exciting to see some of the upstart intergovernmental forums staking out strong brands. it’s important to make multilateralism fun for a new generation

“Draconian”?

This all seems fine but my baseline expectation is that I’m gonna see some Roman legionaries casually uppercutted out of frame. It’s a recipe for disappointment

this deserves to be on Mastodon and/or my tombstone https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1621052851211616256

super easy to buy fake license plates on FB marketplace. They’re selling ads for it! Seems like the kind of thing an AG might be interested in

Look, I want to believe in the march of human progress. And I admit that this is still better than the vast majority of “new products” that are actually drop-ship scams repackaging aliexpress housewares. But I now see a lot of companies trying to convince me that “slightly different LED color gradient” is a product (with health benefits?). Also the entire tech industry spent a year loudly announcing that Dark Mode was the best idea they had left. For fucks sake people

Truly a bizarrely written article. Makes me wonder how most people think patents work https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/business/humira-abbvie-monopoly.html

truly an incredible email. imagine a better windup for a "however" graf. you can't

really great #stratechery today, putting the lie to the primary overhiring narrative we're seeing around tech layoffs. Drives home how much commentary on this issue is just people repeating messaging they heard from someplace else https://stratechery.com/2023/tech-layoffs-big-techs-hiring-rates-microsofts-vr-layoffs/