Andrew Styer

@styer.bsky.social

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Welp, this again. Ex-Google product leader in privacy, product strategy, & UX design. Early Internet human who keeps on internet-ing about burnout, propaganda, politics, and sci-fi jokes. See also: Covert stuttering, exertion interfaces, & Land Rovers

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It’s a recipe for a drink called Beef Fizz 2 cans condensed beef broth 1 cup chilled ginger ale 2 tablespoons lemon juice Combine ingredients and pour over ice in glasses. 6 to 8 servings Yum
Capt Picard looking dubious and glancing off camera while the caption reads “wild party sounds”
A map of Montgomery County, PA, colored red and blue to show the election results. The bottom of the county is almost all blue; the top is almost all dark red.
Riker from Star Trek NG looks haggard and there is a pink laser being pointed into his head. These things may or may not be related.
Sign for the wide awakes with an open eye and the year 1860
Screenshot of image that says: Comparing Drinking Rates: 1830 vs. 2018 As if it really needs saying, 7 gallons of ethanol per year, per capita, is an insane number. Consider this: My significant other and I both drink alcohol. If we were drinking at 1830 levels, we would be plowing through roughly 3.4 standard, 750 ml bottles of Jim Beam White Label Bourbon per week, in a single household. Our livers would be sending us every conceivable manner of distress signal, assuming they didn't immediately shut down.
Corporate America's long-running war for talent sounds more like a war on the talent these days. Not long ago, bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset, so much that some hoarded new hires before having enough for them to do. Today, with a giant question mark hanging over the economy, executives are pulling no punches in saying employees need to work harder, complain less and be glad they still have jobs. "Work-life balance is your problem," Emma Grede, co-founder of the shapewear company Skims and CEO of clothing label Good American, said this month. After recently cutting more than a 1,000 jobs, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said remaining corporate staff needed to step it up and "own whether or not this place grows." JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, in a profanity-laced internal meeting, told employees lamenting a return-to-work mandate that he didn't care. "I've had it with this kind of stuff," he said. "I've been working seven days a week since Covid, and I come in, and - where is everybody else?" The shift in tone marks a shift in power now that companies are shrinking their white-collar staff. With jobs harder to find, many workers are seeing perks disappear and their grievances ignored. The latest episode happened at a contentious all-hands at Uber last month. The company had just changed the requirements to get a monthlong paid sabbatical to eight years of working at the ride-hail giant, from five years. A decision to require people to work at least three instead of two days in the office also drew complaints. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi suggested those unhappy with the changes deal with it. "We recognize some of these changes are going to be unpopular," he said in comments originally reported by CNBC. "This is a risk we decided to take." How much more license do bosses have to talk tough to staff? Take the outrage in 2023 when the head of furniture company MillerKnoll told staffers worried about bonuses to "leave pity city." That comment, made in a vid…
Screenshot from Reuters: Headline: Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get in touch By Reuters February 6, 2025 11:15 AM EST • Updated 6 hours ago
A mangy bear which looks vaguely like a werewolf or a man in a cloth bear costume with patches of hair on it
Screenshot of article from the daily beast. The text reads: “This led to an hours-long text exchange that culminated in a bet: Musk bet Harris $1 million for charity against a $1,000 bottle of tequila that the U.S. would not see 35,000 cases of the respiratory disease. When the CDC logged 600,000 cases and 35,000 deaths from COVID-19 a few weeks later, Harris sent Musk another text: "Is (35,000 deaths + 600,000 cases) > 35,000 cases?" "This text appears to have ended our friendship," Harris wrote. "Elon never responded, and it was not long before he began maligning me on Twitter for a variety of imaginary offenses. For my part, I eventually started complaining about the startling erosion of his integrity on my podcast, without providing any detail about what had transpired between us."
Riker is wearing a robe open to his waist while Counselor Troi and Lt Yar look on in… amusement?
What looks like an odd shaped rock with tubes of emerald embedded in it, on what looks like a table or in a concrete box — it’s unclear where it is
An incredibly colorful sunset over Joshua Tree National Park
Post-sunset glow in sky over mountains with a tree and picnic table barely visible on the foreground
A long empty dirt road stretches off into the distance. A traffic cone is stuck on top of a white pole next to the road, along with a Joshua tree.
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Sunset over the Angeles mountains, with orange in top and blue-grey mountains on the foreground
Pictures of young Kamala Harris and young Tim Walz, looking like an album cover
Image of the decontamination room in Enterprise, with three fit people in their underwear and blue light and generally very sweaty…
Screenshot from @swiftonsecurity that says: “I'm sorry your personal compunction makes this stark choice difficult for you. That your vote of absolute secrecy is some moral impingement on your soul. As an individual your only power is this. Satisfaction in voting is indulgence, a character weakness. There are only results.”
Screenshot of Washington Post article with headline “As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push "anti-diet" advice”
Picture of the front of a building with a window and a sign that says “the feve”
Damnation Alley’s monster truck thing is like the Cybertruck’s delinquent father who left for cigarettes and never came back
Screenshot of Horny Corner including popular times and how long people typically spend there