We must create the shit machine
The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE BENEFITS FOR HUMANKIND, such as:
Business things Other stuff WE MUST CREATE IT
Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER.
— Pete Reynolds www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/…
Worst guard dog
Security cameras captured a man breaking in to a San Diego home, where he took off his shirt and fixed himself a snack. Nash, the family golden retriever, sprang into action, bringing the intruder a toy to try to induce the man to play. www.nbcsandiego.com/video/vid…
When police arrived on the scene, guns drawn, Nash brought them a toy too.
Later, Nash demanded bellyrubs from a TV news reporter.
Nash is the best.
I’m on my way home from my latest business trip. The pilot just got on the loudspeaker to say we’re 40 minutes to touchdown.
I don’t think they should be playing Madden up there. They should be concentrating on flying the plane.
My top three pieces of advice to PR people are: Get to the point, get to the point, get to the point
After more than two years at Fierce Network, my email address has finally gotten out to the directories that PR agencies buy, and I’m now getting literally dozens of pitches a day. Many of them are outrageously offtarget – I seem to have gotten on lists for healthcare, for job-hunting advice, and I get a small flow of emails from someone pitching interviews with a guy who claims to have resolved the apparent discrepancies between science and all the world’s religions.
I don’t even look at the bodies of my emails anymore. I just look at the subject lines and senders. If neither of those catch my eye, I’m moving on.
I’m not saying this to complain. I have a great job. When I see my colleagues complaining on LinkedIn about PR people, I cringe so hard I strain a muscle. Literally billions of people in the world would gladly change places with any one of us.
I’m just saying that if you’re a PR person pitching me – or any journalist or analyst – get to the point, get to the point, get to the point.
PS Religion and science cannot be reconciled, but they are complementary. Faith is belief in the absence of evidence. Faith and science solve different problems.
As for reconciling the different religions of the world: As a species, we’ve been fighting wars over that for at least 4,000 years. Maybe you can solve that problem, but I doubt it.
AI agent governance is having its OpenStack moment. Everyone agrees AI agents need guardrails. No one agrees whose. Apelogic’s Boris Renski sees cloud history repeating itself. My latest on Fierce Network.
A coffeeshop owner used AI to make posters and started getting angry DMs and threats. “There is a real person behind this small business. I am doing my best to run a local coffee shop, support my team, serve our community, and navigate being a new mom at the same time.”