I guess I’ve made it now. I got a partnership offer.
Dropping you a line because we’ve been looking closely at a select group of creators to bring into the fold for the rest of 2026. Your page jumped out at us – especially how you capture the culture around pushing boundaries and living boldly.
Nothing about it feels corporate or safe – and that’s what we need when we’re considering brand fit.
We’re not interested in a quick send-and-forget partnership – we’re aiming for something that gives you wings to do what you do best.
Want to learn more? Reply and I’ll walk you through the details. This time of year tends to move fast, so didn’t want to wait too long to connect.
Appreciate you reading this, pzmyers.
It was from Red Bull. I’m flattered by the “pushing boundaries and living boldly” comment, but no, just no. Part of my “living boldly” ethos involves rejecting corporate influence.
Also, I’ve never had so much as a sip of Red Bull, so it would be dishonest of me to promote it.
Oh my god, they’re giving the reigns of their advertising over to inference models.
Pardon me while I cackle & cry & shit all at once. Becuz adverts online are going to get a lot funnier, grosser, & exhausting in the next few years as the Web 2.0 paradigm starts pouring money into the machine that destroys value. Not only in terms of open slop, but in the decision-making process.
I’m kinda surprised they didn’t spell it “wiiiings”…
Looks like you haven’t sold out to anyone else yet, how ’bout this corporation?
Folks seeking out unsafe people to associate with, are not folks worth associating with.
They’re recruiting you to run their “energy drink” ads!? How funny. The phrasing seems remarkably similar to what I get from recruiters off my LinkedIn profile. They’re always offering me great opportunities and want to talk. I’m retired now…finally…so I just ignore them. Perhaps recruiters are required to take a class in writing insipidly upbeat drivel.
“This time of year tends to move fast” – Is that why they are called the dog days of summer?
robro@4: “Perhaps recruiters are required to take a class in writing insipidly upbeat drivel.”
I doubt that they would ever stoop to taking an “educational” class. I suspect that it is more likely they all have seen the same flyer from a moronic “think tank” pretending to be marketing experts. Or possibly even worse, a “motivational speaker” spouting their BS. I’ve seen some come back from the latter, and they were so glassy eyed that I wondered if they had been hypnotized or slipped some drugs. As an astronomer said decades ago:
“If you start to show someone how to destroy their own power of reason, some will eagerly finish the job on their own.”
Marketing people are human parasites, just look and listen to the ads on commercial TV. Aimed directly at the feeble-minded, and peddling junk products (like dietary supplements, ineffective drugs, etc.), that they insist you should need to have and use.
What PZ received is a form letter that has been “personalized” by a machine. I get at least one of these per week in the mail. It is always a “special offer”, just for me, and while also saying that others in my neighborhood are using this, so I need to as well.
PS: I forgot to mention that at every technical company that I have ever worked for, their marketing departments were always infested with the very worst people, some of which I considered to be quite insane. It was literally impossible to carry on a rational conversation with them, much like the MAGAts are now. Obvious contradictions in their speech remained undetected, even after you clearly pointed them out. These are the morons who cannot connect the dots correctly, even if you numbered them.
It’s all written by LLMs these days, and I’d bet a fairly substantial sum that that Red Bull pitch was too.
It’s remarkably unpleasant.
May I suggest that you should check the sender’s address. I have had a lot of literally incredible offers from a domain ending in ‘infinity.io. Bogus as nine bob note. I don’t suppose that it that particular lot but…
Give them some credit, they spelled “myers” correctly.
Sounds like a cross between a horoscope and an infomercial. Starts with generic flattery to soften up your ego’s rational defenses and ends with the classic, “Act now! Space is limited and this offer won’t last!” pitch.
“we’re aiming for something that gives you wings to do what you do best.”
just think of the spiders you’ll collect!
I think wings would greatly complicate navigating through my web.
Now I have an image of PZ flying off a fjord cliff with a parachute made of spiders.
Taurine is a good addition for cats, as they cannot produce it themselves but must normally get it by eating meat.
So if you are planning to put the Evil Cat on a veggie diet, uou could try pouring red bull on a saucer.
zetopan @ # 7: … marketing departments were always infested with the very worst people…
Which reminds me of a friend who graduated from a major university’s journalism school over a decade ago, who spoke of her former classmates as the most incurious people she had ever met. Uncoincidentally, not long before she enrolled, that university had merged their journalism, PR, and marketing programs…
Birger, I know you were making a funny, but…
(https://www.organicauthority.com/energetic-health/energy-drink-breakdown-whats-in-a-red-bull-anyway)
and
Caffeine poisoning occurs when cats ingest products containing caffeine, such as coffee, tea, energy drinks, diet pills or certain medications. Caffeine is often found alongside a related chemical called theobromine, especially in chocolate. Both are powerful stimulants that affect the heart, brain, and nervous system. Symptoms can develop quickly and require urgent veterinary care. Call a vet immediately if you’re worried your cat has eaten something with caffeine.
https://www.joiipetcare.com/blogs/poisons/caffeine-poisoning-in-cats
John Morales @17. Oddly, when we had a cat she liked coffee. She would get very excited at the smell of freshly brewed coffee but not instant coffee. We’d dilute it with milk and she’d lap it up eagerly.
submoron, ours goes berserk around bleach. Frisky writhings and happiness.
(funny felines)
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But yes, of course the dose makes the poison. But still.
John Morales. My father was fond of dogs but refused to believe that Theobromine was dangerous for them. I told him repeatedly but despite the fact that I was an analyst in pharmaceutical laboratories he was sure that he was right even though his knowledge was in a very different sphere.
To be fair “red bull” does sound like how magas would describe Pharyngula. X-D
@ ^ Silentbob : Actually, I think they’d be more likely to call it “blue bull” given the USoA’s weird reversal of the usual red = left wing, blue = reichwing symbolic colours.
Tastes nasty.
Been boycotting Red Bull since their F1 team screwed over Mark Webber – repeatedly. Then did the same to Danny Ric with the “cursed second car” altho was already boycotting them then anyhow. Dunno about the company but that old Christian Horner Racing team was certainly bloody awful to almost all their drivers with a couple of preferred excessively favoured exceptions.
Also yeah, tastes pretty shit too from memory.
PS. Kinda double posted but hopefully (checks again) yeah this time this comment is on theright thread here.
#17 John Morales
Your first cited source says ‘about half of other soft drinks’. Coke 20oz has around 68mg (maybe) , so 27-ish for 8 oz which is not twice Red Bull, and is also not “one half of Red Bull because your source can’t grammar and/or math properly”.
That said, it was hard to cut through the gibberish. There was some not substantiated variations spilled across the internetz about how much caffeine coke has and coffee has per ounce. Technically correct is the best kind of correct, so it is sad that I am guessing.