2025-01-19 05:06:00
Another amazing music video from OK Go. All I could do while watching this was think about how much planning went into it. I feel like it’s been awhile, but I was just thinking about them a couple weeks ago.
2025-01-18 12:38:00
Kindness is the reason why I’m doing this. There’s no other reason. I don’t care about getting a reward. I care about showing people that in this stupid transactional world, we can still be kind to one another. We can still help someone, even if we’ll get nothing in return.
Another great note from Manu, but I think he misses that it should be fun. Sure, we can be, and should be, kind without expecting anything in return, but we should have fun while doing it.
2025-01-18 12:33:00
Just some cool news from the end of last year you may have missed.
2025-01-18 12:25:00
I’m a big fan of Alex Wagner and her measured approach—although I don’t watch MSNBC—so it’s a bit of a bummer they need to keep dragging Maddow in, but hopefully Wagner can find a stride hitting the streets like she did on The Circus.
2025-01-18 12:21:00
Until recently, most WNBA players spent the offseason playing in overseas leagues, where money flowed freely. But for a mess of geopolitical and financial reasons, good opportunities in Europe and Asia are harder to find these days.
Ideally, more money would come out of the NBA side of things, since they share a TV deal, so the women could be paid more, especially as their ratings go up and the men’s go down.
2025-01-18 12:18:00
My hope is that this decision along with their other decision to start populating timelines with AI-generated content—as if that’s the point of a social media platform—will help more people realise that it’s time to abandon these digital cancers and get back to a more sane way to interact with the web and to connect with others.
I share Manu’s hope. My struggle is knowing where to point to, or even go myself, for “better” social media. I prefer Mastodon, but Bluesky has the momentum, and wish I could stand up a forum people would actually use.
When it comes to the actual changes Meta is going through—it’s a disaster that shouldn’t surprise anyone.