popularity is built on leftist policies. But you never hear about her in discussions of Democratic politics and policy. This is because of, uh, a deep and malignant anti-Boston bias. www.wcvb.com/article/josh...

The new Learned League thing where the key part of the question is bold is so gauche. Sorry that you had to actually read? Makes me think it has finally gotten too big.

Lost in the debate about whether people are celebrating the death is that the large majority of posts on X about it seem to be just (often not very funny) jokes about the event but with no real political valence?

Just had the realization that the decades of attacks at abortion clinics (including 11 murders) is not being tallied in the discussion of the rise and ideology of modern political violence.

Fearful we are all going to be thinking about this Wikipedia page a lot soon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_o...