[Mashimo]

> Tools For Humanity is actually partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars on their 2027 European tour. While TFH has not disclosed the actual reason for the false Bruno Mars announcement, it looks a bit like a case of mistaken identity. Pretty ironic, since the company’s whole shtick is supposedly verifying human identities.

:)

[oersted]

Quite reminiscent of the "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" debacle :)

[appplication]

That was like living out and episode of Arrested Development in real time. I have a hard time recalling it without mentally casting Jeffrey Tambor as Rudy Giuliani.

[EGreg]

Wow! Yes it does sound exactly like that. Reality really can be stranger than fiction

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping...

Thanks, I hadn't heard of that.

[semiquaver]

How could this mixup possibly lead to the head of product announcing a Bruno Mars collaboration on stage???

I’m trying to imagine the series of events that could lead to this happening and I’m coming up woefully short.

[mattas]

This really sounds like an AI voice agent transcribed "Thirty Seconds to Mars" to "30 seconds for Bruno Mars" and then no one actually proof-read the thing.

[Mashimo]

Probably like the children game "Broken Telephone" or "Gossip" where after a long chain of word of mouth input does no longer match output. Sprinkle communication between different companies on top of that.

Thirty Seconds to Mars -> "The Mars band" -> ?? -> Bruno Mars

[cowsandmilk]

I routinely have to correct product managers repeatedly on key details of how their products work and how their customers operate so this doesn’t surprise me at all. It is totally a mistake I could see a product management director having been corrected on a dozen times but they keep making it.

[RobRivera]

I have to ask you for coaching advice here, as I may or may not be experiencing similar things. Does the correction impact your political capital? I am a firm believer in critique in private, but in key meetings where capabilities are the inputs to other discussion, it is difficult to bite my tongue

[konschubert]

Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

[alqpejfjfb]

It’s hard to spin it as a mixup when both acts were announced at the event.

[sophacles]

It's a simple tale, one as old as time - the religious scammers started believing their lies and drank the kool-aid.

[danesparza]

Actually, they are partnering with "The Martian" book tour. They're brining it back, baby!

[RobRivera]

Shrimp and all