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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • This is the same problem as the videogame industry - a handful of the biggest players are pumping too much money into each movie to be profitable. They are counting on a blockbuster franchise to expand on with a string out series of sequels that never achieve the same level of success as the first one.

    The only difference between movies and videogames is indie game devs are able to show the market is still there but no one wants the product of big hype. Movies don’t have that. There was a time when a streaming service would buy some indie movie but now each one is making their own movies and the potential for new, original ideas is stagnating.






  • And progress without testing it’s resiliency against malicious actors will not last. As much as we hate Trump being elected and staffing clowns in each position, it will test what has been made so far. Row v. Wade, as we now know, should have been stronger. The Voting Rights Act too. The states that required the law to be fair have pulled back the law and reveal little has changed.

    No one likes getting burned but fire is useful for showing us what burns easily and what withstands the heat. We will rebuild stronger and know what works.


  • This is the key to the idea that big tech is turning the world into an authoritarian place, where democracy lives as puppet theater for tech company venture capital, abusing our privacy and relationships to find our biggest fears and motivators. Social media algorithms are built to control people with that information through ads and targeted memes in feeds. Billionaires have figured out how to control the sheep and are fleecing them daily, down to the skin, and the sheep are okay with it because the walls are made of wolves. But the wolves don’t exist. It’s just fear of an uncertain future.


  • “the economy is the best it’s ever been” for whom? I’m broke, worried about making rent and it’s Christmas season. The only thing I have to give is my usual “humbug” attitude as I worry about how I am going to manage after the holidays.

    The economy sucks. Businesses aren’t people. They don’t have to worry about eating. I do. They don’t have to worry about missing a rent payment because they have credit. I don’t have enough. The entire system is rigged and the Democrats keep ignoring us. I hated Harris when she ran for herself but I voted for her because I didn’t want to lose my freedom - but with Dems it’s some other loss of freedom no one talks about or admits exists. We are practically bound to our work, many people us identify as the job we have. “Oh hi Bob, what do you do?” Is boomer code for knowing what kind of respect to give a person. Democrats support losing our identity to the industry that employs us.

    Business centric politics is hurting the people who are making the business run.