Kelloggs boycott, April 1.

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A bit of color for you folks in Europe. I don’t know if you get our same consumer products, but Kelloggs sells many products traditionally targeted at breakfast. A corporate talking head got on network television, and opened his cakehole at the wrong time and in the wrong place. With inflation as high as it is here, and prices stubbornly refusing to retreat, it seems consumers have woken up somewhat to the games the billionaire classes are playing. [Video]

I welcome the grassroots outrage. I could pick better targets, but when you are aware of the history of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, it puts a different spin on this whole situation (IMHO). Designed to calm your cojones! A perfect foil to the political IVF battles.

Life is so ironic.

Luminous Landscape: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sensor Fab: Pt 1.

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“We’ve been hearing that a 100 MP full-frame sensor is about a year away since at least 2020, and as of this writing, I think it’s STILL about a year away (late 2024 or early 2025 at the earliest, with real availability probably in 2025). It may STILL be a year away at this time next year.”

Capital+Main: Another New Mexico Legislative Session Ends, and Again — No New Oil and Gas Reforms.

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If you wonder why oil and gas bulldoze through our Legislature, look no farther than this: “Revenues from oil and gas production comprise more than 40% of New Mexico’s $10.2 billion budget for the 2025 fiscal year and the Legislature spent much of its monthlong session allocating those billions to everything from education to health care to roads.”

Vox: Everyone's A Sell-Out Now.

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“The problem is that America more or less runs on the concept of selling out.” A pretty cynical statement. I understand the feeling, however. The social media influencers I tend to follow are the restless ones, unsatisfied with their reach on Instagram, they’ll push Youtube, or TikTok. Or other channels. They have the threadbare profit to be able to analyze their best channel, their best followers, and tailor accordingly. It’s instructive to watch, but I have to really commend them for the hours and sweat equity that they put into these well-produced video shorts. They continue to do it, generally, for about two years before burnout (IMHO). I can only wonder if they ever get the $ remuneration that truly represents those hours. I suspect not.

Getting onto Instagram reels and seeing one influencer with like 30 beautiful shorts in a single hour of the morning, I want to just bury my head and give up life as a committed slacker. I suspect I’m not alone. The pressure to broadcast with perfection (the young and unblemished only need broadcast, also) must be intense.