Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine)

Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine)

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sisqo writing the song about how butts are good in thongs: i'm thinking this key change should feel like the end of the world and the birth of a new future

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Pat McAfee shouldn't be on tv every day. He should be the guy from college you assume is dead now when in actuality he just works for his dad and was ordered by a judge to delete his Instagram.

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We live in superlatively stupid times, but the idea that a gambling market is supposed to be predictive of anything is among the lowest lows we've sunk to. These markets skew right because they are right wing and the bettors want right wing outcomes. People always bet on the Patriots in Boston too.

My ex kept her college syllabi and she had one for a class on post-9/11 cinema and I’m curious if it discussed this series at all (despite the first one debuting before 9/11).

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"9/11 reshaped Final Destination by rapidly and irrevocably reconfiguring audience sensitivity and receptivity to certain themes." www.typebarmagazine.com/insecurity-t...

I had never heard of these books and as the essay notes this type of thinking wasn’t necessarily new in far right circles but these books certainly helped play a part in further seeding the soil for mass fantasies of revanchist violence

Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out Now!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social

The books that helped plant the current violent, obscene brand of Christian nationalism in the public consciousness www.typebarmagazine.com/left-behind-...

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I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work. And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Layoffs hit Ghost Of Yotei developer Sucker Punch aftermath.site/sucker-punch-l...

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its very funny that there is now a claim that code is cheap because like.. you're still paying devs and now you're paying Anthropic too if you were a solo dev, code used to be free, you weren't paying yourself, but now you pay Anthropic code is actually more expensive now lol

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Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

This is the type of essay I really love and the type of thing I really wish institutional places with more resources (Atlantic, NYT, even Slate) would do more often yet they don't for some reason. So I had to start a site that talked about this kind of stuff.

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To innovate, a genre known for protagonists escaping reality must begin to think more deeply about what "escape" means and its implications www.typebarmagazine.com/beyond-the-f...

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“We all bet we’d get to destroy the Amazon and workers‘ rights, our shareholders are furious“

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social

Suck ass, The Economist

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Maybe stop bitching about your own little problems for a second and help me find out where my wife hid the goddamn Halloween candy.

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this is happening because big tech customer support basically doesn't exist and desperate people are asking ChatGPT what to do. ChatGPT is sending them to journalists

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In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

404media.coChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support ProblemsBecause big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

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our inboxes are insane places right now

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

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[TRANSLATION: Skydance is doing a soft layoff, before going forward with the formal one.]

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

SKYDANCE IS ALSO INTRODUCING A MANDATORY FIVE-DAY IN-OFFICE POLICY - CNBC

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Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social

The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

“Fixed” games (that is, referees or players acting in the interest of self-enrichment via gambling) are likely already commonplace but they will become harder and harder to hide. Eventually they just won’t!

Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social

The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

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they deserve what they're gonna get from this

Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social

The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

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This is what Love Lies Bleeding got right about the 80s: everything in the 80s wasn’t neon and bright colors and crazy prints. Everything was fucking Brown

Darryl Mott@gamerstavernshow.com

That's the bit everyone gets wrong. They try to look like the 80s/90s and they pick whatever was in fashion or what was on TV show sets at that time. Most people lag about a decade behind whatever the furniture and decor trends are because they only buy stuff when they need to replace them.

Big tech obviously bears a lot of blame for destroying the online writing industry but a lot of publishers didn’t help themselves and don’t help themselves. I literally could not read the article! I got maybe 2 grafs in and browser crashed due to ad load. Oh well.

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ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool