Michael Conniff

“Tex’s instruction to an associate, after breaking wind: “Catch that one and paint it green.”
― Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

“This is a grubby little con game, and its technical execution is very clumsy. It turns out that when DoorDash sends a job to the app on a Dasher’s phone, the job listing includes the tip amount, but the Dasher’s app just hides that information from the Dasher.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“As a girl, Aretha was thoroughly absorbed in the church life of New Bethel and in the cultural life of her living room, which, at times, seemed to represent the epicenter and genealogy of African American music. Sitting on the stairs, she watched Art Tatum and Nat Cole play the piano. Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Della Reese, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine, and Lionel Hampton came to visit.”
― David Remnick, Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music

“Even after acquisitions, predatory pricing, preferential discounting, exclusivity deals, and other antitrust violations allowed the tech sector to sew up the market and eliminate competition, tech workers held the line. Even after the newly consolidated industry captured its regulators and convinced them that violating our labor, consumer, and privacy rights was okay so long as it was done with an app, tech workers held the line.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It