I am so excited that my son is enjoying “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. Even though I am not a huge fan of the show, I do find it enjoyable, and dear god it’s so much better than the complete garbage that is typically targeted to four-year-olds.
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I don’t think a site’s theme should apply to the navigation bar, because sites don’t own navigation. They do own their tab somewhat, which already has their favicon. Themed tabs would help users more quickly find the tabs. The risk is that colored tabs could get too jarring.
Newsworthy Bias
I have been using the term “shit happens bias”, but maybe a more accurate (and less salty) moniker is “newsworthy bias” in that the newsworthiness of a shameful act is directly proportional to the decency of the person committing said act.
Even with the simple “man bites dog” example, newsworthiness is lost if the man in question is the same shameless asshole everyone knows has been biting dogs for years. “Man bites dog!? Oh, it’s just Steve again. Nevermind.”
What makes newsworthy bias harmful today is that instead of a single shameless asshole serially biting dogs, we have an entire party of assholes so shameless that any shameless act they commit is no longer considered newsworthy.
And when the only other party still tries to be decent, newsworthy bias invariably helps the shameless party win elections as shameless acts committed by its shameless members end up getting overlooked while even the smallest scent of impropriety from their only competition gets full coverage.
Internet advertising is so smart. Not only are there hot singles ads, there are also sleeper van ads for those who inevitably get kicked out after clicking on hot singles ads.
So smart.
Does this happen to anyone else?
The special today at the local barbecue place was their sliced brisket on a surprisingly legit everything bagel with arbol chili cream cheese. Needless to say, my lunch exceeded the daily suggested calories. If I don’t make it, know that I died happy.
Loki (Vague Spoilers)
I need to sit with it for a while to be sure, but I think “Loki” might be my favorite story in the MCU so far, movies included.
Melanie told me that some number of people were disappointed by the last episode, in part because they watched the show as a mystery and there was no real denouement. I sorta get that, but to me the show screamed “fantasy adventure” more than anything else. Sure there were (and still are) many puzzles, but they didn’t hook me nearly as much as the singular question “where is this crazy train going next?”
Also for anyone who didn’t do a full MCU media blackout, watching “Loki” was a bit like watching “Titanic”. You knew what was ultimately going to happen. Now that I think about it, the fact that “Loki” still stuck the landing despite everyone knowing a major piece of the ending makes the show even more impressive.
Finally I’ll add that “Loki” also succeeded in making me excited for the next chapter, something few MCU stories have done. I don’t have high expectations though, because whatever comes next sure has a tough act to follow.
It sure feels like PC folks are maybe a little too optimistic that Windows 11 will stick the landing while fixing all of Windows’s historical idiosyncrasies, while Apple folks are little too pessimistic that Apple won’t continue to iterate on Safari’s design.
I will say that I wouldn’t have marketed Fleets as a new thing™. Instead I would have added an auto-delete option when composing a Tweet. It feels more accurate and also frames the competitor as merely a feature (as opposed to marketing a clone, which validates that competitor.)
I have seen a couple of comments about how discontinuing Fleets is a sign of a healthy product org at Twitter. Without having any information, that rings true to me. Big companies stop innovating in part because trying new things comes with higher risk of scrutiny and ridicule.