That creepy letter (and that creepy CEO summit)

Enigmas never age, but cowardice is forever.

🏙️ “There must be more to life than having everything,” the President wrote…

🏙️ Which probably gave Jeff a…

🏙️ Let’s see how the cult attempts to deny/deflect on this one…

🏙️ First, something will get changed to the Department of Nobel Peace Prizes. Then, they’ll claim The Wall Street Journal (which ran the story first) is run by illegal aliens and send in some masked ICE agents to occupy its offices....

🏙️ Re: the dialogue on the card, good screenwriters know to beware of voiceovers…

Billy Wilder: “In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they're seeing.”

🏙️ But before we judge the script too harshly, let's at least do a table read. Sometimes a screenplay can really come alive when performed aloud…

🏙️ If nothing else, maybe Calvin Klein or Dior can use “Enigmas never age” for its next perfume ad…

🏙️ Perhaps the table read can be done at the next Gathering of the Juggling-CEOs. AI may be about to take over the universe, but certainly we can trust our tech overlords to do the right thi– 😱…

🏙️ Nothing to be concerned about. In fact, it’s all rather invigorating. See: Sam Altman calls Trump a 'very refreshing change' during CEO White House dinner…

Silicon Valley CEOs sang the praises of President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday evening, joining the president for a dinner where each executive tried to outdo the others with their admiration for Trump’s executive actions.

🏙️ A hot mic even picked Zuckerberg up telling Trump conspiring is hard: “I’m sorry, I was ready to do our…I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with”…

🏙️ Kinda amazing that tech nerds made all those billions just so they could be right back at the lunch table in the cafeteria begging the bully to be nice to them. So much for having f– you money…

🏙️ Y’know how Marc Maron is standing up to the manosphere bros of comedy? That ain’t easy. It’s tough to break the code of omerta within an industry. It takes a trusted whistleblower to come out and say, “This ain’t right.”

So who’s that person/people willing to do that with Silicon Valley? Sure would be nice for industry folks besides Kara Swisher/Scott Galloway to call out this sorta lame bootlicking-for-profits by those who are the de facto face of technology. Otherwise, people might get the wrong idea.

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Quickies

🎯 I'm surprisingly similar to the Norse god of mischief so guess you could say I'm lowkey Loki.

🎯 Film people filming themselves giving other film people standing ovations is the most film people thing ever.

🎯 No one ever tells you to be more chalant. Screw that. I’m gonna chalant it up. I am non-nonchalant!

🎯 My tribe is people who refuse to join a tribe. Scheduling our meetings is hell.

🎯 Ghosting should not be acceptable behavior. It's the normalization of cowardice.

🎯 The most Jewish thing about me is my extreme level of coupon code remorse whenever I see that empty box on the checkout screen. There’s a deal I’m missing out on somewhere and it hurts.

🎯 I feel like a winning political strategy might be to offer a choice somewhere in between socialism and fascism. Perhaps we could get that on the menu too?

🎯 The DSM is like the Bible. We treat it like its gospel when, in reality, a bunch of dudes just made it up.

🎯 Can’t help it. Every time I hear "porch pirate," I think it sounds like a gay slur.

🎯 There is nothing that makes you seem older than explaining, "I'm not a boomer, I'm Gen X." Sure, whatever ya say, geezer.

🎯 “How do you define woman?” Simple! A woman is whatever the woman I want to sleep with says a woman is.

🎯 Nothing is more American than when the alphabetical pulldown menu for country starts with “United States” and then goes from A-Z. Literally “America first” in action.

🎯 Quiz: True or False? In hour three of the Rogan/Tim Dillon podcast, he discusses how H*tler likely wound up in Argentina after WWII but he did NOT hide out in the woods because he never would have been able to make his own arrows. (A: True!)

🎯 Of course the internet is filled with lies. In order to get online, we all click, “Yes, I’ve read the terms and conditions.” That’s our way of saying, “I’m a liar too! Lemme onboard this lovely lying train!”

Rock on. 🤘

-Matt

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