Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team

brw. #0007

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MoviePass Worked Out Great

• Too many highlights to mention but this floored me:

  • “MoviePass began limiting subscriber access ahead of the April release of the highly anticipated ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ according to multiple former employees. The CEO ordered that the passwords of a small percentage of power users be changed, preventing them from logging onto the app and ordering tickets.”

• h/t @timmort

🚙🚗 New York City’s First Self-Driving Shuttle Service Launches Today

• The first driverless car service to launch in NYC will take riders around a one mile loop of Brooklyn’s Navy Yard.

😡😡😡 Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers

• Yelp is instead pushing customers to Grubhub-owned phone numbers in order to facilitate a ‘referral fee’ of 15-20% percent of the order total.

🌳🏠 The Worst Villain in Gaming Lurks in a Hugely Popular Match-3 Game

• Cass Marshall’s tortured relationship with Austin the Butler.

🧨🧨🧨 Did We Remember the Fire? The Modern Relevancy of Every Line of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Tom Lum @TomLumPerson

My brain: Ahh, time to enjoy a few days off, maybe finally read that book My brain, but in the shower: WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IF WE GRAPHED HOW RELEVAT EVERY LINE OF WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE IS TomLum.com/remember-the-f… 🔥N

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// and a playlist

A Plant in the Wrong Place

• Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them:

  • False Direction — Dayglow

  • We Talk All the Time — The Japanese House

  • At Home — Slow Pulp

  • Jane, Don’t You Know Me? — Elvis Depressedly

  • any human friend — Marika Hackman

  • If I Were You — Claud

  • Margaritas at the Mall — Purple Mountains

  • Fried — Fishing in Japan

  • Deeper Than Love — Colleen Green

• 🍎 Apple Music

• 💚 Spotify