🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-12-06
Meta Phoenix falling behind
Friday is for burying news you hope people ignore or sleep through entirely. This Friday night, one story caught my eye like a fictional fiery flying creature soaring into the slow news day journalism night sky.
Meta’s mixed reality glasses project, “Phoenix”, is rising from the ashes not yet rising from the ashes, per a “leaked” memo. The timing of this leak avoids any immediate stock hit to the recent bump and misses the window for any of the weekend long-form think-pieces about Meta’s other burning metaverse cash pile corrections.
76 weeks and the future of Hot Fudge Daily
Also, as a side note, today marks 76 weeks of the Hot Fudge Daily format. Next week, I’ll be starting a brand new format. I’m excited to flip the script a bit. Thank you for subscribing and reading!
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