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This is likely outdated by now (from Nov) but interesting nonetheless.

Surprised that The White Lotus changed their theme song.

A very weird thing on LinkedIn is some industry folks celebrating R/GA’s impending sale to PE as “escaping the clutches of an advertising holding company.” As if it will be good for creativity?

Yet another example of senior advertising execs lacking business acumen.

Even if there ends up being a winner takes most (like Google w search, or Netflix with streaming) or a sort of duopoly (like the airline biz), the only way the winner(s) can continue to show growth in the long term is via capturing attention and converting that to ad revenue.

Going to come back to this tweet in a few years to see if it holds true: when all is said and done, from a revenue perspective the AI wars will boil down to a fight for ad revenue. In the same way that the decade+ long streaming wars are now chasing ad revenue.

Once again I am reminded that United Arrows exists, and once again I am sad that they don’t sell outside of Japan.

Today I learned two things: there's a comet that might hit Earth in a few years, and apparently half the internet sees this as good news.

We should probably talk about that.

Fun! Thanks for sharing.

The Super Bowl is a great reminder that advertising is the oil for our capitalist machine.

$8M / 30 seconds to an estimated 120M viewers (though I’m always excited to see the scrappy brands that do local spots).

Some podcasts have an addictive quality similar to social media, just w/ different engineering. It's pretty impressive how podcast consumption went from a relatively niche behavior to swaying an election, in about ~12 years flat.

Too many people rely on podcasts as primary sources of information. Achieves the effect of only reading the op-ed sections of newspapers. A slightly more extreme version of only watching the same cable news network.

It's always the non-members who are quick to talk shit.

Nothing personal, just an observation.

are you a member?

A Private Club’s Very Public Problems Soho House faces feuding billionaires, a takeover offer and complaints about waiting ages to order a drink

WSJ: A Private Club’s Very Public Problem

"Soho House faces feuding billionaires, a takeover offer and complaints about waiting ages to order a drink"

"ThirdPoint hedge fund founder Dan Loeb... has a 10% stake and is pushing for new leadership and a high takeover bid..

www.wsj.com/business/soh...

SXSW 2025 Backchannel Telegram Application Entering your information will enter you into consideration for inclusion into a private, SXSW 2025-specific Telegram group of industry operators across brand, agency, investment, and the startup ecos...

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Spinning up another Backchannel Telegram group for anyone planning to go to SXSW 2025.

We had 100+ last year, and the Basel one was pretty fun. iykyk.

L i n k below.

DMed!

Merry Christmas!
- from Palantir

They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war.

Thinking about this quote a lot recently.

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Bueno.

Last Breakfast Club LA (east side/best side) of the year this Thursday 🍳

The NFL just stole Christmas from the NBA and Adam Silver is talking about making a new league in Europe lol.

Can’t even make it up 😂

If we are Twitter mutuals, can you please comment on this post so that I can make sure to follow you here?

(h/t @kristy.bsky.social for the inspo)

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

This is brilliant
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

I need to know if this is all part of some coordinated soft power effort by the Church. And if so, I want to know which agencies are involved at the top. Does the Pope sign off on the cultural strategy? Is this all leading up to something bigger? 🧐

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