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(via In the studio with Jenn Graves)

#art #print #jenn graves #letterpress

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We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information. Finding unbiased and independent product reviews, expert tech support, and all manner of helpful advice will now resemble the process by which one now searches for illegal sports streams or pirated journal articles. The decades of real human conversation hosted at places like Reddit will prove useful training material for the mindless bots and deceptive marketers that replace it.

The Last Page Of The Internet | Defector

#alex pareene #reddit #the internet

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(via A History of Love Stamps - The Portland Stamp Company)

#stamps #love #design

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We do NOT use a tip credit at Pecking House. If we do not take a tip credit that means we pay every employee at least $15/hour. We then pool the tips and divide them among the entire hourly staff, including all back-of-house employees. This helps to foster an equitable team culture where everyone feels they are participating in the restaurant's success.

I'm surprised that this is unique. I thought this was how it worked at every restaurant.

#tipping #restaurants #pecking house #service jobs

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I always say God didn’t let me have children so that all kids could be mine.

Country Music's Hottest Momma Dolly Parton Says She Has No Regrets Over Her Decision Not To Have Children

#dolly parton #children

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There’s room for everyone; talent inspires and fosters success...

Even if you’re talented, you need someone to believe in you.

...greatness needs a family or a community to survive

I love The Bear.

#the bear #carmy #being great

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"Man, I didn't do what you guys did." He said, "But I was there in heart and soul to support what you did. I feel it's only fair that you guys go on and have your statues built there, and I would like to have a blank spot there and have a commemorative plaque stating that I was in that spot. But anyone that comes thereafter from around the world and going to San Jose State that support the movement, what you guys had in '68, they could stand in my spot and take the picture."

The White Man in the Photo of the Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics

#peter norman #1968 olympics #john carlos #tommie smith #black power #allies

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If you want to sell music, you must love those songs. If you want to succeed in journalism, you must love those newspapers. If you want to succeed in movies, you must love the cinema.

How to Revive Barnes & Noble: Get a CEO Who Loves Books

#business #sales #authenticity

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Zoom out: Many technologies, from the opera houses of the 19th century through the theme parks of the 20th and the high-tech nightclubs of the 21st, have proved their staying power in terms of being able to attract crowds of people willing to pay good money for a transporting collective experience.

In each case, the art of storytelling has had to be reinvented for the new medium. Drops, whether they occur on roller coasters or in techno music, are a key narrative technique that require just the right amount of buildup.

When a technology is too new, or scarce, or expensive, it becomes inaccessible to most creators and tends to become bombastic and unpleasantly overwhelming.

The bottom line: "The most effective way to sustain neurologic immersion is story structure," says Paul Zak, a Claremont professor who has studied the effect of immersive experiences on the brain.

All too often, that's an afterthought.

#felix salmon #narratives #storytelling #experiences

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“I think what I respect the most about Meg White is that it just doesn’t seem like she has any interest in whether you or I or anyone else understands her at all. She really does walk to the beat of her own drum. And doing that in life in general is difficult. But doing it when you have been as famous as she has, and have gotten used to people telling you how great you are—it’s just very hard to walk away from that.”

Lizzy Goodman, Meg White on The White Stripes, Fame, and Anxiety

#white stripes #meg white

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(via Twitter)

#guns #UNC

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“I think they felt like I was being standoffish,” Lyons says of her co-stars. “They are younger than I am. They have a sense of abandon that I don’t have. And I can’t create that. I’ve spent so much time trying to be a boss, to be professional, to be thoughtful about the words that come out of my mouth.”

#jenna lyons #j crew #real housewives

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There is a lot of untapped potential in the canned bean, argues Albala, recalling a conversation with Bush’s Baked Beans, which has a few offerings with flavors like “Southwest Zest,” and “Chili Magic,” bringing to mind barbecues, and the original “Baked Beans,” and “Grillin’ Beans,” doused in sugary sauces. “I was like, why don’t you try a different species of bean? Do an Indian dal, do a Swedish brown bean, do an African bean?”

I love a bean. I'm in a bean club.

#beans #food

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I miss the old Deadspin. Mostly I kind of miss the life I used to have when the old Deadspin existed. It was different, not better, but I miss it still.

#deadspin #defector #media

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When I asked her what the women thought after the men stepped into the organizing spotlight, my mother smiled like she was gone to another time. She said they didn’t mind moving in the shadows for that brief period once a year. “Holding them up was holding us up too,” she said.

#juneteenth #lubbock

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If Twitter is a private company and you own almost all of the equity, you are mainly exposed to its cash flows, not the meme potential of its stock. If you take it public and sell a bunch of stock to your ardent fans, the business results matter less, and your ability to attract attention matters more. Surely, given the facts here, that increases the valuation?

#matt levine #twitter #finance

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Spoke to my wife while twitter was down. She seems nice. A nurse apparently

Raheel on Twitter: "Spoke to my wife while twitter was down. She seems nice. A nurse apparently" / Twitter

#humor #being online #too online