relevant intro:
ordered a new jump rope and some floss. people kept talking about cocofloss, a revolutionary new floss, but went oral-b. today I wasn’t ready for a revolutionary floss. maybe i wasn’t ready for an $8 floss. everyone reading this floss? waterpik? one person out of the 50,000 of you unsubscribed yesterday - I won’t name names, but i bet if they had stuck it out one more day and read this intro, we could have had a real chance together.
today in pretty websites: stripe press, the publishing arm of everyone’s favorite payments company (everyone’s….favorite…payments company…has a publishing arm? trying to keep this short-ish but i’d love to talk about it with you) updated their website. i’ve spent some of this morning spinning the books and seeing how light shifts off of them. also cool that they’re getting into film production - the documentary looks great, and has a brief cameo from one of my heroes Dick Cavett, so it’s got that going for it. https://press.stripe.com/
today in inspiring people: amazing interview with Trevor McFedries, who I mentioned the other day - founder of Brud and FWB. At one point Brud had a manifesto of sorts on its website, which i can’t find, but mentioned that the goal of Lil Miquela was to be the web-scale equivalent for social impact modeled by shows like Will & Grace, which pushed the conversation of same-sex marriage forward. https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/69401876/mcfedries-building-web-30?tab=blocks
learned some new things about the internet and related current events: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
last thing - going to cross post this on mirror, which opened up to the public today: https://dev.mirror.xyz/ (p.s. while looking for a good link about Mirror, I got linked to an amazing essay on Mirror, and while reading about the author I came across this collective, which gave me a list of like 100 more things to read, and i can preemptively say I’ll include here someday, but in case you want to get a head start and send me any you really love: https://otherinter.net/)