@admitsWrongIfProven @FeralRobots i. knew. it.
It just boggles my mind how much effort is going to be devoted to getting us into deeply felt parasocial relationships with nonhuman artifacts.
is “influencer marketing” unethical? more or less unethical than other forms of advertising? (it strikes me as pretty close to traditional celebrity endorsement advertising, so maybe any critiques apply to that too?)
i mean, it's been in Florida for a while. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/06/miami-climate-change-floods/678718/ ht @susankayequinn @kevinrns
Screenshot of headline from The Atlantic, "Miami Is Entering a State of Unreality"
@artcollisions it does. and it had a mostly storied run prior. maybe Microsoft uncovered some cursed artifact in the seabed beneath Pugent Sound whose cursed energies spread across the metro…
“This is a culture that continues to prioritize profits, push limits, and disregard its workers. A culture where those who speak up are silenced and sidelined while blame is pushed down to the factory floor”
it's become a commonplace to say Boeing went downhill when they moved their headquarters from Seattle. but when you compare their behavior with Microsoft, maybe it's more accurate to say they stuck close to their roots. https://thehill.com/business/4727085-boeing-whistleblower-jim-calhoun-senate-testimony/
I met him once. I have mixed feelings about his views and influence. But he was a gentleman to me.
There's a person running to be my representative in the US House. She'll likely get my vote. Her politics are much closer to mine than the incumbent.
She's running to be my most direct and local contact with the Federal government. She's solicited donations from me a million times. I have yet to encounter an event where I might meet her or hear her speak. Her website solicits money, volunteers. Offers "merch". The relationship already seems to go only one way.
Democrats, remember democracy?
how to persuade the public that Donald Trump is not Johnny Cash.
does a screenreader read what a screenwriter writes?
I'm not sure Google's AI is that into the #indieweb.
A screenshot of a Google query about reply-to in RSS. Google's "AI Overview" includes the following text: "RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, which is a way to share a company's content on other sites. RSS feeds allow customers to receive updates and view content in one place."
best in class has become impossibly bad.
it’s not indentured servitude. it’s cloud-native.
whatever people think of woke and whatnot, i just don’t think climate denialist can be a winning position in Florida going forward. no one thinks the weather and the water temps are not fucked up. it’s not a base DeSantis is catering to, but economic interests, quite the opposite of populism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/15/desantis-florida-storm-floods-rain/
“Outlets such as The New York Times and NPR are doing excellent reporting… but they remain narrowly focused on the ethical lapses of employees rather than the real story, which is the political corruption of employers.”
#JeetHeer asks, why is Jeff Bezos putting the Washington Post under the control of sleaze? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeff-bezos-rupert-murdoch-will-lewis-hacking/
is there joy without arrogance?
what kind of creature is this?
[tech notebook] HTML iconography https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/16/html-iconography/index.html
it was you and me against the world. but then the world won, and it was you and me against each other.
from a really fabulous, read-the-whole-thing essay by @adamkotsko on the increasing illegibility of what passes for capitalism these days. https://itself.blog/2024/06/15/what-is-the-economy-even-for/
Text: Now businesses increasingly take actively customer-hostile actions — locking up products, replacing paper menus with cumbersome QR codes, and of course chronically understaffing everything, which is the root of all of these issues — and insulate themselves from any feedback. This claim may seem paradoxical, since businesses are continually clamoring for a certain type of feedback. I feel like I am asked to rate dozens upon dozens of transactions a day on some kind of five-point scale, and higher-stakes encounters (like medical visits) result in repeated demands to participate in a full-dress, multi-step satisfaction survey. Even the public bathrooms in Chicago Union Station have built-in devices for patrons to register their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the level of cleanliness. Whenever I receive one of these demands, I want to shout in Don Draper style: that’s what the money was for!