#showmanship — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #showmanship, aggregated by home.social.
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"We may no longer be a epistemologically literate society any more but #books still have value to enough of us for them to still be a business. However, the problem lies in finding ways to promote & sell because #microblogging only lends itself to promoting texts & creators that have a strong element of #showmanship.
I am pondering whether, again paradoxically, video & podcasts might not lend themselves better to promoting and selling books than newsletters and blogs."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2024/interim-3/ -
"It is also a classic Trumpy long con, the essential Trumpworld business practice. In every way, it is the essence of Trumpism, a textbook example of how the fake businessman’s businesses operate, all empty gilded shells, branding over substance, entities that, once established, operate like pyramid schemes run by Mafiosi, attracting get-rich-quick sharps whose base instincts are only held in check by threats of blackmail and revenge."
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Nina Burleigh comments on the acquisition of Trump Media & Technology Group yesterday, making him some 3 billion richer on paper:
"This is the deus ex machina - the hand of a god - coming down from above to save Trump just as New York State prepares to seize his properties for nonpayment of a nearly half-billion dollar bond."
#Trump #wealth #crime #debt #bond #grift #showmanship
/1https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/the-half-billion-dollar-man-part
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"All waiters have their secret arsenal of stale humor to deploy when they need to butter up the crowd. As the caramel sauce begins to bubble, I pour the rum over it, gently tipping the rim of the saute pan forward to allow the fire to contact the liquid. Flames shoot skyward, casting a soft, amber glow around the table."
https://www.eater.com/23893292/tableside-presentation-flambee-confessions-fine-dining
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“All labor is skilled labor”
I do want to note, that this is clearly the guy kind of just having fun and putting a little showmanship into it.
but damn, that must be perfectly buttered popcorn. I would not have to ask them to put more in (like I always do).
#Popcorn #Showmanship(h/t: https://twitter.com/bornakang/status/1609400550457761799?s=46&t=fv_HS6bW52f4vNM1LOiHiQ)