christopher zara 🍸

news director @FastCompany. author UNEDUCATED memoir from @littlebrown

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

Wow, I'm so honored by this!! Thank you @ASJAhq

[ASJA @ASJAhq]

ASJA AWARD WINNER!

Books: Memoir/Autobiography
Winner: Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth by Christopher Zara

Judges: Beautifully written account of navigating life with the stigma of not having a college degree.
https://t.co/Ksbn3rNCHd

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

reboot Network and have Howard Beale say this

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@mcryan09 Hi Ryan, thank you for reading! It's a rapidly changing world. SEO has driven the news business since Google in a lot of ways, but we're entering a new world now with AI platforms that are changing the nature of how people search. Will be interesting to watch

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

The number of active sidewalk shed permits hasn't budged. It's still over 9K, roughly the same number as two summers ago when Get Sheds Down was announced

[Keith Powers @KeithPowersNYC]

Progress. We’re winning the war on the scourge of scaffolding.

Next up, permanent reform.

[Fast Company and Inc. Union @FastCoIncUnion]

We are thrilled to share that 100% @WGAEast union members from @FastCompany + @Inc have signed on to our pattern of demands.

Next stop: bargaining for a fair contract!

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@EJDrexl Oh wow, thank you!

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

This made my day. Thank you!!

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@karenThegreco @PrestonCooper93 👋

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

Fake accounts posing as customer service reps for airlines such as JetBlue are responding to complaints in an attempt to scam disgruntled travelers. https://t.co/GbRKTBYfCI

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

Sandal and clog brand Birkenstock is set to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange in a high-profile IPO. Its share price is set at $46. https://t.co/QuJDmnESKQ

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

For Gen Z, Rare Beauty ranks above Maybelline, L’Oréal, and Fenty Beauty. https://t.co/IOnIfdbPKE

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@lutherlowe Good luck and cheers, Luther

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

An inside look at the design of the X-59, a supersonic jet that defies physics to travel faster than the speed of sound, with barely any sound at all. https://t.co/iL7x6iNr0P

[Lydia Tomkiw @lydiatomkiw]

My first piece of reporting from #Ukraine is out. Listen to the radio piece - plus text and photos - on how Ukrainian Greek Catholics are feeling after the Pope’s recent comments on Russian imperialism https://t.co/4t1XrihHkC

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

Hollywood has decided that the days of cheap streaming are over—unless you’re willing to watch ads, that is. https://t.co/lF4sSaztgc

[Fast Company Live (At SXSW March 8–10!) @FastCompanyLive]

Fun fact: our panel this morning is the first time the CEOs of @TheAcademy, @RecordingAcad, @TheEmmys, @TelevisionAcad, and @TheWing have all been together in person!

This means Fast Company technically has EGOT status now, right?🧐 #FCFestival

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

Looking forward to this!

[All Of It With Alison Stewart @AllOfItWNYC]

Today on All Of It: Host @alisonstewart is back to talk with @robertsietsema about the best lunch spots, Barbara Mensch's latest photo collection, and @legroff's new historical novel. Then, @christopherzara + @ElissaNadworny talk about the value of college.

At noon @WNYC!

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@vivianwmlee So cool, congrats!!

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@sue_ferrara Indeed

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

Well our hotel in Bali shook back and forth pretty good from the earthquake last night. No apparent damage. Staff seems totally unfazed this morning

[christopher zara 🍸 @christopherzara]

@ShaleneGupta thank you! feeling lucky