Hump day, and here is what we put together for your 7-minute day prep:
Bot Crawl
Tuesdays
ElectionEclipseTears of a Heart
Music Notes
Low-Freq Bass Moves
NYC Library Books
Check Your Head
Coffee and Google
Bigmouth Strikes Again:
Stories | News | Music | Art & Design - With A Shout (out)
Big Stories
Invasion of the Bot Snatchers
Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Bots all seem to be in the news all the time, and most of us don’t know what any of them are. Today we are going to dive into Bots. Well, maybe not attack, but get our feet wet with the help of Blake Guidry from Morning Brew. He did a significant segment on Bots and impressed us even more by going not-so-undercover to try and buy a Bot Army. We also know more about CL41R3_H4WK1N5 than we need to.
A couple of our takeaways include the following:
Twitter has an open API for bots, meaning any programmer can build anything that can automate the creation and activity on an account. This is a simplified version, but it helps us see it.
One purpose of an army of bots can be to overwhelm a real user or user group and get them to stop posting due to the overwhelming troll activity in their feeds.
Bots can affect a public company’s share price by inflating user counts.
Some analysts think bots, troll farms, and other persona-snatchers (our word) could be a billion-dollar market.
And we thought CL41R3 was just a “fat girl’s name” - John Bender, The Breakfast Club.
Stranger Things
Tuesday Eclipse
The red wave was not at the polls; it was in space. USA Today put together several great photos of the Lunar Eclipse. In perfect GOT fashion, the red wave at the polls seems to have been eclipsed, and our sun and moon were on the exact opposite sides of the earth. This stuff does write itself!
Spotlight
Catastrophe of Heart
Actor, writer, comedian, and creator Rob Delaney who, with his real-life wife Sharon Horgan, starred in the Amazon Prime series Catastrophe, wrote another book. Catastrophe is well known for its unflinching honesty and ability to laugh at itself. In Delaney’s new book A Heart That Works, several reviews said honesty is visceral. This is a memoir that covers the loss of Rob’s youngest son. Delaney wrote a tragic story and painted a picture of rage, grief, and loss - then came out the other side with some grace. All are written with humor and hope in a way only Delaney can.
[Music Notes]
Blink Movies, Turnstile Commercials, & Memories
Tom Delonge of Blink 182 and Angels and Airwaves recently completed a deal to get a movie he directed out on the airwaves. Spin Magazine reported Screen Media would help to get the film out.
Here’s a link to the Turnstile Taco Bell Commercial.
We miss the 90s; see Consequence Sound for a unique hit.
Sound Checks
The Bass is On Fire
Anyone who has ever been to a live concert or a dance bar knows music isn’t only heard through your ears; it’s felt in your body and, when it hits you, in your soul. Or is that just the low-frequency bass? In this article from ScienceDaily, they turned a dance floor into a lab and tried to figure out how to get more people on the dance floor. We hope all the wedding dj’s out there see this!
[More New Stuff]
Don’t Tell A Soul
Secret Links to Cool Stuff:
Words | Music | Art | Unknown
Jukebox Shuffle
Thoughts on Music
Check Your Head just turned 30.
Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.
Words from Gen X
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