Crude but effective

Seeing this always makes me consider carring a pack of stickers on me that say something embarrassing on it

Good point! It’s probably some weird A/B testing.

This is hilarious, why didn’t get just use the many existing original posters?

Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that’s still more money going to “the arts” than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.

That sounds correct to me but I don’t have have enough evidence at present to say for certain

I’d think the data center would win

Matell is a public company but if it were taken private the accountants (or CEO) would still not require a deep knowledge of Barbie family relationships.

One could make the argument that short term gains protect against future downturns, but yes you are exactly correct it’s not any deeper than that.

The job of being a CEO does not even involve an understanding of the product beyond an ability to connect it to future stock speculation.

CEOs have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders. That’s literally it. If “Metaverse” or “AI” makes line go up, they are legally obligated to talk about it.

The actual technology or product has nothing to do with the job of being a CEO the same way Mattel’s accounting department doesn’t need to understand where Skipper fits in the Barbie family tree.

Not officially but this exists: https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader

Love Bandcamp, I just discovered Bandcamp works perfectly with Music Assistant (popular Home Assistant app).

I thought it was just a chromium thing with a big ol delete history button

Tidal is better than Spotify for music enjoyers. The quality is clearly labeled on each track and the UX has a focus on well, music. There aren’t any podcasts or social features and other crap.

The reporters who pretend perfectly functional alternatives to Google don’t exist are the same reporters that call twitter “The Internet” and if they left at all, went to BlueSky.

I turned to Amazon’s chatbot to ask if a particular appliance had a switch or a button because it wasn’t obvious from the photos, and well, it got it wrong.

I honestly have no idea what anyone is actually using these things for.

Thank you I was actually so confused lmao I’m like, are they distributing this ET reel in pieces?

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I’m really glad I did that now

on one hand we should not be ascribing personally to next-word-predictors but on the other it can be pretty entertaining when we do

…Remind me what this “industry” actually produces?