Post a banger that isn’t in English. youtu.be/ShgAspeDRds?...

I think people were looking for things that were never going to happen, like Bad Bunny wearing an anti-ICE t-shirt. I read the show as quite political. The genius of it was packaging the politics in a way that felt coherent with the performance and personally relevant to Mr. Bunny.

Discord *should* age verify, but in reverse, and DQ anyone who looks older than 16. I’ve used it from time to time and it makes me feel like I have a concussion. I have to lie down afterwards.

Very much enjoying that this morning’s discourse is 100% Bad Bunny and 0% that dog-ass football game. Honestly, a win for the NFL.

The Super Bowl was literally played in Santa Clara, next door to San Jose, in a stadium normally used by a team associated with San Francisco.

So…next year, K-pop halftime show?

Well, taxonomically speaking, sugar cane *is* a grass. But, still…

Thank god that’s over.

OMG a touchdown! I may have a stroke!

Collinsworth [sweating profusely]: There’s uh…never been a team that died of embarrassment during the Super Bowl.

Absolutely not a gambler, but I feel like you could do OK just betting on “this drive’s gonna end in a punt” throughout this game.

My son: “The panoptidog!”

The Pats failing to convert on 2nd and 1 is emblematic of their day. (Complimentary.)

A field goal. Balance is maintained under heaven.

Alright back to trudging through this joyless game.

I mean, the halftime show is *significantly* better than the game, fwiw.

So, was the specific amount of twerking a point of negotiation between Bad Bunny and the NFL?

Kind of like he was by Pol Pot?

Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps

me tuning into football for the first time: patriots have an evil aura.

I regret to inform everyone that, after careful deliberation, I have decided to root for the Seahawks because NFL rules don’t allow both teams to lose.

Super Bowl LX Begins With Moment Of Silence For Failed Bay Area Startups

Lissen, this is my house, my fuckin’ rules. Someday soon you’re gonna move out and live on your own and then you can do whatever the fuck you want with your deviant friends and it’s your own business. But while you’re under my roof, THIS is how we arrange the dishwasher.

1) This is real. 2) Seems like a bad idea. 3) Some crisis PR person is going to earn a big paycheck down the line.

PR agencies are capable of doing shady stuff for shady clients, but I read this story and the "Democracy for Sale" report its based on and "intelligence files" seems like it might be overselling a bit?

this is how watching tv always feels to me tbh

Don't spoil the Super Bowl ads for me. I want to rubbish them in real time on bsky dot app this Sunday to help distract from the grim truth that I am watching the Pats and the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.

As a crisis PR person, my free advice to all of these people is to shut up. There are zero versions of this argument that leave you looking better than before you opened your mouth.

A former boss of mine had a PR aphorism that I've adopted: "Let's not break into jail."

All VW EV's should offer that option to pump simulated engine noise into the cabin, but it should only be the classic tweetling, air-cooled Beetle engine.

pretty happy to take the L on this one tbh

On a lighter note on this somewhat morose day, here’s fifteen feet of two inch webbing with a center grommet and a strap adjustment ring so I can re-thread my son’s scuba diving harness and backplate. He’s outgrown his previous setup.

I was scrolling the Other Site, and the Post absolutely nuked quite a strong Asia reporting team. What a tragedy.

I agree with this. I literally have a spreadsheet for tracking newsletter and podcast subs (and every other sub) and it makes me a bit crazy. I'm all for bundles, or "Defector" style co-ops that bring together several writers I like, but not all of whom I'd necessarily sub to individually.

After 8 years writing the tech column @washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI. You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com

Lizzie Johnson used to be at the SF Chronicle and wrote the definitive account of the huge wildfire that destroyed the CA town of Paradise back in 2018. (Called "Paradise," an amazing read.)

The thing about PR people is that many of us (especially old-school media relations types like me) are huge news junkies. I pay out of my own pocket for a pile of newspapers, magazines, indie news sites and newsletters, including the Washington Post.

Dude, SOME of us have to work. You know, to pay for the cat food.

Pogroms, mostly. With a dash of "following a girl" thrown in.

Be weird if this movie had a sort of "Rocky Horror" afterlife of midnight showings where deliriously stoned people bring squirt-guns, throw toast, interact with the dialogue, etc.

To be fair, navigating SFO international terminal drop-off on a busy day woud be the ultimate test of an AI reaching sentience, which we could measure through the stream of spontaneous profanity it produces.

Serially having to remind myself to never post this morning.

I worked in actual China for nearly a decade and my Chinese colleagues were literally always up for a party. Hard-working and very smart, but broadly the opposite of this performatively monastic bullshit.

Man, this could have gone so many more interesting directions after "New York City."

Back in 2022 or 23 I went to a very nice dinner party at the house of a wealthy guy in Woodside who was 100% convinced that SB-9 would lead to his family burning to death because "those people" would block his evacuation route when the inevitable wildfire came.

One way to read this is as Sepp Blatter shiving Gianni Infantino. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

As a longtime PR person, I have a theory that many lawyers are just fancy PR people. Nothing proves this more than an entertaining, written-for-press class-action lawsuit. williammoss.substack.com/p/the-people...

I wrote about how last month's class-action lawsuit over the marketing of McDonald's "McRib" sandwich was a clever bit of gross-out PR rooted in American ideas of which bits of an animal are "premium" and which are trash. williammoss.substack.com/p/the-people...

I am deeply ashamed of my prior statements and apologize without reservation. I will be stepping away from social media for the time being* to allow time for healing. *Two or three minutes.