Jason Damas
@labelscar.bsky.social
Digital marketer, former gotcha journalist and record store employee. Love indie rock, gin martinis, urban planning. Opinions are my own. 📍Los Angeles | 🏳️🌈
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
Going on record to say that for any company in America given the choice between 1. AI productivity gains mean our 10,000 employees can work 4 days a week. 2. AI productivity gains mean we can layoff 2,000 employees and have 8,000 people work 5 days a week. None will choose option (1).
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4d agoMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
This is a wildly under appreciated point: social security taxes cap out at a very low rate, meaning low and middle income earners pay much more into the system than the highest earners. If SS taxed all income, most of its problems would go away
Sandieglo@sandieglo.bsky.social · 6d ago
"Weeds" had a very steep drop-off -- Basically anything after they left Agrestic is rough, but it falls off a cliff after they leave Del Mar
Nev Fountain@nevfountain.bsky.social · last wk.What TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good?
there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last wk.New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
esquire.com
You could explain existentialism to somebody, or you could just have them walk into a CVS where “more than this“ by Roxy Music is playing 
Funny to see the fierce divisions between Swiftie boys and Carly Rae boys under the "Friends are Listening To" section of Apple Music right now
An obvious villain who isn’t vilified nearly enough by the opposition or the press and this is what happens.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2w ago“Elon Musk is now in charge of the future of warfare. That’s a massive, massive, massive concern,” one commenter wrote on X.
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
"San Franciscans are just a vote away from sending the state’s most relentless and effective legislator to Washington to zero in on universal healthcare, humane immigration policies, protections for the LGBTQ community and preserving democracy from President Donald Trump."
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2w agoAbsolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Canada is maybe the best country. I love Canada so much that when I listen to Sloan I don’t even skip the drummer’s songs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on Canada: "They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world"
Here is Beshear's complete answer. He's in charge of a state that went for Trump by 31 pts. No one goes under the bus.
VoteHub@votehub.com · 2w agoNEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
apricitas.io
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
sfchronicle.com
That's the kind of special interest rabbit hole I really love. Something more obvious catches your interest (the strip) and somehow your love for it takes you on increasingly niche adventures (historical societies, local arts) until you find yourself at a Mexican rockabilly party in parking lot.
New playlist THE BEST OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY 1987-1992 Sincere, mature, and dramatic songs about love A nearly extinct style of music, people are too cynical now 💝 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5S5... ❤️ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ❤️🩹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Astounding to me any rock critic ever thought this album was bad. We could've had at least another decade of stuff like this if they didn't fuck with Rivers' head by hunting around for a single. Anyways it's not possible to find a riskier guitar solo on a pop record than the one in The Good Life.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 3w ago‘Pinkerton’ came out 30 years ago today. 💿 What’s your favorite track?
every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoHannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
nytimes.com
yeah the 'main' antagonist (Sean Penn/Christmas adventurers) are kinda a bizarre cartoon characters but all the secondary ones (all the paramilitary agents) that he leads are played straight and serious as a heart attack and it really balances out very well.
an actual potato@an-actual-potato.bsky.social · 4w agoA thing I really admired about that film is how it's sort of two wrapped in one. You have a mostly very funny, slapstick stoner comedy alla The Big Lebowski whenever DiCaprio is on screen and then a hard eyed thriller when Infiniti is on. It allows what is ultimately a very serious film to breathe
"Weird" was OK, but I really wish someone would call Republican voters what they are: Suckers. These are dumb rubes who fall for the wallet inspector routine over and over again. They spend their last pennies on magic beans because are in the constant thrall of some grifter. Be meaner to them.
Sam Minter@abulsme.com · 4w agoThis is why “weird” was working in the first part of the 2024 campaign and I was dumbfounded when they made Walz stop.
Do you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis? Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...
