The reason the top 5 companies in the S&P 500 are all tech companies is because institutional investors are betting on a future where we own nothing, and rent or stream or scroll everything. Careening toward a post-objects future because the software margins were too damn good.
Everyone posting on Instagram about the economic blackout is acting like eyeballs don’t get bought and sold too. It’s not right, but it’s happening every microsecond of every day until you log off (he posts on the site formerly known as Twitter).
My band imploded, I went through an S-4 and S-1 at work, and Leon the Lobster just joined the great blue beyond. 2025 is the year I finally go feral and I’m so sorry to everyone!!!
I love the salvage and surplus grocery. Everything there is on the bleeding edge of industrial food innovation. Too radical for a mass market palette, but some freaky “Director of R&D” or “VP, Product” dared to try anyway. It’s a museum documenting where audacity has failed.
I'm curious about:
1) Was the Rick a conscious decision, or just what he started playing with and it stuck?
2) Was he aware that so many shows were being recorded? Did he have any hand in the Fugazi live series?
3) Favorite memory of Vic Chesnutt?