Chief Creative Officer, Pace. Author of The Last Great Australian Adventurer. Gravel biking, good books & coffee.
Stowe, Vermont
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So @HostPapa and @Aplus_net and @digital_space
and @Hostopia_Global and any other entity associated with this absolute hosting failure, can you provide a meaningful update now that it's the end of the day?
@Aplus_net Are you going out of business? Increasingly frequent outages, vague customer service responses, virtually no social presence....
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"You can sense the human touch even in the worst or most rushed material. It's a reminder of what we're in the process of losing as technology strives to eliminate not just labor, but thought itself"
@mattzollerseitz on pre-computer animation
Read: rogerebert.com/features/appr…
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The AP -- one of the last remaining news organizations covering the entire world -- is cutting 8% of its staff, two weeks after Election Day:
nytimes.com/2024/11/18/busin…
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
OpenAI has reportedly scheduled meetings next week with Hollywood studios, media executives and talent agencies to form partnerships in the entertainment industry.
They reportedly want to encourage filmmakers to integrate AI into their work.
(bloomberg.com/news/articles/…)
Some parts of the US now see 30% less snow than just 50 years ago, and will see even less in the years ahead.
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As X platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away, writes @gbullard
niemanreports.org/articles/n…
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The temperature in China hit 126 degrees F today (52.2 C.)
That beats the old record by an almost inconceivable 3 F. The world is on fire.
Welcome news for @CelsiusNetwork customers: On 3/27 the State of New York filed a complaint against Alex Mashinsky. "Between 2018 and at least June 2022, Defendant Alex Mashinsky engaged in a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of investors." iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nys…
#TIL today: Aviation #contrails, which can spawn what are essentially artificial cirrus clouds, contribute more to global warming than aviation CO2 emissions from fuel burn. (Overall, aviation causes about 3.4% of anthropogenic warming) Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
True brand values.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵
nytimes.com/2022/09/14/clima…
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As I've said: conspiracy theory is how idiots get to feel like intellectuals.
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How @theverge is taking a stand against companies that obfuscate information & increase distrust of media: "'From now on, the default for communications professionals and people speaking to The Verge in an official capacity will be “on the record.'" theverge.com/press-room/2277…
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“The party’s over. I know it. You know it.”
Aussie billionaire and Fortescue boss Andrew Forrest challenges fossil fuel executives to make the switch to clean energy.
Richard H. Kirk was a pioneer of electronic music through Cabaret Voltaire and his subsequent solo work. Perhaps less well known today than Kraftwerk and other contemporaries but equally influential.
Here's your spot of joy for the day.
With stunning autumn colours around my cabin in the woods of the Yukon, I am forwarding joy, hope and positivity across Canada and beyond.
YouTube: youtu.be/9PaDnnlqOhg
If your kids are discovering early seasons of The Simpsons in cropped 16:9 on Disney Plus, here’s how to watch in the original 4:3 aspect ratio theverge.com/21273476/simpso… via @Verge
