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Living the life, one surrealistic episode at a time.

@karenmcgrane LinkedIn: Humblebrags as a Service.

It’s like someone scraped the Google results for:

“thought leadership” “recruiter”

… jammed some ads in and called it a day.

The 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
@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?
@saila I see you were an acolyte of Video Hits, too.

“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.

Stanford News
Enjoying this round of socially responsible layoffs.
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.

CBC
The End of the McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology (1968 – 2023)

McLuhan Galaxy
This post by Mandy Brown is extremely good and I should’ve read it more when I was managing. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/made-it/
Made it | everything changes

Making time for humans.

everything changes