earnestpettie.com
Internet trends by day. Also internet trends by night. Trends Insights Lead @ YouTube
Mastodon @[email protected] but relatively quiet
On Twitter @earnestp. I've been silent there for almost a year.
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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.
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This gives me hope for the future!
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Going to start saying "I don't have enough RAM for this" when confronted by a situation I don't want to deal with.
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Ruthless passive aggression
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I had the exact same thought. And then zero follow-through!
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Would you find it preferable for "creatives" to be multi-hyphenates to describe each discipline they are using in their practice?
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From double entries to double entendres
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Myspace had it!
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Ike Drop (the M)
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This is one of those things that I'm sad has faded from the public's consciousness.
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Seems like I was ahead of the curve by never hanging out with my friends in high school! #trendsetter
This is related to something I was thinking about recently, which is how the nature of how we relate to each other is changing. earnestpettie.com/essays/is-ev...
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I loved The Rock's outfit being a nod to previous Rock runs. The Versace corporate era and the black vest Hollywood era.
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Now it's very easy to (kind of) make a doll of yourself, but back in the 90s, that would've seemed so far-fetched. That was just for the Vanilla Ices of the world.
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Definitely! It was visually exciting, people were floating in the air, and there was an accidental pregnancy reveal!
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When Yahoo bought Tumblr, my dream was Yahoo Directory applied to Tumblr
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I think it's definitely fair to feel that way. I feel afraid that this is going to permanently entrench a small number of people and companies, and they have every incentive to appear thoughtful while amassing power.
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I find language like "hallucinations" to be much more problematic because there's an unnecessary anthropomorphizing that happens with that language that is purely marketing and pr.
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I get the co-opting of the term being distasteful, but I don't think that obviates the training that is occurring. I think the ability to build a statistical model and apply those statistical likelihoods based on ever changing criteria is reflective of training and intelligence - just not sentience.
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Why do you think it's incorrect?
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True, but that's also clearly labeled as a sponsored post.
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Pocket is owned by Mozilla, too. It's essentially a bundled tool. I can see arguments against bundling, but this has serious "you gonna be angry at breakfast?" vibes.
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If MTV aired the Redman Cribs on repeat instead of Ridiculousness, I'd probably tune in a few times a week.
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Also this is the first of my Rough Draft newsletters. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll get these short essays from my site via email (the regular blog posts don't get sent in the newsletter)
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Their underlying premise is also inherently false. Censoring Nazi views from their platform doesn't make the problem worse, allowing those ideas to metastasize and spread to people unprepared to handle them (or prepared to handle them with an inclination towards them) makes it worse.
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This is a fave! The frank and earnest line at the end should be considered a Samuel L. Jackson classic.