Farm Fresh from Gaza to Tijuana to a town near you: it’s Foucault’s Boomerang!

Jesus wept

You’re far from the only one. Hang in there.

Séamas gave us of the funniest story threads I’ve ever read on that cursed site: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/992006545473966082.html

In their defence, it was a relatively small investment of only $19m. I guess the story is that this must be an indication of how other, larger, investors might also be looking at X.

-imum coolness

It’s a piece of life advice I wished I’d learned earlier because I try to live by it now: the thing people will remember about you is how you made them feel.

This is correct.

Make Nazis Windchimes Again.

It might be getting a second wind now as an escape from Wayland/NVIDIA and death by a thousand snaps. That was why I switched a few months ago; all I wanted was to play ETS2 on my old laptop, dangit.

Sututututu

They are suddenly everywhere in Australia, I can tell you that much.

That is one striking kitteh

Aloha.

You need to make the worst product that you’re still able to sell, and then make sure you sell it to the same people multiple times.

This is a lovely summary of modern capitalism. The carnival barkers would have you still believe that excellence rises to the top, but it doesn’t. What wins is the appearance of excellence, as a facade for the least effort possible, like you said.

Share markets created this perverse incentive that rewards businesses for appearing successful even if they produce fuck all. I’m thinking of Jack Welch era GE or today’s preeminent carbon credit trading firm, Tesla Motors.

It reminds me of the feedback loop engulfing the major LLMs as they consume more and more of their own content and start outputting lower and lower quality: the original goal of rewarding the best is long lost, replaced by making line go up at all costs.

Yes. European. It’s the norm.

Yeah, it’s Danny Duncan.

I think we can all guess the country. I wish you all the best, wakkawakkawakka.

My home feed is extra on the nose today.