Pete
@eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social
Scottish programmer. Not that I mention it on here. Mostly here for bad films and political Posts
Usually, people associate this with Johnson & Johnson because of how they instituted tamper evident seals after someone started putting poison in bottles on shelves. Not even their fault and they worked to fix it like immediately.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterdayI would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it's interesting that not trusting big tech companies to be true to their word is painted as "defector" behavior here. ought we default to believing that the tech industry writ large has our best interests at heart? that honest people rise to the top there? why would a person believe that?
Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 17h agoFirst, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.
Think I might have a rambling bangernomics thread here, while my 20 year old Ford Focus is stuck in the garage with a wiring fault. First observations: - car failing on you is expensive and inconvenient - not having a car when you planned to have one is also e&i
Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf · 22h agoI get this idea, but I’m not sure it’s true, even if you drive to death. Older, cheaper cars are cheaper to insure, and it takes a lot expenses/premature death to cover like the gap from a $15-20k used car to a $60k new car. The depreciation hit is so huge that it’s gotta be cheaper to go junker
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
can I just mention how delighted I am to have found out that the Official Monster Raving Looney Party helped make the pedestrianisation of Carnaby Street happen
The Torment Nexus of UK politics is the Spectator garden party.
Techpriest@techpriest.bsky.social · 2d agoCertain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of
Larkin passim, the purpose of the curriculum is for man to hand on misery to man
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterdayHaving ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?
While I'm staring down the barrel of the Edinburgh Fringe programme, the fact that stand-up comedy doesn't have defined genres is a real problem in finding stuff. Conversely music is divided into thousands of micro genres to enable easy mixing
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · yesterdayTypically good take from Pete. Literary devices or tropes (“this murder mystery exists to explore the world I’ve created”/“this fantastical concept is an allegory”) are interesting. Genres are just a marketing tool, and not a very interesting one.
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Small town terrorized by shark. Media starts giving a lot of airtime to the shark, allowing the shark to explain the logic behind its attacks. Shark becomes popular, and successfully runs for mayor on a platform of "sticking it to the woke anti-shark elite".
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
My theory was always that strict regulation of sports and casino gambling was the load bearing pillar of US equity investment culture
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d agoRobinhood now makes more money from prediction markets than it does from stock trades or crypto. This adds weight to my theory that Bitcoin and crypto has crashed due to competition from Polymarket and Kalshi for the online gambler demographic.
Akerloff en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar... is one of those papers that will change the way you think. Information asymmetry especially important in the information age. Also tied up with the low trust society: if it's easy to lie about your products, it's harder for honestly good products too succeed
The Market for Lemons - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d agoI think it's more a case of a market for lemons; online shopping created an economy in which people are only prepared to pay the lowest prices because they suspect they will only be shipped the lowest quality goods.
If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
One of those Yes Minister irregular adjectives, "uncompromising" means "ignorant, proud of it, and gets shouty when contradicted"
Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇@sashette.bsky.social · 2d agoThey're going with "uncompromising voice" rather than "ignorant bigot" on the BBC.
Newspapers aren't quite dead yet, but fortunately Rod Liddle is.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d agooh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990
Why would someone call themselves a feminist and yet be friends with someone like Liddle?
Alexandra Lanes@ajlanes.bsky.social · 2d agoBecause he's in their "set": journalists, commentators, and campaigners who all know each other, go to the same sorts of events. It's not about opinions, it's about whether you're One of Them or not.
Weirdly enough I know the person who did the wind tunnel test for this and it genuinely was a fancy equivalent of the classic "sticking two balloons up your top" 😌
VELO@velo-velo-velo.bsky.social · 2d agoBra boosters are causing a clothing controversy at the Tour de France Femmes Reports suggest teams are urging the UCI to implement checks for riders illegally 'bra-maxxing' for aero advantage in advance of Tour de France Femmes TT: bit.ly/4ciEwcy
anecdotally, everyone I know who has managed to get an ADHD diagnosis - all of whom have had to scrape the money together to go privately because the waiting list is 18 years or some shit - have found the diagnosis and the meds generally life-changing. huge improvements in quality of life
SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · 3d agocan't stress enough this assault on neurodivergent people is fucking grim because of how difficult it is to get any kind of support if you're an adult. and that's not even including the hoops you have to jump through and frankly how western-centric it all is.
This hour long episode of Mears' TV show, where he builds a canoe, is a hallmark of slow television, and an example of the thing youtube now does so well - letting you sit alongside an expert and a teacher. There's no ticking clock, no invented rush, no talking down to you. youtu.be/ZqmHqrHr8xg?...
Ray Mears' Bushcraft S02E01 - Birchbark Canoe
YouTube video by darkorian
youtu.be
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 2d agowe don't champion Ray Mears enough, as a country
ahh AI Mary is threatening to fire books out of amazon warehouses with trebuchets
KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2d agoGuys I just got this marketing email and I'm scared.
multiple big videos pushed on my homepage about how bad netflix avatar season 2 is. most cursed franchise of all time. its really really really hard to tell a story for babies about a little kid going on adventures and eventually defeating The Emperor. its the hardest thing you can do
truly the thing that stands out with Doom (and Half Life, and Quake, and Marathon, and--) is that we used to let level designers be bastarding little tricksters in a way that even the Good Level Design shooters of the 2010s onwards forgot
nat.@natclayton.bsky.social · 4d agoy'all ever just fucken play.... DOOM (1993)? y'all heard of this??
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
At the Ghost in the Shell panel. Not even the screenwriter and producer have seen Shirow in the flesh. Shirow communicates only by photographing hand written notes and sending jpegs to his editor, who relays info to the staff.
the irony of publishing a report saying these groups are funded by outside actors and misrepresenting themselves as rights groups- right before being blackmailed by an outside actor and saying that these groups are actually rights groups
Valerie.vg (formerly DIYHRT.Market)@valerie.vg · 5d agoSo the key findings of Amnesty's report was that these anti-rights groups have massive funding, that it comes largely from far-right christian groups in the US, and that they're abusing UK charity law to misrepresent themselves as pro-rights organisations.
