Earnest Pettie

What is social media, and what is the distinction, if any, between social media and social network sites/apps? I just want to see if there is consensus.

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This is the first in a series I've written on cultural relevance. I'm just trying to arrange the puzzle pieces we all see into one coherent picture.

There’s a loneliness epidemic because a whole generation has grown up without Tom from Myspace automatically being their friend.

Cliches aren’t born; they develop from the abuse of repetition. I think that the speed and scale at which generative AI works will likely send certain phrases and constructs speeding into their second lives as cliches faster than we’ve ever experienced. The em-dash…

My theory. All the people in the drug ads you see on TV exist in the same world. They’re in a horrible Truman Show style environment where they are being coerced into demonstrating positive effects of the drugs. They can’t not smile or they get moved to “the…

The Studbudz All-Star weekend stream is better than any sports-related programming I’ve ever seen, including F1: Drive to Survive. They should win every kind of Emmy, including daytime and regional.

The white pages would be wild to a young person. A book with everyone’s phone numbers AND addresses that you had to pay EXTRA to be excluded from.

Someone is here farming for responses they can post to X to demonstrate "the left's" incivility and X's "superiority".

YouTube’s 20th continues with a trends report we released today. Some parts of this story will be very familiar, but I think you’ll find surprises in the data. https://www.youtube.com/trends/report/tr25-20th-birthday/

These days we read videos, listen to books, and watch podcasts.

This Amerie tiny desk was a breath of fresh air. Ruby Ibarra and Amerie in one week of each other? They are basically my YouTube Music algorithm! https://youtu.be/8PizSSUfetg

Sports records today: First to reach 20 points, 20 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 blocks, 7 sips of water, and 5 reactions that became memes in a game while averaging 80% free throw shooting.

Twitter/X is such a grim place. It’s what I imagine New York City was like in the late 70s/early 80s.

Two older musical acts whose new music I will still immediately click on: Young MC and Papa Roach.

I wonder whether Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian are thinking about the real corrosive influence on link-sharing communities: companies. Once a site becomes a sure source of traffic, companies immediately dream of ways to exploit it.…

How did Bubble Boy never become a cult classic?

My entire life, I’ve heard “markets crave certainty.” If that’s the case, though, how do you explain the markets during this administration?

I highly recommend this reconsideration of algorithmic recommendation systems. I love how it avoids the knee-jerk “algorithms are bad” stance https://dynomight.substack.com/p/ranking

I am going to start a Hackerscore aesthetic based on 1995’s Hackers, which I just learned is now officially on YouTube for free. https://youtu.be/5T_CqqjOPDc

I am interested in whatever this show was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKeQ_-gwFvs

Do you ever think about the fact that price of home release of movies, music, and video games have remained relatively stable for decades? It reminds me of Coca Cola being 5 cents for about 50 years.

I was making some updates to my site today and finally removed my old Facebook & Twitter/X social links. End of an era.

Now that Surf exists, it makes me wish everyone were on the Fediverse just for my convenience of being able to reply in-app. I highly recommend this app https://about.flipboard.com/press/announcing-surf-the-first-browser-for-the-open-social-web/

I recommend not trying to read all the emails you missed! If people have something urgent for you, they'll email again now that you're back.

This gives me hope for the future!

I just accidentally shared a nod “hello” with someone in this office that I DEFINITELY don’t know. I guess I’m locked into nodding to this person for the rest of my life, now.

Going to start saying "I don't have enough RAM for this" when confronted by a situation I don't want to deal with.

Ruthless passive aggression

I had the exact same thought. And then zero follow-through!