time and time again people are confused that the content they see is directly related to the people they follow and that they’re absolutely lost navigating the internet without an algorithm force feeding them lowest common denominator dreck
@timgrierson.bsky.social I know you and Will don't choose the ads on the podcast but it was very weird to have the newest episode start with an ad for a concealed carry organization.
don't forget that elmo has been wildly wrong about everything outside his core competencies (which seem to be hyping fan boys to pump his stocks & getting federal funds for SpaceX) for longer than you thought.
the private equity acquisition process where they take out huge loans to buy a company, put those loans on the company’s balance sheet and liquidate the company to pay them off (while looting the assets) should be made illegal
it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it
@davidjroth.bsky.social your description of college as alternating good & bad seasons + having your first experience of being mentally ill away from home for the 1st time hit me too close to home.
Exciting news for golf-abolitionists (@edithcharles.bsky.social I am looking at you), the premier of NSW is turning half of one of the big Sydney golf parks into an actual park
every blue check would spend the rest of their lives giving AI Netflix a prompt like “guy who looks exactly like me wins a series of fights until everyone respects him”
another place to wistfully write about how it would be cool to get the utility of old twitter without the the garbage of new twitter… and the garbage of old twitter.
