Today's newsletter: there's a new video from 11 days before Alex Pretti was shot to death. Some people refuse to believe it's real. I wrote about why that's going to be a problem moving forward: www.readtpa.com/p/thats-ai-i...
LA skyline from Griffith Observatory
Black and white photo of a schoolhouse
Photo of a schoolhouse in Eastern Washington University #photography #ewu
I made a new version of this old sketch:
31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.
Steam vent photos with clouds overhead
Rocky hill at Devastation Trail
Luau dancers, backlit
Luau dancer, backlit
More photos from Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, and some Luau photos #photography
Flower
Flower on a rock stack
Red Iguana
Flowers in Kīlauea Iki trail and a Red Iguana at the Panaewa Rainforest Zoo #photography
Beach sunset photo, taken from Lava Lava Club
Man surfboarding in front of a cruise ship
Hawaiian coast
Palm tree with sun behind
Coastal photos from Hawai'i, plus a palm tree #photography
Steam vent photos with clouds overhead
Rocky hill
Luau dancers, backlit
Luau dancer, backlit
More photos from Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, and some Luau photos #photography
Flower
Flower on a rock stack
Red iguana
Flowers in Kīlauea Iki trail and a Red Iguana at the Panaewa Rainforest Zoo #photography
Me, to one of my kids, S: "Have you heard about the color survey? It's where someone on the Internet showed different colors to people and asked them to name the color"
S: "Oh cool"
Me, pointing to green spot on rug: "Like what would you call this?"
S: "Alisha"
Me: 🤦
in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:
What surprises you?
FFXIV came well after WoW/EQ and has been doing really well lately. But yes, at least with Live Service games nobody seems to be able to touch Fortnite just yet. Roblox is probably the closest.
Second movers often have the advantage of looking at what isn't working for the market leader. Whether they repeat the same mistakes is another thing altogether.
Plenty of games came after the pioneer and have succeeded - (ubi's own Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed are GTA clones but have found their own niche). Metroidvanias and Roguelikes are entire game categories, Stardew Valley picked up the torch where Harvest Moon arguably fumbled it.
Sun flag looking like it's giving a boat captain a back rub.
Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
Some of my favorite photos I've taken of Toronto 🇨🇦
envoy overloaded
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Is there a concern that subscriptions will increase in price due to general inflation, or are there specific policies (tariffs or otherwise) that will cause subscriptions to increase in price? (applying tariffs/import taxes to foreign software must surely be challenging if not impossible)
dope
You can tell they were editing the guest list up to the last second and hit the idgaf threshold
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