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Ernie Smith

@ernie.tedium.co

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Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com). See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/ “Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 2d

Great news: Chris was able to get tickets for this. Thanks to everyone who helped!

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 17d

Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters.

One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.

If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

The fact that they kind of backburnered Apple Silicon really upset their best users. Like enterprise cares about collaboration, sure, but I’m a guy who has been paying you $120 per year for a decade. Seems like you might want to be on top of that!

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

I keep seeing an ad for Dropbox featuring Death Cab for Cutie over on LinkedIn. It is perhaps the most me-coded ad I’ve ever seen, because as a middle-aged geriatric millennial, I give a shit about the cloud service Ben Gibbard uses.

Too bad Dropbox screwed it up 5+ years ago.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

Kimmel probably cares about ratings, but a Sunday morning show that would likely be on the air whether or not anyone watches (thanks to the FCC’s public affairs programming rules)? Just pure laziness on Vance’s part.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

Journalists had long been taught to not think about their ratings when reporting. That has changed with the internet, but it is definitely not the focus of a Sunday morning show.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

If you point at ratings, you’re deflecting. And not very well, I might add.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

I gotta add. He tries shutting Stephanopoulos down by pointing at his show’s ratings. I’m sorry, but the fact that you accepted the spot in the first place is a sign that you need to have a presence there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 4h

I like this fresh showing of spine by ABC. More of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 4h

That’s generally what a day atop Hacker News pulls in.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 4h

Our Demento piece got linked on Citizen Free Press, a Drudge-like site, and we got a comically large amount of traffic from it. Like 7,500 visitors in two hours.

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Ten Years Of Tedium @tedium.co · 4d

Find something you love as much as our David Buck loves Dr. Demento, who’s retiring this weekend:

tedium.co/2025/10/07/d...

Dr. Demento at w00tstock with Weird Al

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23h

I can’t think of the last time I saw Slashdot interview someone themselves but I like it.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23h

Slashdot holding Microsoft’s feet to the fire over a controversial face-recognition feature. Whoa. Interesting.

hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23h

Dread is a really terrible accelerant for writer’s block. Ask me how I know.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 23h

This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me

Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23h

I heard Corwood Industries has an octagon for this very purpose

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

we never needed a Joe Rogan Of The Left but maybe we did need a frog

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23h

The $1/month plan is a nice gesture.

Hopeful you get a bunch of people to hop aboard.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
bsky.app/profile/howt...

How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 1d

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

On an unrelated note it's nice to see that the left took back the frog in the span of a week

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Which I think explains why they're really not meeting this moment where we're essentially playing political Calvinball

Dan, Daniel, Danny, Danford, JD, JDF, Hey You! @thisisjdf.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was at one time somewhat on the inside of the Dem consultant world I can tell you this the fundamental problem with Democratic consultants (and I assume GOP consultants too) is that they would rather know why they lost than not have control over why they won.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

I saw a member of Tinariwen faint at a show and that was pretty weird. Bet a fight would be even more notable

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Jandek

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 1d

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

A true Lilith Fight

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

WTF this isn't Silksong

A beautiful scene that isn't a popular video game

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

This is NOT helping my inherent fear of heights

More insane fucking beauty

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Not serene enough. The people who made this should accept my notes on how they can improve it

The most beautiful fucking landscape you've ever seen