Biden's Pentagon Ban Sparks Fox's Outrage over Press Freedom
Imagine for a moment how Fox News would respond if Joe Biden kicked out critical reporters from the Pentagon—and then did not follow a judge's ruling to let them back in.
Spotify's Taste Profile Puts Users in Recommendation Control
Spotify is testing Taste Profile, a tool similar to Instagram’s Your Algorithm, that shows how the platform interprets a listener’s taste across music, podcasts, and audiobooks. 🎧 You can refine it by requesting more or less of certain content, or sharing...
Ed Sullivan Show Ends After 23-Year Run
📺 March 28, 1971: The final original episode of “The Ed Sullivan Show” aired on CBS. Its featured guests that night were Melanie, Joanna Simon, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass and Sandler and Young. The program had aired for...
NYT's Odd Cultural Coverage Targets Lord & Miller Films
**Yes, the "New York Times" Has Really Weird Cultural Coverage. Why Do You Ask?** As an institution, it seems that it really does not like that my cousin Phil Lord and his partner Chris Miller keep making movies that push back...
Explore X’s Regional Trending Tweets with This Tutorial
Didja know that X (née Twitter) has an area where you can see the most popular tweets by region or language? It's fascinating stuff to explore, as I demonstrate in this tutorial: https://t.co/8o4AIeghYX #x #twitter @X @twitter https://t.co/uBP6jyZL3n
Google Spurned VCG for Complexity and Higher Bids
Google initially rejected the VCG auction design in 2002 because (1) it would be harder for advertisers to understand than GSP and (2) it would likely require them to increase their bids, since it incentivizes truthful bidding. https://t.co/jgf9YOpSZ0
Abby’s Debuts as First Outdoor Multi‑Camera Sitcom
📺 March 28, 2019: “Abby’s” premiered on NBC. The sitcom about an unlicensed backyard bar where those in its neighborhood hung out starred Natalie Morales and Neil Flynn. “Abby’s” is TV’s first multi-camera comedy series to be shot entirely outdoors, wi…...
Empty Station Strategy Solves Rotation Design’s Biggest Challenge
The Empty Station Strategy: Solving the Biggest Challenge in Station Rotation Design 🎧 Now on The Balance. Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/tkEPxrcYSn Spotify: https://t.co/qoU0wMcKLX
Users Will Pay More to Hide YouTube Shorts
I’m a very happy subscriber to YouTube Premium and I’d pay another $5 a month for the option to never see Shorts in my search results or recommendations
New Censorship Laws Will Amplify Surveillance and Big‑tech Dominance
Exactly what she said, and the tech landscape is about to get a billion times worse as we enact mass surveillance and censorship laws that crush competition and allow big tech to consolidate even more power under the guise of...
AI Video, TTS, and Autoresearch Threaten Social Apps
The biggest threat to today’s social media apps is an incredible video model + TTS + autoresearch
UGC Job Ads Demand Endless Hustle, Low Pay
This is my impression of every UGC creator job posting. — We want someone: - funny 😜 - unhinged 👹 - willing to be poorly compensated 💸 - CHRONICALLY online 🤓💻 - hot 🔥😍 - post 50 videos / mo 📈 - viral af💥 This job...
Stop Judging My Screen Time; I’m Overloaded
Can everyone who complains about my “screen time” please start writing my newsletter, filing my freelance stories, editing my videos and podcast episodes, responding to thousands of email and doing my dozens of meetings every week bc I am burned...
FCC Chair Turns Partisan, Threatening Democratic Media Freedom
The FCC Chair is at a partisan conference cheering journalists critical of the administration getting fired and allies buying news networks. The FCC should never be an arm of any political party. That’s how democracy dies.
We Lost the Quiet Lives Before News Became Entertainment
These young women have always existed, and they’re usually pretty happy and normal. Hard to remember this, but there used to be a time where politics and the news cycle wasn’t central to the daily experience. People subscribed to the...
Lost's Spider Bite Twist: Mistaken Death Leads to Live Burial
📺 March 28, 2007: On ABC’s “Lost”, Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro) were both paralyzed by venomous spider bites but were later mistaken to be deceased and thus buried alive by Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Hurley (Jorge Garcia). The...
Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Masks Censorship Agenda
Kat Tenbarge and I discuss the “social media addiction” lawsuit and why the verdict is absolutely not about “holding big tech accountable”, and how media addiction claims are being used to censor annual LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, and all of us....
Seven Scientific Proofs Social Media Harms Users
If you come across someone asserting there is "no scientific evidence" that social media is causing harm, please send them this link. We lay out seven lines of evidence, including RCTs, natural experiments, and testimony from victims &...
Video Ads Out‑earn Print, Thanks to Google’s Monopoly
NYT is a subscription business so it's a much more complex calculus but for every other media company operating on the open web video CPMs blow written CPMs out of the water in part because Google's monopoly on programmatic ads
AI Tends to Deliver Moderate Content, Unlike Extreme Social Media
While social media shows you extreme content, AI is more likely to show people more moderate content This means the technology, on average, could have very different effects on polarization. https://t.co/2MrrG5To8R https://t.co/7xE2wOX8t5
Publishing Paths Vary: No One Method Is Superior
Why is everyone constantly pitting traditional publishing and self-publishing against each other? One is not objectively better than the other – everyone’s path is different and each author’s experience is their own. You’re never going to get a satisfactory answer...
Peter Alexander Shines Sparring with White House Leadership
Few TV journalists are as good as @peteralexandertv . Loved watching him spar with White House leadership
Google Experiments with Whiteboard Animation in NotebookLM
Using NotebookLM? -> Google tests Whiteboard Animation format in NotebookLM (and a new "Short" format) "A standalone whiteboard animation format would likely produce an entirely different video structure, mimicking the hand-drawn, progressively illustrated style that made the RSA Animate series...
YouTube CEO Vows to Curb AI Slop While Empowering Creators
YouTube's CEO about AI slop on the platform in a NYT video interview: Q: You’ve declared war on A.I. slop. But you are also handing creators tools to use A.I. How do you distinguish between a creative A.I....
Paywalls Feel Ridiculous: Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral Exposed
Every time I hit the paywall at Business Insider or Forbes, I have to giggle: Seriously? Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral https://t.co/VJIwbX6r8m
Week's Top Tech Stories: Social Media Trial, Netflix Hikes
ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from the landmark social media addiction trial to more Netflix price hikes https://www.techradar.com/tech/icymi-the-weeks-7-biggest-tech-stories-from-the-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-to-more-netflix-price-hikes
Start Writing Even When Stuck; Ideas Follow
My content creation process, fully honest: Step 1: "I have nothing to say today" Step 2: Open laptop anyway Step 3: Write 4 posts in 20 minutes Step 4: "Where did those come from?" Here's why this keeps working.
Saturday's SportsBiz Highlights: Top Stories Recap
It’s Saturday, which means The Highlight Reel, @Sportico’s recap of the top #SportsBiz stories. Sign up for all our newsletters here: https://t.co/YDv6TFimqx https://t.co/S5TgrWCSVz
Seeking Street‑Savvy UGC Creator, No Agencies Needed
Shooting my shot: Looking for a UGC creator who can do street-level content. Love doing street content. Natural with a camera and banter are much appreciated. Tag your folks. (Not looking for an agency)
Moral Panic over Social Media Addiction Fuels Meta Lobbying
Begging people to stop falling for moral panic “social media addiction” slop that is being used to further Meta’s billion dollar lobbying efforts and enact the Heritage Foundation’s tech policy slate. https://t.co/x5sBmiBcQH
Best Pay‑Per‑View Platforms for Creators Revealed
I tested out pay-per-view sites for creators to find my top video hosting platforms - here's what I found https://t.co/gQS0lKD6uX
Democrats Urged Pai to Probe Sinclair, Then Denied It
Actually, Senate Democrats in 2018 wanted @AjitPai to investigate @WeAreSinclair for news distortion. When @BrendanCarrFCC called them on it at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing last December, people like @SenMarkey, who signed the letter to Pai, pretended that it did...
TikTok Correlates with Mental Health Issues, but No Causation Proven
Key word here: correlates. TikTok usage likely also correlates with wearing baggy jeans. But there have been mountains of peer reviewed studies on social media's affect on mental health, and none have found any meaningful *causal* link. Great piece here:...
PBS/NPR Bias Would Fade with Conservative Newsroom Influx
So @PBS and @NPR are your definition of “independent media?” Media bias is profoundly cultural and much of it would vanish if hundreds of alums of places like @Hillsdale College peopled U.S. newsrooms. @nickshirleyy is also showing what can be...
Reading Defies Evolution; Video Becomes Preferred Learning
Like an appreciation of progress, reading and literacy are among the things that are good but cognitively unnatural. That is, they go against our evolved nature. We didn’t evolve with print; it was a recent invention. Reading, for many of...
Silence on Trump: Where’s the East Wing Coverage?
In all the silence and absence of reporting and censorship of news outlets (not) coming from the US on Trump and things he and his MAGA cronies do, whatever happened to the East Wing? https://t.co/lhF6rpA6l8
Learn Claude Cowork Directly From Its Creator
The best way to learn to use Claude Cowork is from the designer who helped build it. Don't miss my new episode with Jenny this weekend where she shared: → How she uses Cowork at Anthropic → Live demo: From feedback to product...
YouTube Expands ID Age Verification, Limiting Channel Access
Google/YouTube announced they’d start doing ID verification to comply with state “age verification” laws last August, looks like they’re rolling it out more widely in recent days
Fox Debuted “Greg the Bunny” Sitcom in 2002
📺 March 27, 2002: Sitcom “Greg the Bunny,” the tale of an unemployed puppet whose human roommate (Seth Green) gets him a job interview with his father (Eugene Levy), a kids’ show producer, debuted on Fox. It also starred Sarah...
CBS Ratings Plummet: A Complete Catastrophe Exposed
Nellie Bowles mocked our CBS News reporting this week. But there's no other way to describe the network's cratering ratings other than a complete catastrophe. Our response on Power Lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0185sL5Dzy0
David Simon Says Billionaire Owners Lack Capacity to Sustain Journalism
"The Wire" creator David Simon calls out billionaire newspaper owners Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, telling @get_status that they have "no capacity for sustaining journalism" or finding a way to modernize it and help "it survive.”
Get Up to 80% Off Paramount Plus First Two Months
What better way to welcome in the weekend than a Paramount Plus deal that knocks off up to 80% of your first two months. https://t.co/Ej7cpQQOd9
Edit and Publish YouTube Videos in Two Hours
I used to have a content manager to help me edit my YouTube videos. The videos looked great, but the process made me so disconnected from my own content. Now, I record a video and get it edited and scheduled in...
Major Outlets Reveal Journalists Turning to AI Writing
yesterday both WSJ and WIRED published pieces about journalists using AI to write their stories https://t.co/G8CQwY7lRr
SongDNA Reveals Charlie Puth’s Creative Process Behind “Changes”
best part of our SongDNA feature is how it lets fans dive into the amazing creative process & human artistry behind a song. love the new @spotifyforartists video series where artists talk through the songDNA for one of their hits....
AI Speeds Writing, Not the Time‑consuming Reporting
Reporting new info takes time. Writing up the new info does not. Unless it's very complex info in which case the manner in which the info is presented is as important as the reporting part. Unclear what the AI achieves beyond the illusion...
Court Ruling Marks Potential ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment for Big Tech
Could this landmark court ruling be “Big Tech’s ‘Big Tobacco’ moment,” as @sachalouise put it? It certainly sounds like a new chapter for social media platforms regarding accountability and social responsibility. Via @MickeyCarroll0 @SkyNews https://t.co/oAVv0UjrZg
Reddit Posts Get Repurposed by Facebook Farm Accounts
Incredible how I will see a post on the front page of Reddit and then a day or two later the same thing shows up on Facebook from some slop account .. FB is trying so hard to incentivize “original”...
Random Algorithm Exposure Reaches the Audience I Want
I don't know what everyone has been complaining about with the algorithm and the reach. In this experiment there are a ton of people who see a random meaningless tweet of mine and they're the kind of people that I...
Producers Aim Sensitive Portrayal of JFK Jr.'s Fatal Flight
‘Love Story’ Producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson on Tackling Final Episode With JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Fateful Flight: ‘We Didn’t Want to Be Gratuitous’ https://t.co/YJ1lpCYEo8 via @variety