"Can you ironically use Halo fancams to inspire a draft? Can you entertain your CHUD followers with fashwave Agartha edits when gas is $10 a gallon?" www.garbageday.email/p/waging-war... @bumas.bsky.social @garbageday.email
"Remember, the internet is not inherently worse than it was in the before times, it’s just that a cabal of ultra-wealthy oligarchs convinced that us we can’t do stuff like this [= fun, silly websites] anymore and have financially strangled any incentives to try." @garbageday.email
Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn next week. Baby's All Right in Williamsburg. Doors at 6:30pm. Special guest @katienotopoulos.bsky.social! It's going to be very very very fun.
We only have a few tickets left, so grab 'em while you can!!!
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Garbage Day newsletter excerpt that reads: Meta Ray-Bans are a Cybertruck for your face- they are great for weird fucking losers that want to look down your shirt and plaster it all over Instagram
@garbageday.email hit the nail on the head with this one!
If the comparing Meta Ray-Bans to a Cybertruck doesn't send the message it needs to about how these mass surveillance tools are a terrible idea, then what will actually get through to you?
We would but Bluesky has really strict limits on video uploads! (size limits, etc.) Waiting for them to make it easier to post stuff.
If @garbageday.email won’t crosspost this here, I will, it’s an excellent summary of the media environment that exists right now www.tiktok.com/@garbageday/...
De la última @garbageday.email
Pretty sure @garbageday.email called it in one of their newsletter like 4 weeks ago lol
lol. lmao
Reading @garbageday.email while listening to brat on the elliptical.
No one in this Crunch Fitness knows how based I am.
Michelangelo was CEILINGMAXXING and frame MOGGING. Jesterfied art LARP. Ascension rank 💯
Here's the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel to balance this out:
Did our best to summarize what happened To Clavicular this weekend.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular...
The @garbageday.email has talked a lot about how this is a content-driven administration. Policy by posting. Polling by likes.
So to see the main content creator of ICE/CBP not only get fired but get his posting privileges revoked (lol) is proof that they are losing on the policy and the humanity.
"Generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine ... but for your life."
Worth the read; you'll get *plenty* before you hit the @garbageday.email paywall.
I posted a while ago that I caved and asked ChatGPT for help and it was actually really helpful. But I realized that it made me think it was helping by using the right language and getting me close but in the end I had nothing useful. @garbageday.email aptly calls it "edging". tinyurl.com/y73a3s89
Huffing Gas Town, Pt. 2: If I Could, I Would Download Claude Into A Furby And Beat It To Death With A Hammer
Seems like @garbageday.email’s experiment with vibe coding is going well
Absolute banger from @garbageday.email today on Gen AI: "It is not a revolution in computing, but a revolution in accepting lower standards."
www.garbageday.email/p/generative...
I can’t speak for everyone, but my mind tends to treat writing an article, making a video, writing a song, cooking a meal, drawing an image, and, apparently, designing software the same way. It’s not a matter of just “generating” something perfect from my head, but exploring the tension that exists between what I’m imagining and the limitations of my stupid meat body. That’s actually the exciting part. It also lets me figure out if something has turned out wrong or just resulted in a happy accident. (The following is highlighted for emphasis) Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.
Analogy of AI to slot machines 🧑🍳🤌💋 @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s...
This is an incredibly dark read from @garbageday.email…the on the ground reporting is appreciated and there is so much to be concerned about with ICE’s actions in Minneapolis & what they prefigure nationally.
Excellent (if depressing) post covering the new reality we're in from @garbageday.email/@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social: "I can’t help but wonder what a protest can even accomplish when those in power do not think they will ever have to lose that power....The lesson here is clear: We’re on our own now."
"Intense video" Fox News' Matt Finn writes as he smirks and laughs while filming protesters being arrested by ICE agents as he does his little state-sanctioned ride-along with them this morning.
Beyond the discourse, though, it also convinced a lot more people to play the game. Data from SteamCharts shows that after the awards, the game’s concurrent player count went from a daily average of 14,000 to 45,000 within a few days. Sales estimates from SteamDB show that the week after the awards, Expedition 33 went from Steam’s 12th best-selling non-free game to number two, behind Arc Raiders. This is exactly what awards are supposed to do. Whether or not you think Expedition 33 counts as an indie game, The Game Awards are accomplishing their most basic goal of giving attention and distinction to their winners. This wasn’t always the case — from the records we can find, there wasn’t any comparable bump back when the awards were called the Spike TV VGAs.
As @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social reports from on the ground in Minneapolis, I'm holding the fort at @garbageday.email with our monthly Garbage Intelligence issue.
We have all The Game Awards numbers, including how much attention all those wins gave Clair Obscur.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-oscars...
Excellent post from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @garbageday.email
'The rise of the troll state: #Maduro Was Offered Up To The Algorithm. The arrest is the clearest example yet of how thoroughly President Donald #Trump and his cronies have transformed the machinery of American politics'
#Venezuela
We're hanging out on a livestream rn. Come say hi!
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Screenshot from Garbage Day newsletter: "consumption, before we ever saw it reflected back at us. Gen Z, however, is treating these fuzzy reflections as real. A big chunk of the TikTokers sharing millennial hopecore edits say they’ve been binging the 2012 HBO show Girls and seem to think it actually reflected the time period. But I distinctly remember recoiling in embarrassed horror at its depiction of what was meant to be my life in Greenpoint when I sat down with friends to watch the pilot. “How dare Lena Dunham walk past Enid’s,” I yelled at the screen. "That's"
Today's @garbageday.email (which is glorious) is about Gen Z's nostalgia for the millennial era. But every generation goes through this. Millennials cringed in horror at their depiction in Girls; Gen Xers cringed the same way at Reality Bites. ("It feels weird to be so marketed to," a friend said.)
All year I've been thinking about what discovery looks like in a post-search era. I love that we now often look to great human curators. So I'm starting a new series interviewing some of my favourites! First up @cates.bsky.social from @garbageday.email
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A chart titled "MrBeast Longform Video Performance, First 24 Hours (estimated)". The chart shows a decline in MrBeast's viewing figures.
We're currently offering a one-month free trial subscription to @garbageday.email's premium content!
That means that if you sign up today, you'll get to read our Garbage Intelligence report for free, including the Big Spreadsheet and - this month - a big statistical L for MrBeast.
"Well, Jimmy Fallon may have finally accepted his destined role as DeGeneres’ replacement as America’s cultural necromancer. " @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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Nice.
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