This week, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei melted down at the National Press Club over Elon Musk correctly identifying the legacy media’s steep decline in relevance. “Bullshit,” he shrieked to the muffled applause of his geriatric audience, “you are not the media!” He was then welcomed onto MSNBC with a “slow clap” at the request of Morning Joe, who spiraled into a sort of incantation ritual listing a slew of dying journalistic outlets and repeating “what you do matters!” which I imagine he desperately affirms to himself in the mirror every morning. In reality, MSNBC has tanked so hard Elon himself is talking about buying it. In which case, might I suggest a friendlier posture towards your new boss? Otherwise, the only Joe we’ll see in the morning is based, bald, and believes (apparently?) in dragons. Ah yes, and he’s just as over bullshit as the rest of us. 

Last week on The View, in a segment lamenting the fact that Americans are getting their news from “unreliable” sources (instead of reputable journalists like Whoopi Goldberg), Joy Behar cited Joe Rogan as an infohazard because he “believes in dragons.” Now, as a PhD scientist in a completely unrelated field, I say big whoop. Dinosaurs existed for around 200 million years and we have maybe a few thousand reasonably complete skeletons to represent all of their lives? There are like two, kind-of-complete brontosaurus skeletons somewhere (neither have a skull). There are large gaps in the fossil record, like the 25-million-year hiatus during the late Cretaceous where there were no sauropod fossils (presumably because they became a space-faring species for a hot minute?). The reality is, we know nothing of the history of life on this planet. So keep up the dragon talk, Joe — unlike Joy Behar most days, no one can prove you wrong.

Axios finally noticed RFK, right-wing leaders, and holistic health influencers all love raw milk, calling it a “common rallying point” that “transcends partisanship” and “poses risks like exposure to harmful bacteria.” While they’re about 3 years behind schedule in noticing, and while no one respects what “federal health officials” say anymore, Axios is right to be wary. Not because raw milk will unite the world, but because it’s actually a dangerous gateway drug... to becoming annoying as hell. One minute you’re drafting innocent posts about the benefits of raw enzymes, the next you’re a holistic e-girl slinging cringy bat signal slop to attract RW bodybuilders. Listen, raw milk is fine. Should be legal. Better than pasteurized. But raw milk is not a personality, and if you’re a childless orthorexic posting about it 3x a day on X, I regret to inform you the mainstream libs were right — it definitely ruined your life.

Let’s say you’re a startup founder with dreams as ambitious as colonizing the moon. Then one day you notice Jerry from accounting has taken his third trip to Cancún this quarter. You try to formalize a Time Off Policy via Slack message, it gets buried underneath a mountain of spam, and now Jerry’s off to Cancún again, taking your workplace’s one Adobe password with him. You wouldn’t have this problem if you had Warp. They don’t just handle your startup’s payroll and compliance — Warp also doubles as your org’s one-stop-shop for Time Off, letting founders define their policy and letting employees log time off from directly within the platform. The buck stops here, Jerry.

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