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~11 years ago, I was the most junior person in a big marketing meeting, our client was concerned that we were spending so much more on Facebook videos instead of TV commercials. I have not forgotten the expressions of the room as I gently explained that the TV was, at best, the "second screen" now.

This game is basically goofy 3D N64-esque Vampire Survivors and it's like $8 right now store.steampowered.com/app/3405340/...

By ill fates or by design, the last ~15 years of media and technology have left us where there is no way to build an audience (for news, media, music, podcasts, for anything really) without reliance on existing network effects. If you have a story, how do you get it to people without Posting?

They can't keep letting him get away with this...

NEXT WEEK: Cafe Music, a traveling night of intentional music listening, is back at Le Dive with artist and designer Liv Ryan as our guest selector for the evening. Limited tickets still available. www.eventbrite.com/e/cafe-music...

The last few months have proven out that we have a media apparatus, press, and government woefully ill equipped to deal with a generation of irony poisoned and blackpilled young (mostly) men who, because the long tail of American politics, have unfettered access to guns and ammo.

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

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please do not post things you don’t want to see on The Free Press and Fox News later this evening

The first rays of sunlight in the continental United States, earlier this morning.

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Trump take tabis???

In a "medium is the message" kind of way, I don't love this direction of media/news skewing towards 2+ hour long videos, cut into 2:00 clips for Twitter, cut into :10-:15 clips for TikTok/Instagram. It's an insufferable way to try and transmit and digest info, especially for topics with any nuance.

Are you opening a "listening bar" or are you opening just another orange wine and $20 "house martini" bar with an expensive sound system plugged into the POS iPad?

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Neil Young (with The Chrome Hearts) at the Jones Beach Theater. Neil sounding great on both vocals and guitar. Good mix of b-sides, hits, and some more contemporary stuff. The tide was so high they had to close off GA, which by the end of the show was half flooded. Keep on rocking in the free world.

The people need to know Mamdani's stance on kernel level anticheat

All I am asking for is one (1) week of NYC summer that does not involve: A) It is about to/currently tropical storm conditions B) It feels like 90F+ outside C) Both A and B combined

My computer seems to be totally borked thanks to a careless BIOS move, so I'm likely in the market for a new PC. I like the aesthetic of NZXT but I'm sure there are better pre-builts out there so... who's got recommendations?

My Lyft driver is watching Sinners on picture-in-picture mode over Waze on his phone.

Dead and Company 8/2/25, Golden Gate Park: weird set era continues, Midnight Hour opener leads a high energy first set. Sit in from Sturgill on a guitar heavy Morning Dew. Grahame Lesh sits in on second set St. Stephen. Brokedown Palace ends the set with no encore following.

Sturgill Simpson opening for night two of Dead & Company’s 60th anniversary shows. Some very extended jams, a slightly clunky “if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention” followed by a Bulls on Parade drop and a big Whiter Shade of Pale cover.

In pursuit of small levels of fame and internet notoriety, many have taken to flattening their criticism to blanket statements. Barbs should be specific. The problems are not abstract, they are concrete and caused by people with names. Who is making things worse, and why? What is the end game?

Taking a Waymo to the Sun Ra Arkestra concert.

Third time in maybe a month I’ve ordered some variation of a house martini and gotten “it’s a very “spirit forward” cocktail, is that ok?” in response. It’s a martini, my good sir, I’d be concerned if it wasn’t “spirit forward.”

Night Flight

There are Zabar’s everywhere for those with eyes to see

The video is goofy, the guy ducking out looks wild, but these are not public figures and it feels extremely gross to make a 24 hour news cycle about these people getting caught very publicly in an affair. Don't cheat on your significant other but I do not care to see your brand post memes about it!

New frontrunner for Album Title of the Year: "Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day" rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/crashi...

“Do you guys have any orange wine?” is the new “what IPA do you have on draft?”

congrats to linda yaccarino on being named the new team principle for red bull racing

Just, as a group, lets agree that "A.I.dolf" is much better than "MechaHitler" when referring to Grok's latest antisemitic update.

Christian Horner fired at Red Bull, Yacc out at Twitter. What a massive news day for me personally.

The United States government is operating a concentration camp in Florida.

Calling the commodification and monetization strategies of every tech company/product "enshitification" as a catch-all is becoming less useful over time. The companies and their leadership are actively making things worse to use in different ways, it is worth being specific about how and why.

Trade policies dictated but not read

"Rematch is like if they made a Rocket League soccer game..."

Here's how you can help those impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Texas Hill Country, along with safety tips for dealing with flood warnings and what to do when you encounter flood waters.

Ah yes, I see the Torment Nexus now has "agentic AI" features

Just mumbling "we're so cooked" to myself over and over while reading this. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Just got served an ad that felt suspiciously familiar, went back and looked to realize that the tagline (and likely the strategy) were almost word for word lifted from a spec pitch I gave said company that I got paid $500 for as part of the multi-round interview process there back in February.

Free Solo (2018)

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

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If there is one thing the national reach of the NYC mayoral race can teach Democrats everywhere else in the US, it is this point exactly. For a party that has been floundering on how to act, how to reach anyone under the age of 50, and how to actually behave like an opposition party, take notes.

Putting on the Funkmaster Flex 20:00 Otis premiere just to get into the right headspace rn