They are plenty of alternatives and allegedly a lot of direct functional competitors in the works from ex employees and other social tech people like the IG founders. Meta is also publically making an IG-branded competitor.

Please don’t link to either of their videos.

Despite rarely getting past the first page,

I think because they were never really cool or countercultural. They certainly may have been counterprogramming, hence the college-rock into alternative “genres,” but the bulk of their awareness and popularity comes from the Out of Time/Automatic for the People MTV video era which was their most “VH1" era, compared to…

Musk told the BBC that he sometimes sleeps in the office at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.

I think you have to be someone who doesn’t know or care enough (like an athlete) or someone that has some sort of stand-up or theater experience to be comfortable. Just reading about what that week is typically like stresses me on behalf of all parties involved. Having some sort of professional reputation to uphold…

Thank you. Every time I make some dig at Shiv it seems like people get oddly defensive. You can like Sarah Snook and still thing Shiv is as bad (or worse, IMO) than the rest of them. She’s (I think?) the youngest and we don’t know much about her pre-WR days (which, isn’t even accurate because she doesn’t even have a…

Nice list. I agree it’s pointless to argue ranking and there are a few subs I would make. I won’t argue that it’s their best song at this point in my life but “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)“ will always be me favorite. Document was the first R.E.M. album that I heard when it came out as…

It’s there at #8

Yeah, this is among the most comical hot takes I’ve ever read. If we’re talking accomplished (among major sports), it’s either Maravich or Shaq (Petit probably next, Burrow TBD). If we’re talking just best in basketball, add Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf to those three. For him to say she’s way more athletic than Burrow—okay,…

She had a modeling agent so she knows how some of this works; it wouldn’t be hard to find a legit top literary agent (I’m sure she’s been bombarded with solicitations). She either already has or could find through her network a proper business manager who could get her into the right situation. She has to do next to…

Way past time. Besides getting judges approved, its a chance to put a young progressive on the national stage. We need a lot more with name recognition.

Misdemeanor, with up to one year. So, no time likely. Fucking crazy.

She was indicted five fucking years ago. The moral of the story remains the same—steal a billion, not a thousand and you’ll have an easier go of it.

If she wrote a book she’d get an eight-figure advance tomorrow for sure. She doesn’t have to be smart, there would be an industry built up around her to profit. Ivana was famous a long time ago and the media and celebrity business landscape is completely different. She also was (maybe?) or was trying to be a serious…

Ew, but, seriously, there would be.

She’d be just fine. Whether from the marriage, the line of people waiting to grift for her, or, most likely, a billionaire in waiting.

The eventual look-back on the streaming wars is going to be wild.

I think Cam may have gotten stirred in a way that scared him into denying something that hadn’t been accused.

Yeah, I’m glad the author pointed this out. He shouldn’t have been, but he definitely was homophobically clowned and accused of being gay directly, as recently as a few years ago so he’s just perpetuating the same shit. I don’t know why one would be expecting anything mature or enlightened from him but still…