Blaze your baked goods on 4/20 and receive double the impressions you pay for. That’s double the audience—for free! Right this way ▶️

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The first mobile phone call was made on this day in 1973. Martin Cooper, using a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC, placed a call from the streets of New York to Bell Labs in New Jersey. The device was 9 inches tall, had a talk-time of 35 minutes, and took 10 hours to recharge.

that phone booth has no idea what’s coming.

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The communal viewing of the eclipse was the most magical part for me

(in Manhattan, not Vermont)

🐖👖Now presenting: the trailer for Dropout's new show, Smartypants.

Smartypants brings together the most esteemed, inquisitive, and unhinged “academics” in comedy to ask the questions society is too afraid to ask, like “What is the happiest birthdate?" and "Do vegetables really exist?" Host Rekha Shankar leads an all-star cast to enlighten and inspire viewers in this series premiering April 25th on Dropout.

Featuring guest speakers Paul F. Tompkins, Demi Adejuyigbe, Erika Ishii, Jon Gabrus, Vic Michaelis, Katie Marovitch, Paul Robalino, Mike Trapp, Jacob Wysocki, Jess Ross, Alexis Rhiannon, Ross Bryant, Jacquis Neal, Fumi Abe, Janie Stolar, Kimia Behpoornia, Zach Reino, Raphael Chestang, Ryan Creamer, Anna Garcia, Grant O'Brien, Pallavi Gunalan, Carolyn Page, Patrick McDonald, Brian Bahe, Sara Nahusenay, Cynthia Kao, Carlos Luna, and Tao Yang.

🎪 Find more details and order links here:

So cool.

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Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war

The conversation around this is interesting. I heard marketers this weekend discussing that since the War in Ukraine, and with concerns around China invading Taiwan the U.S. Army sponsorship seemed less out of place and actually welcomed to SXSW. There's a business/technology vs musician/artist dynamic here , but also a generational one. I do wonder if that's just because people seem to get more (traditionally) conservative with age, or if it's the specific life and historical events of the older generation (ie knew the USSR, lived through 9/11).

Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war

shots fired.