Tim O'Reilly
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Tim O'Reilly
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"Can you accept that you're both an intellectual and a psychic?" - online tarot

“It’s weird seeing people just chilling without their phones” High school in 2000s:

This is why the shift to everyone hating each other has been so hard for millennials. Many of us went to diverse schools where everyone basically got along. Sure, jokes were made & bad people existed, but there was a general code of respect. Social media + rage bait ruined that

the ACTUAL pyramid of pop music


This entire trend was kicked off by eliza mclamb on substack but she never gets lead credit and has her words and intent misinterpreted to hell every time one of these is written.

The Oscars' New Inclusion Rules Wouldn't Disqualify Any Best Picture Nominee in History. So Why Is Elon Musk Melting Down Over 'The Odyssey'? variety.com/2026/film/awar…

New York/NY Mag is launching a standalone mens style issue with Sam Hine (GQ) — a first of its kind for New York Though Women’s market is a beast, it does feel like brands/publishers are lately more curious on Men’s/Menswear and how best to capitalize Article clips from his IG:


tired of queer cinema always being abt white people

Girl who thinks cotton is a good fabric to workout in




They’re calling Ulysses and Beloved overrated and pretentious…. God send the rapture


Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N




