Jorge Caballero, MDThe WSJ published a "cOnsErvAtIvE spEEch On cAmpUs Is gEttIng cAncEllEd" article today. I will not link to it, and I normally wouldn't give this bullshit the time of day but this one happens to be about my alma mater, Stanford, so I feel a certain duty to point out the shitty journalism in this article by calling out the fact that the reason the university has an anonymous reporting system for hateful conduct is because there have been several anti-semitic incidents on campus in recent years /1
Neil Lee
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Living the life, one surrealistic episode at a time.
@mimestream Hello! I was wondering if an iOS app is in the cards for Mimestream one day. Possible?
Super Mario Odyssey owners! I’m looking for a few folks willing to do some ballooon world games with my kid (he hides, you find). Any takers?
“The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing. If you look for reasons for why companies do layoffs, the reason is that everybody else is doing it. Layoffs are the result of imitative behavior and are not particularly evidence-based.”
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
John Moltz
RIP Burt Bacharach. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/burt-bacharach-obit-1.6742324?cmp=rss
Legendary composer Burt Bacharach, behind hits like I Say a Little Prayer, dead at 94 | CBC News
Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer and Oscar winner who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of Walk on By, Do You Know the Way to San Jose and dozens of other hits, has died at 94.
Jeffrey LembeckThis post by Mandy Brown is extremely good and I should’ve read it more when I was managing. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/made-it/
Andy BaioYesterday, I saw a tweet from someone trying to find a video of Bill Clinton’s famous “boxers or briefs” MTV interview question from 1994, saying it appeared to be purged from the internet. I dug into it and they seemed to be right! I finally found a copy in the Internet Archive’s vast TV News archive, which is amazing and everyone should know about. https://waxy.org/2023/01/lost-media-finding-bill-clintons-boxers-or-briefs-mtv-moment/
Matthew Haugheyevery tech company cutting 10% of their workforce despite no major declines in profits just because one of their big competitors did it before them has the biggest "skate to where the puck is" vibes
Anyone who relies on “Log in with Twitter” as an authentication method for 3rd party websites should switch sooner than later. At the rate Musk is cutting services, Twitter will end up being a single static webpage filled with the rantings of an idiot