Notices by Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)

OK, this kind of fucks. Too much personalization is cringe but this is a nice touch from Marriott. And now I shall put on Netflix and sleep.

@phaedral maybe we need to be better and smarter about how we work tho. Because this hasn’t worked. I’m not saying we need to do the autopsy now. I can’t event contemplate it at this point. But we have to reassess our tactics and our leaders if we ever want the work to produce positive results. And that starts by acknowledging that we lost. We lost. And there is no sugar-coating that. Our work was not good enough. Our work was rejected.

Once again: we’re allowed to be fucking heartbroken and angry. I’m not saying that we can be mad forever. I’m saying we’re allowed to be angry and sad today. All this “now it’s time to work” bullshit is just that. Bullshit. People are allowed to feel what they feel. And be fucking honest: the work wasn’t enough this time. At all. At all.

It will never not be funny seeing the non-Atlanta-based CNN anchors attempt to explain metro-Atlanta to the general populous. Like, you have people who you can bring in to explain this to everyone! Like, these people are in the control room in Atlanta! Your network was founded in Altanta!

There are no media people on Mastodon and normally that’s fine but on nights like tonight, it really shows how much we’ve missed as we’ve all had to spread to different platforms.

Apropos of anything else, Montana is really, really beautiful.

It happened. The one rose gold item I don’t covet. In fact, you couldn’t pay me $100,000 to wear this.

Thanks @mmasnick for the push to make this art

@Oshaughnessy I already do. It’s a symptom, not a specific action. It’s an aggregation of dozens of bad actions that will catch up in sentiment, even if it takes time for it to impact profits.

People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave. Until/unless they fully neuter macOS, I’m here for life. And I’ll realistically never use Android. But the next generation of users might use an iPhone, but they also rely on the web and services from other companies. They use Chromebooks. They don’t have a reason to “root” for Apple the same way I did as a kid. And that’s how platforms change and ecosystems fall off. https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/112955398796903001

lol. Only the Humane AI Pin could make the Apple Vision Pro look like a hit https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales

My favorite part of CrowdStrike’s “statement” about the damage they’ve caused is that there is still a free trial signup thing at the bottom of the blog post. I’ve rarely seen a company so bad at reading the room. Never change, CrowdStrike, never change! https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content-update-for-windows-hosts/

I changed my profile photo. I couldn't last with the AI stuff. Changed the photo tho -- LMK if I should go back to the sunglasses photo

Great post from @ernie on what we shouldn't have to do, but given what happened to The Hairpin and TUAW and whatnot, we probably should https://tedium.co/2024/07/10/websites-domains-spam-prevention/

I love to shitpost so I changed my Slack avatar at work. A colleague encouraged me to do it across my socials. So here we are! This is only for the week, provided I don't forget. Remind me if I forget lol

So someone bought the old TUAW domain name. TUAW was a site that I worked at in college, that has been dead for a decade and that I stopped working for 15 years ago. But now my name is bylined on 1500+ articles alongside an AI-generated photo. Revive the old brand. Fine. But leave my name off of it! H/t @gruber

Genuinely, fuck AOL/Yahoo/Apollo Global or whoever for doing this. I don’t care if you want to sell the old brand and IP, sans content. But when the entity that bought the domain reuses the bylines of the original authors, that’s when I’m mad. The site has been dead for a decade. I stopped writing for it 15 years ago. But for better or worse (and I say better), it’ll always be part of my history and “associated” with me. I’m pissed. And the about page brags about how it rewrote our old content!

In honor of Donald Sutherland, I encourage you all to watch the fantastic 1971 neo-noir film, “Klute.” It features an Oscar-winning performance from Jane Fonda (that she totally earned) and is the first of Pakula’s “paranoia trilogy” - but Sutherland’s understated performance is one of my favorites of his. https://letterboxd.com/film/klute/

Prediction: Apple is going to make Apple Intelligence a service. Apple Intelligence+ that they’ll charge $20 a month for enhanced features and whatnot.

Re: the change in ownership of the Mac app Bartender (see last tweet and also this from MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/), I want to be clear that I do NOT blame the original owner Ben for selling his app or for choosing to make or not make a statement. A statement would have been great but honestly, he doesn't owe me that. He doesn't owe any of you that either. The new owners, however, *do* owe their existing and potential new customers a little more transparency than they've offered so far.