There are 2 Stanley Cups. They let players do terrible things to the traveling cup, which its well paid keeper gets stuck dealing with. The other, the real cup never leaves the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
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babies have been baptised in Lord Stanley’s Cup, even!
talk about being born into greatness!
let us take a moment to recognize where the cup resides this year… oh! south florida has hockey??!! who knew!
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[bitter reaction] The Illitch family has been splitting focus between the Tigers and the Red Wings for around a decade now. As a result, both teams are not succeeding. Also, as much as it pains me to say it, perhaps Stevie Y isn’t a good fit for general manager for the Wings. I am seriously thinking he just got lucky walking into the Tampa Lightning organization. 
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Maybe it can just go back to being aired on PBS, where it’s generally freely accessible on it’s first run to all children, instead of being paywalled?
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Sure, but where’s the second yacht and third house in that?
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You know… that got me thinking about Tumblr, actually. At one point, it was a hot commodity, Yahoo bought it up (and then they got bought by Verizon), and expected to make it the NEXT BIG THING… but then, it didn’t work out like that. It got sold to Automattic (who owns wordpress). The place is just… too weird (ask @MerelyGifted or watch any video by Tumblr historian Strange Aeons). It failed to be a major competitor with other social media, because of that weirdness of the tumblr community (it can be so weird). So, it continues to be a place where weird people do weird shit and kind of don’t think about how they are doing as a brand (probably not everyone, but ya know). It just… exists as the thing that it is rather than existing solely as a commoditized space (which, I guess it probably is that, too, but just less so than the other social media spaces). The people who just want to make money off shit lost interest and the weird cultural ecosystem of tumblr still exists…
It seems like the big content companies seem to be losing interest in Muppets, too. Disney closed down a major Muppet ride/attraction recently, and now HBO is losing interest in Sesame Street… so it gives me hope that these can go back to just being beloved cultural touchstones more than just commodities that make another yacht for another dipshit… If Sesame Street can go back to being on PBS exclusively and the Muppets can get sold back to the Henson Co, I think that’d be a win for humanity, in a weird way. Because, of course PBS has it’s problems and of course Henson Co is a for-profit corporation, but compared to Disney and HBO, I feel like they are a better way of providing entertainment, because they’ve always been less invested in enriching those at the top, and more interest in creating good culture, if that makes sense…
Okay… sorry to be so rambly.
me, writing this reply
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I was also sad how a cool site like Flickr was also mismanaged by Yahoo. I don’t know if the place is any better now
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Yeah, I don’t know… I do see links to flickr doing image searches often times, but I never used it, so I couldn’t speak to that… but that seems to be a whole bunch of platforms and websites that were once popular and then lots of people moved on to the next new shiny thing… Think of all those geocities sites out there, just sort of hanging out, trapped in amber unchanging since the 1990s…
I don’t know, there is probably a whole thesis therein.
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Something I had seen on the subject back then:
Basically arguing that Yahoo stopped working on it because all they were actually interested in acquiring was the tagged content. Not sure I believe developing and social is always such a gift but the latter sounds very plausible.
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Why are kids being taught to just “look it up” at all? Even before ChatGPT, that would have been a really problematic approach. It seems like educating students of all ages in media literacy should always begin with trusted sources, and then as they progress talk about what that means and how to evaluate on one’s own. Just telling kids to “look it up” is bonkers.
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It’s so weird that when some moronic clothing retailer (like the gap or some such junk) put their “dress normal” taglined BS ad on tumblr, I went ballistic.
“dress normal?! WTF you shitheads, this is tumblr! Absolutely nothing and no one here is normal! Bonus: your grammar sucks!”
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THIS
I’ve said it before there was a ChatGBT and I will say it again — there is book information and there is internet information, and they rarely overlap.
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We can see what hapens to platforms that don’t resist normality and especially resist monetization. They get enshittified.
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I bet you’re secretly quoting Wikipedia on that.
/s
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Exactly! But I think that attempts to enshittify can backfire and be reaappropriated by community minded people, which is what I’m trying to suggest happened with tumblr.
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