John Lagomarsino
John Lagomarsino
@johnlago.com
Co-host of @underunderstood.com. Product at Spotify for Creators. Previously: The Verge, Mic, The Outline.
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Now that this is happening, news outlets need to stand up policies that state they won't participate in these embargoes. It's ghoulish.
Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.
The Wikipedia article for TCBY is full of surprises en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCBY
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Replying to @scalzi.com
This is where I YET AGAIN encourage people, especially creators, to have, develop and actively maintain their own websites where people can find you, away from the social media sites you don't own and/or can't control and/or whose discoverability algorithms are at the whim of billionaire weirdos.
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Nintendo Confirms that Mailman Dragonite would be my friend (Source: tinyurl.com/yhtxf78z)
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I was curious about the song in the New Era "I am what I am" commercial that's been airing during baseball. (youtu.be/HKV71Sq_X38) Incredibly, it's an interpolation of this number written by Harry Nilsson for "Popeye" (1980). youtu.be/qhxDQ1g964U
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In case you missed it last night, I dug into Will Smith's "fake AI crowd" video. Nearly everyone got this wrong, and the evidence was easy to find… if you're sick enough to watch everything Will Smith posted on social media in the last four months.
You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself.
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@jasonsheridan.bsky.social Re: seeing characters at lunch, here’s Comic Con Batman eating pizza
Whatever they offer you, don’t feed the plants! www.theverge.com/news/627566/...
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Here is a Christmas gift months in the making: an RF rip of the greatest magic special in history. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet, never released on home video, sourced from an internal HBO Production tape sourced by @pulsingcinema.bsky.social: archive.org/details/rick...
I have an even rarer tape transfer queued up for next week. :)
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Replying to @emilyliu.me
as of this week, when you verify your account by updating your username from a default like emily.bsky.social to your website @emilyliu.me, your former bsky.social username is reserved for you automatically (and prevents impersonators from claiming it). you can revert back to it at anytime
I sort of understand NYT wanting the archive removed from this site, but the rest of this is pretty rich, considering Connections is just a straight-ahead clone of a game from the British game show Only Connect. www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/2...
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@pfrazee.com I'm sure this is like absolutely the least important thing to you all right now, but the "System" font setting is a great option! Unfortunately it still uses a 0.25 letter spacing, so it doesn't actually feel totally native, at least on Mac/iOS.
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Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data! Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters. bsky.social/about/blog/0...