This is what I’ve started thinking over the last few years: with exceptionally rare exceptions, streaming-only movies have absolutely zero cultural impact. The tip 5 streaming release this year are: Damsel Rebel Ridge Axel F The Union Road House How many of those have you even heard of?

Which Movies Actually Popped (and Flopped) on Streaming in 2024? — The Town with Matthew Belloni — Overcast

I’ll tell you what, watching the realtime Bluesky sign ups is impressive. Another million new users today 😱

Bluesky User Counter

This is a really interesting thing I’ve noticed recently as well. Despite Bluesky use counts getting huge boosts every few months, the number of active users is hardly moving, and seems about in line with total active Mastodon users.

Mastodon

Alex Barredo 📉 (@Barredo@mastodon.social)

Attached: 2 images https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats Public data still shows that people hardly stick around (churn is very common in social platform...

Spent last night on the town. #chicago

Substack continues their pull away from the open web

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Substack continues their pull away from the open web

Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Substack Is Giving Out Free Subscriptions to Boost App Installs Publishing platform Substack is now pushing users to i...

On the scent! #dogsofmastodon

My pet peeve is how poorly the Apple press covers contactless payments. It’s always “Home Depot adds Apple Pay support” and it seems a rare exception when they also mention in their post that what actually happened is they enabled the open standard which Apple Pay runs on, so Google, Samsung, PayPal, and a million other wallets all work. I get it, saying “Apple Pay” in a headline on an Apple site makes sense, but reporting is woefully incomplete in the articles themselves.

You’ll all be very proud of me. At work someone was prepping a slide deck and needed some images. They fought with ChatGPT for hours to get something good, but it all looked terrible. They brought me in, I made them some graphics in like 10 minutes that looked so much better, and they were super happy. When it comes to AI-generated images in your presentations, just say no ✌️

They lasered my eyes (or, why I’m so happy I got Lasik, members post)

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They lasered my eyes (or, why I’m so happy I got Lasik, members post)

I got Lasik 2 years ago and here’s how it’s going.