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michaelmiraflor.bsky.social
strategy/marketing/ads/brands/trends/venture. art. culture. music. travel. retail. fashion. tech. Berkeley & Berlin School alum. retired DJ. views are mine only. 🇵🇭🇺🇸 (i'm still a lot more active on Twitter. same handle)
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This is likely outdated by now (from Nov) but interesting nonetheless.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Surprised that The White Lotus changed their theme song.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

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).

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Christmas! - from Palantir

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Thinking about this quote a lot recently.

submitted 94 days ago • 10 comments

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/

submitted 86 days ago • 200 comments

Bueno.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

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 😂

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

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)

submitted 118 days ago • 20 comments

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

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

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? 🧐

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

🤣

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?” 2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”

submitted 120 days ago • 203 comments

Well I guess I’m posting here now, too 🤷🏽‍♂️

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

How will Bluesky not follow the pattern of becoming hot garbage once it is open and available to everyone?

submitted 682 days ago • 1 comment

Folks who have maintained a Twitter account: Are you mirroring your posts? Or keeping everything separate?

submitted 693 days ago • 2 comments

just setting up my bsky

submitted 701 days ago • 2 comments