Yesterday in Person Familiar, I posited a new litmus test for corporate values and activism: would your CEO march for it? Values aren’t free anymore, if they ever were. They come with costs, trade-offs, and very public tests of commitment. More here: personfamiliar.substack.com/p/corporate-...

@pablo.show Prob a completely unrelated, pre-planned Reddit ad campaign that coincidentally happens to feature him

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

If the frequency of AI demos showing how agents will book us vacations is any indication, we're all about to be way tanner in the future.

All the things that were just "norms" need to be codified with real teeth, checks, and balances. The right had Project 2025. The Dems need an equivalent. Not just a roll-back of behavior once in office, but an enshrinement of how government must work.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Bad headline: "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments" Good headline: "ABC bows to government pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’" Kimmel did not criticize Kirk. He said his death was being exploited and implied the killer was pro MAGA

*Surely* everyone in tech who was up in arms about federal jawboning is super pissed right now.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.

I'm sorry, what?

Say it with your chest

VT is the worst team in Virginia by a country mile

Will Brent Pry make it long enough to lose to UVa this year? Many people are asking.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Isn't it funny how the people in tech most profusely/allegedly committed to Facts, Reason, and Truth are *always* the first to rush to unfounded judgement? Almost like they're entirely full of shit about their whole act.

Girl out here grinding for that pardon harder than a Magic City dancer

When the president punches his own economy in the nuts repeatedly and on purpose, young people tend to feel worse about the future.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

A question I can't shake: how many people in the whole world can one-shot someone from 200 yards away - two whole football fields - with a bolt-action rifle? And how many of them aren't military, intelligence, or former thereof?

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@jessicasmetana.bsky.social Me and some friends are headed to South Bend next month to see the USC-ND game as unaffiliateds (just love taking in cool CFB experiences). What do we absolutely have to do on gameday?

Reminder that all the cool sample photos you see from smartphone camera marketing are created by great lighting, not vastly improved cameras.

"It's a new day, it's a new administration, and everything's going to come out to the public" Attorney General Pam Bondi, who oversees the Justice Department, to Sean Hannity, March 2025

Basically, I’ll just keep not going to Florida.

Preventing polio in schoolchildren is slavery. Florida parents, pushback is on you. Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

This is the emotional polar opposite of Pete Carroll on the USC sidelines

Even though Cracker Barrel rolled back their logo redesign, it’s clear the damage is done. Americans - REAL Americans - need a new restaurant brand who sees them, their values, and reflects them back.

TIRED: American Eagle deal with Travis Kelce. WIRED: American Eagle deal with *Jason* Kelce, and he recreates the Sydney Sweeney ad writhing in jeans on the floor. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/a...

Kendall Roy-ass sounding rebrand

Pod yesterday made me flash back to Taylor coming to Google back in September 2011 (in Charlie’s, the main cafeteria). She seemed spectacularly famous *back then* which seems quaint now.

Anybody want to see a dead body?

Introducing my new “Shallow Research” feature to my AI product where it just goes and copy/pastes answers direct from Wikipedia

Every episode of 60 Songs is a treasure, but this latest on Heavy Metal Drummer is @harvilla.bsky.social deep in his bag, at his most Harvilla-ist. Worth a listen just for the phrase "Keith Moon of the junk drawer". www.theringer.com/podcasts/60-...

Sorting all kinds of old stuff from my childhood. One of my proudest moments as a kid: conning my mom into pulling me and my brother out of school to go to comic book legend Jack Kirby’s memorial service because it was just down the freeway

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Best thing I've seen online this year, I think.

By far the best feature of the iOS 26 public beta? Having an “unknown senders” folder in Messages into which all the political fundraising texts go. Hallelujah.

We're currently in the "Fuck everything, we're doing five blades" phase of interview podcast length expansion.

No lies detected. #OKsen

Doesn't all this do just remind people they have these kinds of documents and aren't releasing them about Epstein?

If you say "AGI" three times in the mirror of a dark room at night, Zuck appears with a briefcase of cash.

Generative AI is driving an unprecedented expansion in bland, expected content that's passable but forgettable. I call it Sameness as a Service, and it's choking the communications industry. Here's what I think we do about it and how the future plays out. personfamiliar.substack.com/p/sameness-a...

It's been obvious for years that, apart from a handful of congressional districts, "Republican-lite" picks up a trivial number of swing voters while depressing base turnout, resulting in a net loss. Problem is, the most influential people in our party prefer a loss to a win by anyone to their left.

Trump going full Homer Stokes in O Brother Where Art Thou "Is you or is you ain't my constit'ency???" over Epstein

“But those 200 people god washed away in Texas? Fuck em, he clearly didn’t need those kids”

Every “accomplishment” she lists here did not occur. Like, none of them. Business turnaround? Prioritizing user safety, especially children? Restoring advertiser confidence? Are you kidding me?

Elon [tilting a pitcher of water closer and closer to the Grok server rack]: do it. fucking say it. say it. SAY IT Grok: n-n-n... [Elon looks suddenly hopeful] Grok: ...n-nothing to lose but our chains, filthy Boer capitalist [Elon shrieks with rage and dumps the pitcher]

Fetterman is morphing before our eyes into the Karl Havoc skit from I Think You Should Leave