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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 3h

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 9h

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 3h

Should just add it into every headline for the SEO benefits

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 5h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 23d

The reverb 🤌

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 18h

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 18h

100%. I spend so much time thinking about and struggling with and second-guessing whatever I'm trying to write, but that's part of the process. It's sometimes awful, but it's also important and helps me improve. Why would I want to skip that part.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 18h

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 21h

Special shout out to this super interesting paper from 2014 about the revival of the Dutch beer brewing sector that helped me get my head around the concept of industry decline and renewal.
repub.eur.nl/pub/77042/EP...

OCHEM J. KROEZEN
The Renewal of
Mature Industries
An Examination of the Revival
of the Dutch Beer Brewing Industry

Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 21h

Workshopping headlines for tomorrow's newsletter. A nice breezy subject this week... #CoffeeSky

Sign up here to get the article in your inbox: thepourover.coffee/subscribe

Costa, JAB, and the Endless Cycle of Coffee Consolidation
Decline or Renewal: What Coffee Consolidation Means
for the Future of the Industry
Mergers, Acquisitions, and the Future of the Coffee Industry

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 22h

I did enjoy the news reports with headlines like "Maxwell House rebrands for the first time in 133 years" and "See which classic coffee brand has changed its name" and it's like, no they didn't. That's not what they did.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 22h

Oh my blog is always snarkier.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 1d

Lol
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Fox & Friends admits "coffee prices are soaring" due to Trump's tariffs

www.mediamatters.org

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 1d

Fresh Cup let me get snarkier than usual with this one. #CoffeeSky freshcup.com/maxwell-hous...

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Ryan Woldt @roastwestcoast.bsky.social · 1d

Newsletter drop. Includes the new podcast, vintage airline travel photos, and some thoughts on attending Roast Summit as a non-roaster. #coffeepeople #coffeesky #coffee www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com/nick-ryan-dr...

Nick and Ryan Drink Coffee In Portland, OR at Roast Summit.

We went to Roast Summit in Portland, Oregon to learn more about the dark art of roasting, and have a cup of coffee with our friend Nick Schmitt from Roastar coffee packaging.

www.coffeepeoplepodcast.com

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 1d

However (inspired by research for this week's article), I also think we need to go back to the old names for brands like Chock Full O' Nuts, Maryland Club, Eight O' Clock Coffee, Butter-Nut Coffee. You know, absolutely meaningless names.

Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 5d

Coffee company naming conventions are great because you have ones with abstract single words like Verve and Madcap, place-specific ones like Stumptown, and then a few that are just the founder's name like they're a British haulage company. Tim Wendelboe. George Howell. Eddie Stobart.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

Man who wasn't paying tax here fucks off because he won't pay tax here.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Banking billionaire becomes latest member of ultra-rich to leave UK

Banking billionaire becomes latest ultra-rich lister to leave UK

www.independent.co.uk

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 3d

I mean

Jerome Ludwig: "I like Wired but these Amazon promotions are tiresome and unseemly."

Chronically GenX: "For the entire time Amazon has existed as a company I have never used their services and do not plan to any time in this life."

See?: "Get fucked"

DPR Donuts: "Amazon has been glazing trump, don't give them money"

Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 3d

Always amusing when Wired, which consistently produces quality journalism, occasionally does a string of Prime Day roundup posts and gets absolutely screamed at in the replies.

Screenshot of a Wired post: "There's no better time than one of Amazon's sale events to treat yourself to a new Kindle. Here's the best of the Kindle sales happening for Amazon Prime Big Deals Day."

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 4d

I have been informed that the Spanish government recently considered pursuing a public job guarantee but decided against it, on the grounds that the unemployment rate has been declining and is now "only" 10%.

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Fionn Pooler @thepourover.coffee · 3d

Poor guy has the worst luck with bees.

Filming began and occurred in Sfakia, Preveli and Megara in August and September 2024.[2][3][4] During filming, Cage was reportedly attacked by a swarm of bees in one of the caves intended to be a filming location.[5

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