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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 2d

people get the idea of borrowing for *startup capital* and temporarily showing bottom-line losses. the idea that there is just a giant money spigot that covers *every unit you sell* being at a loss for years, that's something else

turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 2d

no other business most people know works like that! your local barber or mechanic or lawyer is not financing their business on debt for customer acquisition. the closest, I guess, would be something like being a landlord, where low interest rates allow you to scale to owning more units

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 2d

it really is counterintuitive for the average schmo.

they can understand a story of "the business's costs went up so they had to raise prices", but "the business was being run at a loss for years but then loans got expensive so they couldn't anymore and raised prices" is too heavy a lift

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

understanding why burrito taxis seemed to suddenly get so expensive requires you to understand ZIRP and the debt-financed structure of the modern tech economy, which is extremely annoying and frustrating when all you want is a burrito

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 3d

hey sally, what's the term for the equivalent of a circle jerk when it's women doing it?

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 3d

the joke here is that it's arguably jenkins herself, more than anyone else on the planet, who played up the tech billionaire myth of SF as a lawless hellscape. it worked very much to her benefit, except now she's finding out what happens when you ride that tiger just to get elected DA

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 3d

we're all trying to find the lady who did this

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d

but they *are* saying that! they are affirmatively putting it into the rulings that they *do* add some explanation to that they consider even the shadow docket to be precedent! maybe they aren't hitting them over the head with it explicitly in *every single* one, but it's in the record!

turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d

except they think the shadow docket *is* precedent and are trying to cow the rest of the judiciary into treating it as such!! that is how far gone these scumbags are now!

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 6d

the assignment editor has an unbelievable amount of power, especially these days; they have trained readers and viewers to think that just asking the question is, if anything, a more important guide to the truth than the interviewee's actual answer

turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 7d

and even if you *do* argue against your values a lot of viewers *still* get the impression that the false accusation is true, anyway, because if it weren't, why would they be asking you about it and why would you be denying it?

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7d

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 7d

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 7d

also kind of says something about parasocial relationships. most of these people would still be repulsed by the idea of reanimating their dead grandmother to rehash those memories, but celebrities aren't "real" in the same sense their family and friends are - they are just comforting objects

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 7d

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 7d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 8d

the domination of management culture by MBA yes-men also amplifies this like 5x. on the rare occasion that someone builds a new thing that is actually innovative, useful, and lucrative, they all start racing to be a part of it because it also inevitably means that something unsexy will get killed

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

not on ESPN or ESPN radio, but it's still a top 10 sports podcast in terms of listenership

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

it's no longer as good at that as it was 10-20 years ago (being heavily financially dependent on their relationship with draftkings surely doesn't help) but it still has its moments

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

tasca barea if you like tiny neighborhood bars with pintxos. bar cruz if you like eating razor clams and guzzling beer while the place roars around you

turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

the thing is, most software cos are run by the people who do that the *least*. the user-facing people have no power - they're meat shields used by developers and executives who find users repellent on a deeper psychological level than what would result from actual experience with them

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

also the management of many companies is in love with finding easy ways to grift the users rather than doing the much much harder work of turning the ocean liner around and getting the whole organization to create a better user experience

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

because users are people and people are messy, unpredictable, often irrational, and sometimes downright dumb. they make the engineers' job harder than they think it has to be in about a thousand different ways, and it's hard to find a critical mass of engineers who can put their egos aside over it

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 9d

what if tim pool took off that stupid beanie

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d

that many bylines on a story like this is usually the result of only two scenarios:

-the main reporter was in a time crunch and had to have her colleagues do the actual interviews of sources
-the original draft was hot garbage so bad that it could only be salvaged by a cleanup committee

turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d

by the logic of this story, OPB.org should also prominently feature all of the critical comments about anyone who produced this piece and publicly engage with their points about why those people should be canned.

they have zero knowledge of OPB's inner workings but that doesn't matter, does it?

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d

the point is that if they are doing 95+% of the heavy lifting (and they are), it's hilarious just to view the whole enterprise like in your original screenshot, where TS has an "artistry" that could be ruined by not, like, absorbing enough godard or buñuel. it's a capitalism-optimized machine lol

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d

if you don't write any of the harmony/form, don't do any of the drum programming/arranging/production, and lightly edit melodies that others have already suggested for you as part of their intensive role in the song's creation, you're not "writing music," you're a very, very successful poet

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d

funnily enough beato himself discusses then construction of this exact song here around the 4:00 mark

youtu.be/DxrwjJHXPlQ?...

NYT Says Taylor Swift Is Bigger Than The Beatles!? WTF

YouTube video by Rick Beato

youtu.be

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turnerator.bsky.social @turnerator.bsky.social · 11d

if you're talking about the voice memo for "cardigan" she absolutely didn't compose or produce any of the backing track in the memo; those had likely been sent to her by dessner to start with. plausible that she wrote at least some of the melody/lyrics but dessner is hardly a disinterested source

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