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2025-05-15 08:54:00

🍄 You’ll Want To STOP Paying For Milanote After Watching This Video /// Offline Media

I’ve linked out to Garrett and Jordan’s new video podcast a week or two ago, but this time they dive into Kinopio, which is one of my favorite apps (and the sponsor this week over on Foofaraw).

2025-05-15 08:38:00

⭕️ Circle Jerk

Some really fantastic satire here, via friend of the variable Adam over at OMG.LOL.

2025-05-15 08:38:00

🔡 Nebula Sans

A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility in both digital and print applications.

Always a fan of solid, free fonts, but it does feel weird that they found their perfect typeface and then modeled this one on a different typeface…?

2025-05-15 08:36:00

🛢️ Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen /// FT

Anyone who doesn’t go billions blind should read Ed Zitron. For the rest of us, it’s enough to know that OpenAI is spending more private capital than any company in history to build a moat around products it can’t yet monetise. Each fundraising weaponises sunk-cost fallacy among a clique of companies that play the same game.

His video about using pen and paper wasn’t too dissimilar. I really, really dislike him.

2025-05-15 08:34:00

🧊 Twitch streamer Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics /// User Mag

He was detained in Chicago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch.

Fucking bold. And obviously scary—straight out of that Zero Day playbook.

2025-05-15 08:32:00

🏀 Jordan joins NBCs NBA coverage as contributor /// ESPN

Wild and huge get for NBC, but I’m curious how he’ll be used. His history outside of playing basketball: GM and Owner, have not gone terribly well and I’m imagining much of the same as a contributor on TV unless he really leans into the shit-talking, asshole persona.