Scott Pierce

@goodatbingo.bsky.social

Content Strategy and Content Design. Former Disney, Razorfish, POP, Amazon. Feeder at the information zoo. Nothing to be smug about.

I usually don’t post here, if anywhere, and it’s certainly not my usual area of expertise, and it might even be controversial, but here goes: Stop finding more Jedi survivors. It dilutes the myth and just enables O66 deniers.

Give me suggestions: I’ve started a @letterboxd.social list of movies you can only watch alone. They stood by you on the days you were alone, or sick or both, and there is no way you could replicate the experience in the company of others. All with Werner Herzog notes. boxd.it/TrQgA

Movies to watch by yourself

There is a certain solitude required to truly see a film. Not loneliness, you understand—loneliness is a failure of connection. But solitude is a choice, a deliberate stepping away from the noise of c...

boxd.it

Scoop: Grammarly is facing a class action lawsuit over its AI "expert review" tool, which presented advice from living and dead authors without their consent. Parent company Superhuman pulled the feature earlier today following backlash. by @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

wired.com

Time Travel Movie: Remember, touch nothing. Change nothing. Talk to no one. Even a dropped pencil or a missing cookie could change the course of human history. Living Everyday Life: Nothing I do matters.

International Women's Day came and went, and did anyone call out the US through Daylight Savings Time stole an hour? It’s bad enough the struggle of equal work/equal pay continues, and women here can’t even get a full day?!

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Day 2 of Trump: Fired the TSA chief. Axed the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee. Froze Air Traffic Controller hiring. Dumped 100 top FAA security officers. And now they want you to believe ‘woke’ is the threat to aviation safety?

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

washingtonpost.com

When at Amazon, they had the idea to periodically wave the option to leave over our heads. Disney did a severance program in the same shape. It is always a worse deal, unless you just can’t stand it. But it’s not a safety net in this market. Trump’s buyout is right out of the oligarchy playbook.