Mastodawn

global companies making global announcements reflecting or explicitly referencing the season currently occuring in the temperate band of the nothern hemisphere.

especially product laucnhes or event annoucements.

#gripes

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)9h ago

Misty 10h ago

Maple syrup fraud in the news again https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7149822

Bogus maple syrup from Quebec producer found on grocery store shelves

CBC Lite

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)10h ago

just one more update bro, one more update and it'll be great

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

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Misty 1d ago

@glyph I strongly suspect this limitation only exists because that’s how Twitter worked.

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

Glyph 1d ago

"you can't have a quote-post or a link preview in the same toot as an image" is a baffling design choice on mastodon, I'm looking at a bunch of stuff on bsky that makes very good use of juxtaposition and like… why can't we juxtapose things. that's like half of language

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

💡 a problematic moth on fedi 4d ago

how monday mornings feel like

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

I saw some kind of media politics chattering heads thing recently asking if avi lewis is gonna be a new direction or a throwback to "the seventies", like, do people currently in media /remember/ the 90s?

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a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

It's hard not to interpret as telling what specific things free-for-all automated platforms (your Googles and such) try to get away with not preventing in advance

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

LB: honestly a lot of this sort of moderation-after-the-fact seems to be geared to creating a marketing message that a company opposes the thing it literally enabled and not much more

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwz8051y0lo

'Gruesome' war bets fuel calls for Kalshi Polymarket crackdown

Predictions markets have hosted millions of dollars of bets related to the war in Iran.

a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)1d ago

David Dayen 3d ago

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

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