https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/media/the-information-jessica-lessin.html
Maybe Information Actually Doesn’t Want to Be FreeBy Edmund LeeUpdated Feb. 8, 2020, 8:59 a.m. ETJessica Lessin’s online tech publication costs $399 a year and has no ads. Silicon Valley’s elite is eating it up.
― j., Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
heh I remember that valleywag piece
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
I miss valleywag
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
i'm reading bad blood. what a world!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 8 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
turns out a lot of smart people are very dumb!
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
haha i just read that this week. how is it that no one is in jail yet?
also, fuck david boies
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
One likes to think one couldn’t be conned but one probably just hasn’t been a target yet.Also I could definitely be conned I’m very susceptible to salespeople who are ostensibly not outright scamming you.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Literally just wrote a story about how rich people get lesser charges due to filing endless technical appeals. https://t.co/kazZzdQloO https://t.co/c2lFbJt2zE— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) February 12, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
Liz looking more normal-ish there
― mh, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Adam Neumann's for sale apt is kind of a bland mess. That floorplan!
https://ny.curbed.com/2020/2/19/21143697/for-sale-in-nyc-adam-neumann-nyc-manhattan-wework
― Yerac, Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
fits
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 February 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
ffs
I tend to be cynical about the idea of Late Capitalism, but an Uber driver last night told me a story which made my jaw hit the floor.He picked me up, and apologised for the congestion."You see all these cars, though? They're owned by the same person". (1/9)— Imran Khan (@imrankhan) February 19, 2020
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
: o
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
still use DC & Arlington cabs every week, never installed uber or lyft on any of my phonesFuck buying into a scam, even at a 100% discount
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 February 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
this is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heardhttps://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/bumblebee-spaces-modular-housing-furniture-sf-15080191.php
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
let's needlessly increase energy usage in homes with a bunch of hydraulics that can only be operated with your chronically faulty internet-of-things devices! imagine coming home drunk and wanting to pass out and yelling at Siri for 20 minutes to get your bed to come out of the ceiling
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
But with Bumblebee it’s like Marie Kondo lives in my ceiling.
ceiling cat, only Marie Kondo
― mh, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_FUt5S7j0s
― adam, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
oh, what a feeling / when you’re yelling at the ceiling
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
overvalued and unprofitable startups desperately latching onto half-baked ideas for generating revenue: a thread— sir this is a wendy 🌹 (@dellsystem) February 25, 2020
― maura, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
people are ruining the pivot moment, which was supposed to be realizing that you had developed a component that is useful on its own in the quest to create your original product
now it’s just “we can slap ads or loans in”
idk maybe the latter was the real thing and the former kismet
― mh, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
Or, you know, all this shit has just been a fucking obvious bubble to people who know how to read and do math
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
all these companies following ilx's lead. hook about 100 people. Then turn on that ad revenue, baby.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
I feel so old about this stuff. My life is so lo-fi, i just would never be interested in most of these things.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
The Homepolish story linked in that thread is a good one, if you enjoy reading about clueless entitled assholes ruining other people's lives.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:20 (four years ago) link
I am seriously wondering what type of permitting / code compliance issues those things would require ... like, are they gonna fall down in an earthquake? What is the minimum ceiling height they require? What about fire safety ... what is the fire rating of these things? Normally, code stipulates that you can't have storage closer than 18" from the ceiling ... because it's a mechanical device, would it require mechanical permits? ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
"who cares just build it and then worry about that shit later!" = every tech company ever
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
It just seems like something that would be hard to integrate with a bunch of different pre-existing construction types -- like, apartments with 8' or lower ceilings.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
disrupting the building code "industry"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
a ceiling waterbed is actually safer than normal beds in the case of fire
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
there are so many small businesses that are the opposite of tech companies with the attitude of "who cares just build it and then worry about that shit later!" but maybe tech companies tend to grow more quickly, exposing the attitude in more dramatic fashion.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
small businesses would run into the same problems if they were always trying to "scale up" and/or waste other people's money
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
One of the guys from Mad Men had his bungalow featured in Dwell and he had a bed that raised and lowered manually and I thought that was actually pretty cool in a tight space.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
coming out of the floor is very different from coming out of the fucking ceiling
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
This one raised up to the ceiling but it was done with a chain so it had a cool industrial feel
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
lol was this Pete Campbell's place
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
vince kartheiser def the weirdest person on that show
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that guy. Mr. Alexis Bledel
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
wasn’t that house pretty small for a named actor guy? seemed respectable
― mh, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
I'm unwilling to put in effort to find a link that's not the Daily Mailhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712131/Mad-Men-star-sells-cleverly-designed-tiny-bungalow-800-000-including-bed-pulled-ceiling-fire-pit-hidden-inside-coffee-table.html
Super nice, IMO.
The bed pulling into the ceiling isn't a dumb idea at all, if you can make it happen, beats a Murphy bed taking up an entire wall. Hydraulics or whatever are unnecessary (though let's be real about the energy cost of a 10 second raise/lower cycle - if you're living in few square feet you're more than making up for that energy).
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
fewer square feet
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERvx3A1UUAAPQfP?format=jpg&name=small
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:49 (four years ago) link
i like that bungalow (except for the red curtain). I like that the bed is on a pulley system.
Although this is all reminding me of that earthquake proof bed (coffin).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQwB0uCZkc
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
A panic bed.
― nickn, Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
I give myself three nights before I have permanent brain damage from hitting my head on the beam.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 27 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Because I have these thoughts that seem really interesting, but they're not really good for real life.'
very relatable, Vince
― mh, Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
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we're just playing mad libs with these concepts now, right?
― mh, Friday, 28 February 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
👏 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/SSob76cCN4— VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 (@VCBrags) April 4, 2020
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
is that sincere? jesus.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
lololol she went and edited it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link