Thought the name seems familiar: Jake Adelstein got his 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice turned into a (fun to watch, apparently very dramatized, though that was already criticized for the memoirs) 2 season HBO series in 2022.
The newspaper he apparently worked in stated that he was never part of the reporting teams for organized crime and had written only a very few articles about the yakuza during his time there.
He got called out several times about his stories so I wouldn't be surprised if he's making stuff up again.
The book is far more interesting than the drama. In fact I'd go so far to say that the drama has really nothing much to do with the book besides the title and some superficial characters.
My wife is black and has sensitive skin. She once tried zinc oxide sunscreen. If one wants to be protected from the sun while cosplaying as purple monster, it's a great choice.
This truly is the biggest drawbacks. It's almost impossible to make zinc sunscreen see-through. One technique is to micronize the zinc but this comes with its own set of risks including skin penetration and environmental risks that micronized zinc can pose to aquatic life.
I think the only solution is to embrace it. There isn't really a 100% safe sunscreen that is also invisible
I also have first.last@gmail.com (which I don’t use anymore, and just keep around), I get all kinds of private mails. Contracts, invoices, confidential material, private photos.
And of course, also automated signup mails, newsletters (which I make sure to block and report as spam, unsubscribing is a feature for newsletters that are opt-in), transactional mails etc.
People really suck at knowing what their e-mail is. The private mails are down to 1/month, the others to ~3/week, but it used to be much higher for both categories.
Oh and of course there is some kind of weird scam going on where spammers on German classifieds (Kleinanzeigen) send an e-mail to firstlast@gmail.com for whatever public first and last name of the lister is, and ask if the product is still available. No link, nothing. And all sent via gmail which has by an overwhelming majority become the biggest sender of spam for me. I guess they are trying to get someone to reply and then do some manual scam or something.
The look only seems minimal as well. I need to zoom in to read, which eventually destroys the layout. A minimal website has at least basic accessibility by default, this uses some kind of "modern" styling stuff to ruin it.
> I know traditional ad banners don't perform all that well
I’m not sure that’s always true. We have our own homegrown adserver that’s almost 100% context based (a few ads for stores do rudimentary IP geo-targeting, all purely first-party though), and it does well with both banners and text based ads. It’s in the digital photography niche. I’d assume generally places that are strongly oriented towards a niche can do a lot with context based advertisment. CTR is much better than for Google ads (that we also run).
Yeah, I think publishers/advertisers are actually leaving money on the table by using Google ads instead of bespoke targeted ads from direct sponsors. It's a lot harder to manage ads without Google doing all the work, but they're better for readers and advertisers if there's a human with good taste and judgement in the loop.
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