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What’s the most NSFW thing you saw someone doing at work and still got away with it? : r/AskReddit. I’m not in a hurry to go to Waffle House.
My latest on Fierce Network: AI looks like magic, but the real trick is infrastructure — AI requires massive investment in cloud infrastructure, skills, and compliance strategies. Enterprises are balancing performance, cost, and risk as they deploy AI across cloud and on-premises environments. Our new Fierce Network Research report covers how successful enterprises are deploying infrastructure for AI. And get the report here.
How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z -- and the Rest of Us
I loved this Ezra Klein interview with Kyla Scanlon, a newsletter writer who focuses on the attention economy. The discussion complements one of my greatest fears about the U.S. (and maybe the whole West) — that the economy, politics and society are now built on attention and virality, rather than things that matter — manufacturing, science, infrastructure, etc. It’s all about the retweets.
We’re doing ok now, coasting on past accomplishments, like wealthy spendthrifts living off the wealth of past generations. But it’s coming apart fast.
Donald Trump is, of course, the ringmaster of this circus.
Crypto is the apotheosis of the U.S. economy built on social media virality. Gilded Age robber barons were monsters, but they built railroads, coal and steel mines and factories. They built urban infrastructure. The U.S economy and society today are built on conspiracy theories and digital beanie babies.
This sounds dire — but we can stop this. People and societies have free will. It’ll take a while to dig out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. I probably won’t live to see the end of this process. But we need to get started.
Mitchellaneous Vol. CIII: Nine things I saw on the Internet
Mel Blanc screaming and yelling in Looney Tunes cartoons
A video of a beautiful cat with big feet.
Me, formerly, but no longer. I have become an early riser. Nowadays, sleeping in for me is 8 o’clock.
Joan Jett, 1986. Photographer: Matthew Rolston
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Rod Serling, recording narration for The Twilight Zone, 1964.Â
I am tempted to buy this pin, but I decided I would not be comfortable wearing it out in public. Still, I laughed when I saw it. Via
Boomer here. Substitute different musician names but otherwise same.