Dave Infante

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how compromised is lifestyle journalism these days? well, you see, pr firms are now developing platforms specifically designed to match sellout hacks with hotels happy to put them up, and then *openly pitching that platform* as a neat-o new service.

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luv 2 provide feedback

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Heineken document reveals worries over weight-loss drugs and beer salesHeineken has urged British pubs and bars to adapt to the booming use of weight-loss drugs.

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"Heineken has urged British pubs and bars to adapt to the booming use of weight-loss drugs or risk losing customers and revenue, according to a company presentation seen by Reuters, in a rare acknowledgement from a major alcohol maker that the medicines pose threat to beer sales."

fingers.emailBooze execs are running out of excusesPlus: Cast your vote for The Buzzwords of The Week of Q2 2026!

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This is newsworthy and interesting but it is in no way a "rare" acknowledgement lol. Execs in the global bev-alc c-suite have been banging this drum for literally years at this point.

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Meredith Shiner

@meredithshiner.com

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U.S. outlets simply do not have the courage or competence of Haaretz. I’ll never forget this group of headlines that all ran on Oct. 8-10 2023—within days of the attack on Israel and mentally comparing them to our media post-9/11. Look at that Oct. 8 editorial!!!

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Every one of the Haaretz headlines feels like a warm-up act for the US elections

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mom can you come pick me up they're rebranding "wellness" in the most grating and repulsive manner imaginable

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h/t @kbernot.bsky.social

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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇

@brianvan.bsky.social

How cooked are you when a fuckin brewery cancels your fundraiser? In this economy?

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the official apparel partner of ignoring your disgusting kids as they terrorize everyone else at the brewery while your wife sits in the xc-90 outside googling divorce lawyers

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posted this to fingers' instagram and this one guy did NOT like it

12onyourside.com‘BooFest on Broad’ to debut in Church Hill and close part of the streetA three-block stretch of East Broad Street in Church Hill will close to traffic on Halloween night for the first-ever ‘BooFest on Broad.’

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UPDATE: They put BooFest on Broad on da teevee! Big thanks to @12onyourside.com for spotlighting our neighborhood's efforts to make our streets safer for trick-or-treaters.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com

UPDATE: BooFest 2026 has secured its signed street-closure permit from Richmond Police Department! That was the last major hurdle between us and a car-free Halloween and the East End, and we just cleared it this morning. We're shutting down three blocks of East Broad on October 31st from 4-9pm!

gofundme.comDonate to Support BooFest on Broad!, organized by Katie AmrheinBooFest on Broad is a new Halloween tradition here in Church Hill. A group of your Church … Katie Amrhein needs your support for Support BooFest on Broad!

How dare you call yourself a contemporary speakeasy concept with an elevated menu of farm-to-table shareables

finally, a path to sustainable growth for fingers has revealed itself

gotta spend money to make money

J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈@jaspar.bsky.social

If it’s remotely affordable you have to get it

bookshop.orgBlood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big TechA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, WIRED, and the FINANCIAL TIMES- A NEXT BIG IDEA BOOK CLUB "MUST-READ" The true story of the first machines that came for human jobs--and how the Luddite upris...

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i don't think i would know what to think about the anthropic ipo (which seems to be quite promising financially, based on the folks i follow on here who read s-1s for a living) if i hadn't read 'blood in the machine,' @bcmerchant.bsky.social's excellent book on the luddites.

i can do this all day

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com

lol another guy replied to this trying to argue about copyright law and caught a block. for anybody else tempted: i know llms may be deemed legal, but please try to grasp that a) that doesn't make it not theft & b) people who work on this stuff understand it as theft. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

open.substack.comRisk FactorsWhat Anthropic has to say for itself.

as usual, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social gets it: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/risk-factors

Alex Janevski@alexjanevski.bsky.social

They actually list the fact that it was stolen was one of the risk factors, excerpted here by Hamilton Nolan (last on the list, though they're all quite funny). open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

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Celeste Ng

@pronounced-ing.bsky.social

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Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

the answer is pretty clarifying for thinking about the political power of transformative technology, i think. there are vast fortunes to be made stealing from the workers of the world, and political systems are rarely equipped to stop it even if individual politicians want to (which they rarely do)

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huh, interesting argument, i guess to counter i'd say

idk man. it would have been nice if these companies all just collapsed under the weight of their own ambition and i guess some of them still might but so long as anthropic remains profitable it is doing so on the back of labor it did not pay for and i think that’s bad.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com

but if we're encouraging people to reconsider their priors on ai, i think it would be pretty cool if we could maybe not lose sight of the fact that this technology was willfully built on mass theft. a lot of reporting just kinda takes this as a given and doesn't bother foregrounding it. seems bad!

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the most interesting question for me with ai was never “does this shit work” (though in many cases it seems not to lol) or “can it make money” (though in many cases it seems not to lol) but “why is it allowed to just rip off all our work and then sell it back to us”

but i did, and one of the lessons i took from it was that productivity gains from technology can be real (in the way that they appear to be with claude code, for example) and also degenerative and exploitative at the same time. many such cases!

bloomberg.comAnthropic Raises ConcernsAlso share classes and fake polls.

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"It feels like a lifetime ago, but as recently as 2024, congressional elections were not commodities that traded on regulated US futures exchanges, and the CFTC was trying to keep it that way." — @matt-levine.bsky.social

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Tomás Teepellò

Micro-bleh-stics Spookmelier@eephus.biz

brazillian mayor who shut down his city’s busses to suppress the vote seeing the election results

this is unbearable but my god if lula pulls it out

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social

HAHAHAHAHA EVERYTHING IS GOOD FOREVER BAD THINGS NO LONGER EXIST

@slothropsmap.bsky.social

anybody got recommendations on reliable sources to follow for analysis on the potential annulment

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Nick (derogatory) ✨

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eva

@glorianas.bsky.social

lula

reportersnotebook.orgNorth American Guild of Beer Writers Announces the 2026 Award Winners, Celebrating the Best of Beer and Beverage MediaThe North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) held its 12th annual awards ceremony October 25, celebrating the best of beer and beverage media. This year, the competition consisted of 250 works …

Wow, honored to pick up a bunch of wins at this year's @nagbw.bsky.social awards! And among such talented colleagues, too. Full list:

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2nd Place Blog/Newsletter:

Thanks to these wins, I was awarded 1st runner-up for NAGBW's Winningest Writer of The Year. And my winning columns from @vinepair.com contributed to the publication securing NAGBW's Publisher of The Year award. Very grateful for all the recognition.

Wow, honored to pick up a bunch of wins at this year's @nagbw.bsky.social awards! And among such talented colleagues, too. Full list:

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vinepair.comThe Twin Cities’ Beer Scene Is Showing the Rest of the Industry How to Fight BackWhen I reach Drew Hurst, he’s running late to work. “I’m taking the call from my car right now because there’s an ICE stop on my road on my way in, which, y’know, I pulled over to film,” the president...

1st Place Local Reporting:

vinepair.comThe Beer Industry Is Special. My Dad Taught Me ThatI love beer, and I love covering the beer industry, and those are two different things. I am constantly explaining to people — angry readers, new sources, confused strangers — that while I personally ...

Second Place Personal Essay:

Wow, honored to pick up a bunch of wins at this year's @nagbw.bsky.social awards! And among such talented colleagues, too. Full list:

vinepair.comMaybe People Who Want to 'Save Beer' Should Learn Something About It FirstShortly before a federal judge placed Uncle Nearest, Inc. into receivership last month, he offered a frank assessment of the business acumen of the liquor firm’s husband-and-wife co-founders Fawn and ...

1st Place Commentary or Criticism:

vinepair.comAnheuser-Busch Is Getting the Bigotry It Paid for With Bud Light's UFC DealJune is Pride Month, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the social media feeds or press releases of the country’s biggest beverage-alcohol companies. Less than two years into the second Trump admi...

Honorable mention Commentary or Criticism:

[guy who’s definitely normal and hangs out with other normal people] “the Factory— home of delicious cuisine— “

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

THE FACTORY

why is he dressed like a bartender who exclusively does modern riffs on pre-prohibition classics

nick pants@nickpants.bsky.social

darkwing duck-looking ass RGIII

i know meal team 6 is just a facebook meme to make fun of gun chuds but imagine if it was actually a crack squad of cheesecake factory’s strongest soldiers

journeyman folklorist@aniceburrito.bsky.social

Tangential to the Cheesecake Factory talk is that their workers are genuinely elite tier 1 operators in the food service industry. I have a friend who manages bars and restaurants and he will instantly hire anyone with Cheesecake Factory experience. They are like the Marines minus the war crimes

dinfontay.bigcartel.comDINFONTAYBrowse all products in the DINFONTAY category from DINFONTAY.

[colonel jessup voice] “you want me on that shift. you NEED me on that shift.”

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cindy

@depalmasux.bsky.social

“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

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john m

@murden.bsky.social

If you're here you know already but this adds a lil' bit backstory. Thanks @dinfontay.com! www.chlookout.com/p/church-hil...

obligatory

sold out of the no claudes/no masters stickers for a third time as expected, but still got other great designs available! come get some:

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com

lmao these are going to sell out AGAIN, bluesky LOVES this sticker. six packs left:

dinfontay.bigcartel.comNo Claudes No Masters sticker pack4 stickers to clarify which side you're on in the Slop Wars. Price includes postage in the US. ***This is a pre-order. This design is currently with the printer. Packs will begin mailing out ~2 weeks ...

a win for these workers and maybe an even bigger win for the labor movement writ large

jen ramos-eisen@jenramose.online

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

low info worker genuinely wondering: are unions cool sallow right wing ghoul: no they’re only for fringe losers and grubby commies who can’t hack it. a dozen of the hottest, most accomplished, and culturally mainstream women you’ve ever seen: what did you say bitch

if you’ve ever known the paradigm shift of realizing the swarthy guys at the protest who look like they’d’ve been bullies in high school are union tradesmen who are bullies *for labor*, imagine the influence of women who look like they won every hs popularity contest being card-carrying unionists