100% Fun

burning inside

[Backstage @Backstagebs1]

The fact that “Baba O’Reilly” was created by a simple switch on an analog organ is just so fucking cool.

always assumed it was a synth patch. Human creativity and analog gear will always remain undefeated

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @taste_of_tbone]

You’d think you’d hear from people who have been to no-phones concerts explaining that it’s fine and makes the show better. Unfortunately, every single one of them died of medical complications mid-show or was kidnapped

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

You pull up to a massive corporate logo like Circle K, expecting accountability.

Instead, drivers in Spring Branch, TX pumped water-logged fuel straight into their tanks and watched their engines completely die a mile down the road.

One Uber driver lost his entire livelihood to a ruined motor. But when the victims demanded answers, the multi-billion-dollar brand pulled the ultimate disappearing act.

Corporate immediately washed their hands of it, hiding behind the excuse that this specific location is an "independently owned and operated" franchise.

Weeks later, the owners and insurance companies are completely ghosting the victims, leaving regular people to foot thousands in repair bills.

The corporate shield is a trap. They want your money, but the second their infrastructure breaks your property, you're on your own.
​🎥: FOX 26 Houston

[100% Fun @ov2minds]

@NotThatTomGreen Totally agree. Now that they've proven they can do it, they need to channel that energy into the go-home shows.

[Tim Buckley @TimBuckleyWX]

Each red dot indicates a home that has fallen into the Atlantic Ocean since September in Buxton, NC.

Alarming rate to say the least.

[100% Fun @ov2minds]

@CashWheelerFTR @McGuinnessNigel @RJCity1 SIR CASH now wears a fur-trimmed floor-length cape and occasionally forgets it’s behind him.

Stoke: “I saw the vision.”

Dax: “WHO ELSE KNEW ABOUT THIS?!”

@McGuinnessNigel: “The curtsy has improved.”

@CashWheelerFTR (preening): “God save the KING.”

[100% Fun @ov2minds]

Another path to increasing FTR’s value:

Stoke discovers @CashWheelerFTR’s noble lineage and rebrands him as SIR CASH.

Cash fully commits:
“At your service, m’lady.”
“Good morrow.”

No explanation.

Dax loses his mind weekly.
@McGuinnessNigel sells it.
@RJCity1 work your magic.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

"Dreaming of the Blue Tiger" by Jester Pepita

[Perfume Genius @perfumegenius]

On a season of Project Runway one prize for the winner was “the opportunity to design an accessory for Red Robin servers.” The opportunity… not even a sure thing. I think about it sometimes

[Katherine Dee 🐬/acc @default_friend]

Fandom is the organizing principle of the Internet

[Gwen ☕ @GwenpostingTTV]

Saw a reddit post that was like "so there's theoretically no solution to the fact that all prices are getting more expensive, is the plan for everybody to be below the poverty line?"

yeah man. that's literally the plan.

[Costa Kapothanasis @CostaKapo]

“We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.”

Internal AutoZone Memo

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

The culprit isn’t marketing firms, but the surveillance algorithms that breed them. SEO exists because Google gamifies search.

Attention capture is the profit motive. Deviation - the spark of culture - is antithetical to it. You can’t explore if you’re being herded into a silo.

[Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr]

woo buddy, it’s grim

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Sean Burns @SeanMBurns]

RIP to the great Clarence Carter. Here’s what William Friedkin told me at the Harvard Film Archive in 2014 when I asked him about ending KILLER JOE with “Strokin’.”

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Larry David fighting to not break character while JB Smoove improvs 😂 the best

[100% Fun @ov2minds]

@GoodMicWork https://t.co/9JguaHx2zM

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

The most honest conversation I ever had was a 67 year old cab driver at 2am.

He said: "I worked my whole life so my kids wouldn't have to do what I did. They're doing worse."

Then we just sat in silence for like 6 blocks.

Some truths don't need a response.

[Jennifer Berkshire @BisforBerkshire]

Among the 20K workers Citi is firing: “A.I. Champions and Accelerators” who perform their dayjob while trying to convince their coworkers to adopt AI