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Tag: social

  • get rid of that crap blocking your YouTube shorts

    YouTube is also introducing a new “Clear Screen mode,” which is designed to temporarily hide “all icons and text from your playback view,” giving users a clean view of their content unencumbered by floating distractions. 🔗 YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

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  • Don’t expect results from TikTok

    That is incredibly hard work. And most of the people who work really hard at it don’t get lucky and just peter out. And even the ones who do get lucky. They peter out too. It’s too hard. 🔗 I posted to TikTok every day for a year and I learned nothing

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  • 90 minutes of hell is other people

    This feels like me: NEWMARK: I guess, ideally, I would have more social skills—meaning, some. COWEN: We’re simulating social skills just fine here. NEWMARK: That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery. I can do it for short amounts of time, maybe 90 minutes. I’ve…

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  • Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States

    Social stuff: ‘Maybe this is the most important result: since 1976 there has not been much divergence between liberal and conservative attitudes toward civil liberties or law enforcement. The divergence on government spending is noticeable but not enormous (see p.39). the divergence on “Marriage, Sex, Abortion” is quite large. In another words, the true polarization…

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  • Industry analyst

    The new industry analysts, again

    Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new crop of IT industry analysts who end up getting compared incorrectly to journalists. It’s little wonder as most people have little idea what an industry analyst does; it’s not like analysts, hidden behind their austere paywalls, help much there.…

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