Watch Euphoria Season 3 Online—Free Options Available
Discover what has become of Rue, Cassie, Nate and the rest. Here’s how you can watch Euphoria season 3 online wherever you are and potentially for free. https://t.co/Y6d6QUK4WK
Threads Gains Momentum with Coachella Party and New Features
Threads team is BUSY Of all the Meta platforms, I'm glad this one is getting a chance to shine They hosted a Coachella party They kicked off a digital scavenger hunt with KATSEYE (link below) They pre-announced a new live chat feature, like a...
Write Daily, Publish Publicly, Turn Content Into Sellable Capital
My free guide to building a massive online audience: Write: • 300 words per day • Create with your reader Publish: • Practice in public • Double down on what works Expand: • Turn high-performing topics into longer-form pieces • Turn longer-form pieces into Intellectual Capital you can sell
Audiobooks Costly, Recoup Slowly; Avoid Amazon‑Exclusive Royalty Shares
Author Truth about audiobooks 1. They cost a lot to be made. $200-$600pfh (per finished hour) on average. Depending on your style- single, duet, or dual narration and how many narrators. 2. Unless you already have a midsize following it...
Misinformation Outpaces Truth: Social Media Needs Throttling
Brandolini’s law, also called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, argues that it takes an exponentially greater amount of time, effort, and energy to counter just one piece of misinformation. I'm beginning to really and truly think our society isn't going to survive...
Podcast Prioritizes Bombs Over NASA, Leaving Listeners Disheartened
i was listening to some news podcast and they literally cut off the nasa woman mid-sentence to talk about bombs in iran....and it was v depressing
Adam West Heads Quirky NBC Comedy Post‑Super Bowl
📺 April 11, 1986: Adam West headlined the one-hour comedy “The Last Precinct” which made its time slot premiere on NBC. Its first episode had aired after Super Bowl XX nearly three months prior. The series featured an odd mix...
Calls for Transparency Over YouTube Ban Mystery
super interesting that the most recent video caused the ban? doesn't YouTube still have a 3x policy? It's clearly not actually violence. Could they have traced/confirmed it back to Iran? Could it be the Eminem IP? Deserves transparency.
Grok Wrongly Flags Single Substack Account, Needs Review
This is a terrible rationale by Grok. It needs investigation. 1) I just tried ~12 unique substack accounts using an open dot substack link. Only this super sensitive Julie K Brown is flagged. 2) this is the default share syntax...
Social Media Managers Rebranded as Growth Engineers
They’re calling social media managers “growth engineers” now, she’s 100% spot on with this analysis
Your First Line Must Hook in 1/8 Second
You have 1/8th of a second to stop someone from scrolling past your content. That's it. Your first line is everything. If it doesn't create curiosity, tension, or surprise, nobody reads line two. Write your hook like your business depends on it. Because it does.
Advertiser ID: Weighing Personalized Ads vs Privacy Risks
The more you use your computer, the more personalized the ads become. Helpful, or big privacy problem? Here are the pros and cons of keeping "Advertiser ID" enabled for Windows and MacOS users: https://t.co/2Jztl0woVh #privacy #mac #windows #advertising https://t.co/iNVrslkfb4
UFC Benefits From Masters Lead-Out, Ratings Awaited
There’s two hours of UFC on CBS to benefit from the Masters lead out today. With news in between but still should add a good number of viewers. Interested to see what their TV ratings are tonight.
Millions Tune In for Vatican‑POTUS Showdown Coverage
Somewhere north or south of ten million people will likely tune in at the same this Sunday to watch a highly trusted news brand report on rapidly evolving dynamic between the Vatican and POTUS. Not sure where else this could...
Amazon Seeks to Shift Super Bowl to Streaming
Amazon wants the NFL to sell them the right to take the Super Bowl off of free broadcast TV and put it on Amazon’s streaming service. What do you think ? https://t.co/LZ6A9JmyIV
Algorithms, Not Phones, Drive Youth Unhappiness
My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms...
Altman’s “Incendiary” Label Misfires, Blames Journalism
Exactly. To be fair, I went straight to Altman’s post concerned. And his use of word, “incendiary,” to describe meticulous reporting is careless and wrong but it’s Sims here who ran with it. I see where she works, dots...
China's Magazine Production Capacity May Be Underestimated
Maybe, just maybe, our estimates of China's magazine depth are off. In any case, China can presumably crank up production of these quite rapidly.
Follow This Principle, Achieve Substantial Creator Success
I have never met a creator who followed this principle and was not substantially successful. Search "Nathan Barry Show" to watch. @TintinSmith https://t.co/vKHMWFVbAv
Blaming In-Depth Reporting Undermines Free, Thoughtful Society
Antithetical to a free and thoughtful society to blame meticulous reporting in the New Yorker for someone’s despicable act
No Single AI Will Settle Adversarial Disputes
I will take the other side of this bet, starting with the idea there will be a singular “AI” with a singular answer that will actually be accepted as an arbiter by adversarial parties. This reminds me of more information will...
Check CPM, Attribution, and ROAS Before Tweaking Campaigns
3 things shifted on April 1st that make this week's dashboard the hardest data read of the quarter. Don't touch your campaigns until you've checked all three. > ROAS is down > CPMs are up Don’t panic though… run these checks first: CHECK...
Mark Kerr’s Unfiltered Journey on “What’s Your Story?”
Raw and Uncut with The Smashing Machine, Mark Kerr https://t.co/ZKdt43n52k via our "What's Your Story?" Podcast w/ @MikeLindstrom and I
Instagram Plus Adds Multi‑audience Story Lists for Creators
Instagram confirmed it is testing Instagram Plus, a premium subscription that would include multiple audience lists for Stories beyond Close Friends, rewatch count insights, and the ability to view Stories anonymously. The multi-audience lists feature, which previously appeared for some...
Most of Your New Followers Are Fake Bots
If you are on this list, it explains why you have 10K new followers and 9,972 are bot/fake accounts. https://t.co/YSS3rPZYPW
Netflix Blocks Offline Viewing, Apple TV Lets You Stream
Damn annoying how a subscription service like Netflix deliberately doesn’t support offline mode. Got on a plane, wanted to watch my downloaded series, and could not. Netflix has an A+ eng team, so this is deliberate. But eg Apple TV doesn’t...
Media Uncritically Amplified Iranian Propaganda as Truth
Of course they didn’t but every news outlet published the Iranian propaganda like it was fact.
Joe Kernen’s Poor Preparation Undermines CNBC Journalism Standards
As I have repeatedly written on Twitter (in recent months)... the problem @SquawkCNBC viewers should have with Joe Kernen is not his politics (as that is his own business) - it is his lack of preparation (which causes...
Beyond Paradise Star Eyes Epic BBC Crossover with The Tra
I'm all for BBC shows having an epic crossover episode — and one Beyond Paradise season 4 star has their eye on The Traitors. https://t.co/pLy0JQRFmq
Top Drama Guest Actor Emmy Contenders Revealed
#Emmys Predictions: Guest Actor (Drama) Shawn Hatosy, “The Pitt” Jeff Hiller, “Pluribus” Jonathan Pryce, “Slow Horses” Bill Pullman, “The Boroughs” Jeremy Irons, “The Morning Show” Samba Schutte, “Pluribus” https://t.co/IBYIERvfVt via @variety https://t.co/yaOQjO4ACC
AI‑generated Fact Checks Win Broader, Less Biased Approval
Neat experiment finds AI fact checks are rated as more helpful & less ideological than human ones "LLM-generated Community Notes can achieve broader cross-ideological acceptance than human-written notes, receiving more positive ratings from raters across the political spectrum" https://t.co/Ofg1kYNxYe
Short‑lived 1985 Crime Drama ‘Double Dare’ Aired Six Episodes
📺 April 10, 1985: “Double Dare” debuted on CBS. The crime drama starring Billy Dee Williams and Ken Wahl aired for only six episodes. https://t.co/SLKbikeWrR https://t.co/3HfOIesoVT
We Fuel Negativity; Stop Sharing to Shift Media
Social media propagates negative clickbait BS Not because it's designed to... Because WE as humans reward it It's the same reason that news stations overwhelmingly share negative news Positive news, good nuanced information does not get likes, clicks, shares, or follows If people stopped tolerating...
Apple's MLB Broadcast Impresses with Crisp Visuals, Strong Commentary
Apple is doing a nice job with its MLB production--crisp picture, cool graphics, good commentary--at least judging by tonight's Giants-Orioles game so far.
Shawn Hatosy Poised to Break Guest Drama Emmy Streak
Emmys…paging Dr. Abbot. In the 50-year history of guest acting races, repeat winners are rare, and repeat winners for the same show are even rarer. Notably, no performer has ever won back-to-back guest drama actor for the same role. Shawn Hatosy could...
Shawn Hatosy Poised to Shatter 50‑year Emmy Record
How Shawn Hatosy Could Break a 50-Year Emmy Record With ‘The Pitt’ https://t.co/LEIyNMpqgx via @variety
Genre Labels Slip: Horror Tags Hijack All My Books
I've honestly never seen Hot Wax outside the horror section. On genre positioning, it's hard and sometimes you never win. I write in different genres and one of my problems is everything I do tends to be put in horror then...
NYT Should Probe Athletic Editor’s Misleading Statement
While they're at it, The New York Times should also examine why The Athletic's executive editor put out such a forceful—and possibly misleading—statement not long after the photos were first published.
Aggregates Guide Tests, Brand Data Drives Decisions
Some individual brand illustrations of the relationship between campaign level CPMr and iROAS. Important to always view aggregate data as generally useful and specifically useless. Use aggregates to help you decide which things to test first and then check the data...
NYT Reopens Probe Into Russini’s Vrabel Relationship Claims
NEW @PuckNews: The New York Times is reinvestigating Dianna Russini's claims about her relationship with Mike Vrabel in light of new information/concerns, per sources familiar. Russini will not be reporting during that time. More tonight in In The Room: https://t.co/aUkyssMv7F
AT&T's Pricing Blitz Signals Cable's Metric Demise
.@ATT just declared total war on cable's primary growth engine. Their radical pricing shift proves an immediate need for revenue and signals the death of traditional industry metrics. Here is the competitive reality. 🧵🚨
Fact‑checking Emails Now Cover Even Eye‑rolls
one time I reported that someone had rolled their eyes at something during our interview; before publishing, I included that in a fact-checking email in case they wanted to dispute whether their eyes in fact rolled
Three Must‑See New Releases on Prime and Netflix
Amazon Prime & Netflix Adding 12 New Releases This Weekend: The 3 to Watch https://t.co/Sf4SCVjTp4 via @TVAnswerMan
Billionaires' Media Purchases Outpace Election Ad Spending
This actually enormously understates what the billionaires are spending to buy the elections. Elon Musk spent $40 billion to buy Twitter, the Ellisons spent $13 billion to get CBS. These matter much more for elections than the TV ads.
Miniature Wife: 16‑page Story Turned 10‑hour TV
THE MINIATURE WIFE is chronic prestige tv, a 16-page short story streeeeeeeeeetched to 10 hours https://t.co/UJ7q9tOm8e
Failed Libel Suits Must Impose Hefty Penalties
I hope the FT gets indemnity costs. They must have spent a fortune on this. But even then, it wouldn’t be enough to deter Odey and others like him from trying to silence critics with libel actions. Failed libel actions...
ChatGPT’s $100B Ad Goal Demands Precise Product Discipline
How can ChatGPT reach $100BN in advertising revenue? "If my reverse-engineered input assessments are anywhere near what OpenAI used in its model to project $100BN in annual advertising revenue, then the team faces a formidable challenge, albeit one that is surmountable...
Fear‑mongering AI Content Fuels Creators' Profits
Hyper inflammatory anti-AI content is performing extremely well across the internet, and stoking people's fears by making AI seem extra evil only results in more profit for the content creator/slop article producer. There are so many ppl creating this content...
Three Fresh Artists Join Tonight’s Capital XTRA Show
Got 3 very dope artists joining me on the show tonight: @tkandz_ @Blademusic @DeeRiginal Tap in from 9pm @CapitalXTRA 💫 https://t.co/3GTe2WbJcz
Live CEO Interviews From Raymond James Biotech Symposium
Programming note: On Tuesday of next week I'll be broadcasting @BiotechTV interviews from the Raymond James Biotech Symposium in New York. Current confirmed CEO interviews: $SEPN $AKBA $WVE $VERA $DYN $KRRO (and maybe more). Let me know any questions for...