I've heard "Faith" by George Michael (and its covers) in passing probably at least 100 times by now, and still the only two things I recall about it are:

1. Not everybody has a body like George Michael
2. You gotta have faith

And I still have no idea how that first concept ends up getting linked to the second, but I know it somehow does

Dear Paul from twenty-five years ago,

You know Afroman, whose name is synonymous with that one-hit wonder about being high? You won't hear about him for twenty-five years. Then one day he'll suddenly emerge an important USAnian folk hero

And you know that important USAnian folk hero Cesar Chavez? You won't think about him for twenty-five years. Then one day he'll suddenly be revealed as a serial sexual abuser and his name will be tarnished overnight

Also this will happen on the same day

I played basketball with a high school classmate a few years after we graduated. He was muscular but out of shape and overweight, and was hard to recognize.

I just found out that he's now an Instagram fitness influencer with millions (!) of followers.

I'm not crazy about Instagram, but I feel energized knowing he did some serious soul searching in the last years and it seems like things are going well for him after doubling down on his health.

May we all learn to do that better.

Woke up to seeing Kobe's seemingly bulletproof modern scoring record get broken by someone very unexpected.

With the following hints, I still wouldn't have guessed who broke it:

1. Eastern conference (Jalen Brunson?)
2. Also played at the Olympics previously (Jayson Tatum?)
3. Also has a Yoruba last name (Giannis Antetokounmpo?)

Thanks to Bam Adebayo for the inspired performance - feels like the Steph Curry era is over, even if it's not clear what exactly is replacing it.

@laprice Bluesky being a clone of X means it also clones its business model (i.e. none).

I have no worries about Fedi itself, but the combination of...

- Ads and algorithms that Bluesky will inevitably adopt, and
- The one-sided ActivityPub relationship from Bluesky everyone seems to tolerate

...means that a lot of crappy content we enjoyed being without for years will probably find its way onto a bunch of Mastodon instances.

Bluesky's Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO, moving to a position called "Chief Innovation Officer."

Investors are leading the search for a new CEO.

Jay did a superhuman job of creating a sense of FOMO at a time when everyone wanted Twitter but didn't want to be on Twitter, at a time when the technology behind Twitter was basically a commodity.

Commence the inevitable enshittification that will inevitably find its way to Mastodon.