🎙️ Rot Economics with MIT’s Daron Acemoglu — Better Offline

Really great interview with Daron about how the growth at all cost model, especially with an eye on short term shareholder value, along with AI has created detrimental effects on our economy.

🎸 A Complete Unknown — Trailer

I haven’t been super impressed with Timotay until right this moment. I think that’s him singing and he nails it. Plus James Mangold is directing so I have suuuuper high hopes for this one.

🐒 Bad Monkey — Trailer

The new show from Bill Lawrence, starring Vince Vaughn with a huuuuge cast. Apparently, this show had a super troubled production which makes me nervous about it, but the trailer looks pretty solid to me.

🤸 We Need to Rethink Exercise - The Workout Paradox — Kurzgesagt

I didn’t know the details or the science, but I’ve long been telling people, diet matters more than exercise when it comes to weight.

🏪 7-Eleven Is Reinventing Its $17B Food Business to Be More Japanese — WSJ

Honestly, this might actually get me to check out a 7-11 again. I’ve always been grossed out by their hot dogs and miss the days of White Hens with delis and fantastic cookies in Chicago…

👂 Trump-style ear bandages are new trend at Republican National Convention — Reuters

Seriously… what the fuck is wrong with people???

🎼 Rescore the Opening Car Chase from Mad Max: Fury Road by Breakmaster Cylinder — Kickstarter

Ummm… yes, please!

🦨 Trump files FEC complaint over transfer of Biden cash to Harris — The Hill

They are clearly grasping at straws here. Even if it were illegal (which it is not), Biden is President. According to the Supreme Court the President can do whatever the hell he wants and if he wants to transfer his campaign to Harris—then that’s the official act.

🏛️ Harris secures Pritzker endorsement; effectively clearing the path to the nomination — Politico

Related to the previous post. Happy to see Pritzker quickly do the right thing (I do wonder if him and his team did a little looksy to see if he’d have a shot). While I kind of hope he stays in Illinois to continue the great stuff he has done for my home state, I do think he is one of the better options for VP…

👀 Lithonia —Childish Gambino

WHAT?

I already thought Childish Gambino videos were great (This is America, Little Foot Big Foot), but this is on a-whole-nother level.

💀 Biden Flubs Exit Speech — The Onion

Fantastic stuff 🤣

🏛️ Kamala Harris: What to know about the vice president and former U.S. senator — Axios

Well the inevitable happened. Joe Biden has officially withdrawn from the race and endorsed Kamala. While I do think she’s probably the best for the job, I do worry about America’s sexism/racism effecting her chances to win. Will be interesting to see who she would choose as VP.

🔠 New type for Rolling Stone — Commercial Type

Love getting to see all that goes into creating something like this for a brand so large and iconic along with the overall redesign. I picked up a copy today to check it out.

🧃 A Definitive Ranking of Almost Every Flavor of Mountain Dew — Vice

My wife and I were talking about what we think the second best selling Mountain Dew was. I said Code Red, but that Baja Blast is probably on the way to take the crown. She vehemently disagreed with Code Red. Anyways, now we are thinking it’s time for a YouTube show of us trying and drinking Mountain Dew with friends in the style of the late, great Anthony Bourdain.

🎮 Light No Fire — Announcement Trailer

I know I’m a bit late to this one (games aren’t my area of expertise), but this looks exactly like something I’d love. An open world, online game you can hop in and out of, that’s not too stressful, where you can feel a sense of progress, and not feel like you are falling behind people who play a lot more.

📒 Omnibus is closing

We aren’t growing fast enough and would require a significant amount of external funding to proceed and become sustainable. This is a tough business to achieve that within the current landscape.

I’m not surprised. Comics are a small market. Digital comics even smaller. And trying to compete against Amazon is tough. I think it also just took them too long to get some basics right.

🤖 It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works — 404 Media

The U.S. government is currently considering an exemption to U.S. copyright law that would allow people to break technical protection measures and digital rights management (DRM) on AI systems to learn more about how they work, probe them for bias, discrimination, harmful and inaccurate outputs, and to learn more about the data they are trained on.

Absolutely love to see it. Really hope this goes through and more accountability gets brought to these companies with CEO’s driving multimillion dollar cars.

☕️ What Does A Great Cup Of Coffee Taste Like? — James Hoffman

Really fun and highly produced video from James. One thing I struggled with when I was starting to make espresso at home was “is this actually that good?” And he does a great job getting into the emotional experience of a good cup of coffee, but ultimately, it’s about finding what you enjoy the most.

🎼 The Blue Album Live in Spotify Studios — Weezer

Oh man, this was so great. When that “Say It Ain’t So” guitar kicked in I got all giddy.