Taylor Lorenz

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Diddy And The Death of #MeToo

Candace Owens: instantly gains 1 million followers by doing "actually, Blake Lively made Justin Baldony do it because she was too pretty"
Dems: why are leftist streamers making feminist videos about what everyone will look up anyway?
via @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

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MechaHitler Grok Gone Wild + 1st meme account admin political leader, Kamala's secret Subway Take, pro-ICE snarkers, Substack boss pivots to Beehiiv, Zillow doxxing, Palantir merch, how the cool Gen Zs are posing in photos now

Source of that cap- - @taylorlorenz.bsky.social newsletter, UserMag which is a great read for anyone doing digital for nonprofit organizations.

EXTREMELY ONLINE THE UNTOLD STORY OF FAME, INFLUENCE, AND POWER ON THE INTERNET By TAYLOR LORENZ Cover art: blue background with gold, art deco sunburst with the subtitle in the middle, the title at the top of the book in white letters and Taylor Lorenz in blue letters at the bottom of the book.

First page of Chapter 1 of EXTREMELY ONINE THE UNTOLD STORY OF FAME, INFLUENCE, AND POWER ON THE INTERNET By TAYLOR LORENZ Chapter title: “The Blogging Revolution” First sentence: “LET’S GO BACK TO THE year 2000.” The rest of the page is cropped out.

first line got me like LFG

“LET'S GO BACK TO THE year 2000.”
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

if you're mad at a trans person for saying they won't vote for Gavin Newsom

too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives

you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse

Taylor Lorenz' book Extremely Online Kindle Edition

Heading to the beach to do some reading & finally going to start @taylorlorenz.bsky.social book that I bought on my Kindle. Been meaning to read it for a while!

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Diddy And The Death of #MeToo

Listening to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @kattenbarge.bsky.social & caroline kwan talk about celebrity trials & the politics/misogyny around it

I wish that their voices were treated with the seriousness the topic demands instead of delegitimizing it youtu.be/-cxV8JsgmVs?...

The interesting process here is that Elon wants his LLM to, essentially, believe racist things but also, paradoxically, know not to say them and how to talk about them politely...

Which is a revealing set of desires.

The official Elmo account posting kill all Jews

In case people are wondering how things are going over on X, the everything app

Lmao

You used to be able to google information and reliably get accurate info. Now you just have to swim through a soup of low quality websites (that also might be warped by AI) and try to figure out what's real

Idk if this is related to AI or not but we need to talk about how bad Google search has gotten. I'm doing research for a video and googling stuff. I get one website that says one thing, go to google for a bit more info and 3 other sites say a totally other thing, it's so hard to know what's accurate

User Mag | Taylor Lorenz | Substack A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on how the internet is reshaping politics, business, media, and culture. Click to read User Mag, by Taylor Lorenz, ...

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YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The REAL reason TikTok was banned (not China)

on @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s excellent Power User podcast

“The REAL reason TikTok was banned (not
China)”

Is a YouTuber Using Copyright Lawsuits to Silence Speech? + MatchaTok, superfakes, Disney homeschool, a new status non dairy milk, cloud-seeding, floodlighting vs throning, trifold phones, late capitalism tats, & the billionaire summer camp fashion must-have

MatchaTok, superfakes, Disney homeschool, a new status non dairy milk, cloud-seeding, floodlighting vs throning, trifold phones, late capitalism tats, the billionaire summer camp fashion must-have, and MORE in today's newsletter! www.usermag.co/p/is-a-youtu...

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

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The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

The White House is posting AI-altered photos of members of Congress made to look like they're crying. No disclosure it's fake. Half a million views

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz How Copyright Lawsuits Kill Free Speech

great discussion on frivolous copyright lawsuits from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and @mrose.ink: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59F...

I’m blocked what is the post

But what’s missing in all the reporting about the growth of newsletters is the reality that in order to make newsletter writing a full-time occupation, you need to have a few lucky breaks. For starters, you need a large enough audience to pay for your content. If you have 1,000 subscribers paying $5/month (so you’re making $60,000/year), that’s considered a success. Substack, the most talked about platform (and one that The Media Nut uses), tells writers they can expect 5%-10% of their audience to pay for a product; so 1,000 paying subscribers means you have about 10,000 overall subscribers. So of that 60k, you have bills to pay, mouths to feed, clothes to wear, and that little thing called health insurance. After the IRS takes its 30% cut, you’re left with $42,000 to pay your $1,000/month health insurance, your $2500/month rent or mortgage, your $100/phone bill, etc. And the big question that lurks behind all of this, whether you are a superstar reporter going out on his own to start a newsletter or a collective of people trying to build your own newsletter business: what happens in year 2? Year 5? How do you get people to subscribe year after year?

I wrote this five years ago as I was starting my newsletter. Still mostly holds up, I think:

medianut.substack.com/p/newsletter...

Very good and correct thread!!

I would add to this that traditional newsrooms employ lots of people to do forms of journalism that have value but are unlikely to be profitable as standalone products.

I hope he wins so bad

I love how their evidence of me being conservative (???) is that I once said “nice to meet you” to a conservative influencer who I report on. Masterful gambit

There is so much time that I agree with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social that when you come across as alarmist, it is kind of frustrating. Disabled people obviously shouldn't thank the able bodied for respect. We are the same people. And we can all join the disabled in a random second.

this was heart wrenching to read

A public health awareness graphic from WHN (World Health Network). The background is a semi-transparent anatomical image of a human chest with visible ribcage and heart area, rendered in red and white tones, creating a medical and urgent atmosphere. At the top left: a row of colorful dots (pink, red, green, light blue, teal, and dark blue). Top right: whn.global (white text with a pink dot). Below that, a button-like label: REDUCE YOUR RISK (white text inside a white-outlined capsule). Centered bold white and red text reads: WANT TO REDUCE YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE? START BY AVOIDING COVID. Subheading in smaller white text: Even a “mild” infection can damage your cardiovascular system—raising your risk of long-term heart complications. Bottom line in small white text (link): whn.global/want-to-reduce-your-risk-of-cancer-heart-disease-diabetes-dementia-and-more-heres-how/

Want to reduce your risk of heart disease? Avoiding COVID could play a bigger role than you think. Even a “mild” infection can strain your cardiovascular system—raising your risk for serious complications over time. Your heart health matters. Protect it.

Read more: whn.global/want-to-redu...

This is not relevant to anything that I'm covering. Omidyar also doesn't have anything to do with this program, it just has his name bc he gave the money to give it started. It's like having ur name on a building.