2025-08-10 13:55:00
Friend of the Variable just launched this awesome app that allows you to broadcast your Mac’s audio and people can listen in through the web, Mac app, or iOS app. Pirate radio for the modern age. Go check it out.
2025-08-05 14:15:00
Newell has a growing fleet of yachts as well, including the Oceanco-built Draak (formerly called the Tranquility) and the Rocinante superyacht, built by German yacht-maker Lürssen.
What do you do when you have a whole fleet of yachts? Well you buy a company that makes ’em, of course. Trickle-down economics at work, folks!
2025-08-05 14:03:00
The Trump administration is thinking about scrapping a ban on white asbestos, a material used in roofing, chlorine manufacturing, and more. White asbestos is banned in many countries; exposure to it has been linked to lung cancer and other serious health risks.
Likely more capitulation from this administration to big money donors who want to cut costs at the expense of those without the means to escape a system that attempts to poison them at every turn. But that’s just me speculating…
2025-08-05 14:02:00
Some patients seeking covid vaccinations have now reportedly been turned away, mobile vaccine clinics are being forced to restrict or end operations, and research that could have cured cancer and prevented HIV infections has lost its funding, setting science back decades.
There’s this pattern with these idiots where they tell us how the really feel, we ask them about it, they lie, then they go on following what they told us in the beginning, and we (well not us, but the idiots confirming these nut jobs) are somehow surprised.
2025-08-05 13:59:00
What an amazingly cool typeface. If only I knew how to actually utilize it…
2025-08-05 13:58:00
I firmly believe one could build a very nice business taking 10 percent of subscription revenue for a blogging/newsletter platform, if you could get as nice a roster of popular writers to build on the platform as Substack has. I do not think that’s a $1 billion business, though. And if it were, they should, at this point, be able to get there on their own, without additional funding. They should have achieved profitability lift-off long ago.
I feel like I write ad nauseam about Substack and its poor business models, but here we are again. While I disagree with the “at this point…” thing John is saying—plenty of businesses do multiple rounds of extravagant funding like this (whether a lot of the VC bullshit is a shell game or not is another topic)—but the actual way Substack runs its business and their approach to growth will only lead to their enshittification, which John gets right.