#ToddlerSkincare: the ‘dark and exploitative’ world of children’s beauty videos on TikTok Skincare videos are featuring children as young as two, Guardian analysis finds, prompting fears about the industry’s reach and lack of safeguards

JFC........"Children as young as two are appearing in TikTok videos demonstrating their skincare routines".....what are we enabling ffs.......

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

heh

Ancient graffiti reveals scenes of everyday life in Pompeii A growing number of researchers are turning to Pompeii's graffiti to better understand the lives, humor and concerns of ordinary people nearly 2,000 years ago. Spoiler alert: They liked gladiators.

Surprised there were no dick drawings tbh......

www.dw.com/en/ancient-g...

heh

No, it’s not going to be consumer facing.

Yeah, UK and German markets apparently

Wow 😮....didn't take long...

Netflix reported 16% yoy revenue growth to $12.2bn, with the increase attributed to subscriber growth, price increases, and ad revenue growth. Now works with 4,000 advertisers globally, up 70%, and will earn ~$3bn in ad revenue this year.

Bauer Media Group slashes publishing headcount in company-wide restructure Bauer Media Group's realignment of its business is estimated to have impacted up to 30% of publishing group headcount.

Fallout.

Bauer Media Group to cut up to 30% of its publishing employees in Germany and the UK.

Audiences increasingly relying on AI Overviews instead of visiting publisher-owned websites – was cited as the chief reason behind Bauer Media’s realignment.

digiday.com/media/bauer-...

WTAF 😱🤯

www.prophetic.com

Sad start to the day. Thoughts and prayers for my poor banana this morning.

Upstream #234 instruments ⚙️, long time 🕰️, wilding 🌿, newtonian 🍎, red room 🎧.

Every two weeks I write about culture, brands, creativity and technology.

This issue #234 covers:

→ instruments ⚙️
→ long time 🕰️
→ wilding 🌿
→ newton 🍎
→ red room 🎧

Enjoy!

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😢

See the bigger picture.

"It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful"

Kurt Koffka (Gestalt)

Eventually, everything connects.

Monday runday 🏃‍♂️ ⛰️

Sunday runday.

🔥🔥🔥

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

Vincent Van Gogh

“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”

Mary Oliver, Sometimes

Srsly. We need to wake the fuck up.

The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.

Jesus fucking christ....what kind of fucking idiots are we.

www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1...

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

Starting to pile up now......

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Spotify is just completely enshittified now isn't it.

Time to move on. Or go back to basics.

Haven't read the book, the movie is lovely. A super positive, hopeful, gripping tale. He's ace in it too.

Hail Mary (movie) is excellent. Lovely uplifting stuff. More of these positive stories please and thank you.

Upstream #233 maxxing & mogging 🏋, omotenashi 🛎️, stupid 🤡, control 🚦, wolf 🐺

Every two weeks I write about culture, brands, creativity and technology.

This issue #233 covers:

→ maxxing & mogging 🏋
→ omotenashi 🛎️
→ stupid 🤡
→ control 🚦
→ wolf 🐺

Enjoy!

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Concierge Nation: welcome to white-glove America. Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the queue for almost anything

archive.ph/gi8SW

Like, WTF. Jesus. Give it a fucking break for Christ sakes.

There is a special place in hell for people who announce their parent is dying on LinkedIn, and what it teaches them about communications. Ffs. True story.

Adidas…..anyone? Remember??