There are lots of articles about how many billions have been spent on political advertising, but I haven't seen any articles with a breakdown of who is *receiving* those billions. Which corporations stand to profit most from this dynamic?

(This is not the part where you tell me your guesses and theories. I have mine already, thanks.)

Update: macOS 15.1 changed the syntax of the secret "Maybe Later Intensifies" plist file. https://jwz.org/b/ykZU

Every now and then I see a funny meme of Cheeto Mussolini (the fuckdoll and white trash truck ones were pretty good) but then I don't post them because I remember that nobody including me wants to look at his face ever again.

You're welcome.

@virtualbri @mellow

@virtualbri @mellow They didn't like my selfie either https://jwz.org/b/yjkL

@mellow @virtualbri The last time they did this, they did not appreciate my driver's license: https://jwz.org/b/yj-x

@mathowie Minnie Perl

"I can replace you lazy fucks with spicy autocomplete."

If you work at Google and you don't interpret this brag on the earnings call (the *earnings call*) as a personal threat, specifically, "We can juice our quarterly numbers by just firing a quarter of you", you haven't been paying attention.

How's that Return To Office Mandate going?

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If you've noticed that the Mastodon stampede DDoS is back, hammering your servers even though you have applied countermeasures -- that's because they CHANGED THEIR FUCKING USER AGENT for no good reason and without telling anybody.

Ok, yes, technically the plans were on display in a toilet with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

Prepend "^Mastodon\/|" to your regexps.

Sigh.

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Pivot to AI: If you like music even a bit, you might boggle at the idea that people would be happy with a stream of anonymous machine-generated slop. But to the music streaming business, caring which song you're hearing makes you a weird outlier. The vast
https://jwz.org/b/ykbx

Un-permitted vats of lye being stored in the offices of Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen's car dealership is giving strong "Never Trust a Man With a Pig Farm" vibes.

@mvsde Let's Matt and IA fight: https://web.archive.org/web/20241009060219/https://bullenweg.com/
Also it looks like the edit history is still available in the git repo: https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io/deployments

Tesla out here "disrupting" your groundwater with literal AI sludge.

A stream of bright green chemicals leaked from Tesla's Palo Alto campus and flowed into a storm drain and creek, prompting a hazardous cleanup response. The fluorescent fluid was...
https://jwz.org/b/ykbq

It definitely sparks joy that all of the people sharing this post on Facebook are sharing the following:

Stevie Nicks is completely out of fucks:

I fucking hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, "Hey, you know what? I'm Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that's why I have a mask on, asshole."

https://jwz.org/b/ykbc

Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters.

My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

https://jwz.org/b/ykbY

"I'm clicking a cow!"

"I'm clicking a cow!"

Today's phone-based video game:

1: Get election SMS spam
2: Block caller
3: Reply STOP
4: Get "you have been unsubscribed" from a *different phone number*
5: Goto 2, in an attempt to preemptively block their entire network.

My score was around 200 before I gave up.
https://jwz.org/b/yka_