Thijs van der Vossen

RE: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

This is because most people don’t read that well.

“Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder

The new Boards of Canada album and the new Taylor Swift song are both great in the same “humans doing their craft they worked to get good at really well” kinda way.

The French taking their comics artists and their newspapers seriously.

“That’s what it means to exist in this lifetime, to actually participate in the act of life, and not to just allow things to happen. It’s to go out there, and feel the bumps and the grooves of life.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/04/roberto-dos-santos-on-directing-the-first-straight-to-vhs-movie-in-20-years

Paris says:

“This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival