France lost 2–0? And moved to the semifinals? #whichwhich

Silent film fans: Tickets now on sale for one-night-only screening of Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last" (1923) + two shorts + live orchestral accompaniment! Wednesday Aug 26 7 pm, at Oakland's Art Deco Grand Lake Theater. www.sfcv.org/events/grand...

Is the OURA name as powerful as the technology? fritinancy.substack.com/p/name-in-th...

Someone on here called Trump Needy Amin and I haven’t enjoyed a Trump dictator epithet as much since The Tangerine Trujillo

"On June 30th, 2026, the President of the United States announced our company. This was news to everyone, including us, because we do not exist. Most companies get founded, then announced. Ours skipped a step. The man has spent his whole life cutting red tape like that." freedomfuelnetwork.lol

What is a “freedom fuel network gas station”? A semi-nationalized corporate entity in service of Great Leader via nationalist propaganda? This is maybe the most bluntly old-school fascist spectacle since the invasion of Minneapolis.

So many Nancy Friedmans. (I'm not the customer service trainer.) intheweights.com/p/nancy-frie...

On taste (good and bad) and taste-washing (@chaykak.bsky.social's coinage). fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th...

OK sure, great, but I don't that helps much. He's 80 years old, woefully out of shape, and probably doesn't even know the rules.

Thread.

"The King of Color," a 2025 documentary about Pantone founder Lawrence Herbert, is now streaming on @kanopy.com. I wrote briefly about the film and at greater length about Pantone's color of the year: fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th...

Trying to be upbeat here! fritinancy.substack.com/p/the-fourth

Not only are the books in the plane’s shelves completely fake, but they also have the same one word title “library” written on them.

Now on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social: TWO PROSECUTORS (2025), a chilling Russian-language film set in Stalin's USSR. Not sure it ever got a U.S. theatrical release; I saw it last year at TIFF. Superbly written, acted, and filmed. www.criterionchannel.com/two-prosecut...

Jim Parkinson, who designed the classic logo lettering for publications like Rolling Stone and The New York Times, and bands like the Doobie Brothers, has died.

Great event last night at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in S.F.: @qhardy.bsky.social interviewed @jsweber.bsky.social about Weber's new book, "City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco." Got to meet @kvox.bsky.social, too! cityontheedgebook.com

ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)

Sweary ceramics. thatsnotmyage.com/inspirationa...

Great American State Fair* thread. *or as I like to think of it: GAS-F

New from me: Our tacky 250th. fritinancy.substack.com/p/our-tacky-...

Really interesting quiz. The questions are more valuable than the results.

AI says I coined and popularized "hustlebro," haha

Great hed.

A little bit obsessed with character names in "Disclosure Day" (and tbh all of Spielberg's films). fritinancy.substack.com/p/character-...

The thrilling, lavish life of a Medium writer.

End of the line. Trump loses. This verdict is final.

Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks, né Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn on June 28, 1926. From the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors: youtu.be/zJn8hu00Gao?...

I know there are tons of things wrong with today's AI industry, but it seems important to separate those from the tech itself, which can do wonderfully cool things like help reveal text from 2,000-year-old books that have been so thoroughly lost that scholars didn't even know of their existence.

"The temperature inside the train station in Nantes, which opened in 2020, was 106 degrees on Wednesday afternoon. (Inside the nearby cathedral, which broke ground in the 1400s, it was 79.)"

I wrote about character names in "Disclosure Day." Gift link: wordworking.medium.com/the-stories-...

Recommended: “Ask E. Jean," the new documentary from Ivy Meeropol about the woman who sued Trump twice—and won twice. I saw it in San Rafael last night; find a screening near you: www.askejeanfilm.com

he doesn’t know passports are given to people who already live here does he

“Although, grammatically speaking, or at least according to The New York Times’s stylebook, he should be referred to as the hot lectern guy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/s...

June link roundup: Fake AI ads, AI "influencers," Claude's declaration of independence, the Bay Area underworld, and more. | ht @ironicsans.com @taffyakner.bsky.social @myl1947.bsky.social @neilserven.bsky.social @404media.co @colindickey.com fritinancy.substack.com/p/june-links...

AI ad with commentary at a bus stop in San Francisco.

'Raise Doubts'??? C'mon, @nytimes.com How about: - 'Show Otherwise' - 'Counter His Claim' - 'Tell Different Story' - 'Prove Claim False' - 'Don't Match Claims' - 'Show Another Lie' [ok, too far.] Etc. Headline gives him 100% underserved benefit of the doubt.

Well played, @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Seen elsewhere: Al Gaeda (ht @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social) Malgae (MAGA + algae) (Funded by) George Sporos (ht @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) The Deflecting Pool www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Who else remembers the (in)famous Tareyton cigarette ad: "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch." Despite protests from self-appointed grammar mavens, the slogan endured from 1963 to 1981. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_Tare...!

The 22nd Amendment (term limits). Catch-22.

"The findings suggest companies are increasingly turning to AI-generated content that purports to show genuine customer experiences while giving no obvious indication that the people featured are not real." - @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Making some small changes. fritinancy.substack.com/p/tiny-changes

This is exactly the kind of brain-breaker @korystamper.bsky.social writes about in her new book, "True Color."

How much does AI love you? A new vanity search engine will tell you your online "weight." "Being in the weights means your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence." techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/i...

Omg

What else would you expect from a company called Greenwater Services? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Mamdani giving a speech at the Knicks victory parade and Obama giving a speech at the opening of his Presidential Library on the same day is the BARBENHEIMER of oratory, it's MAMBAMA

John D. Rockefeller Jr. thought it would be "flamboyant and distasteful" to put his name on the midtown property. He was overruled. fritinancy.substack.com/p/how-rockef...

Cover story, @harpers.bsky.social, July 2026.

"Less ads" "Write Articles" "Handle Marketplace" [sic], [sic], and [sic] $4.20 geddit?

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