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i think this was / is a moment on tiktok / reels of people performing short scenes from a version of seinfeld set in the 2020s but none of 'em hold a candle to this account. no frills, no impressions, just notes app screenshots of full episode pitches that both capture the spirit of the show + the current zeitgeist flawlessly
Apr 1, 2024
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I'm usually so anti-instagram comedy and loathe reels but every once in a while you find a really good one. I binged all of his stuff and it cheered me right up. Perfect balance of earnest and "edgy." Very human comedy
Sep 22, 2024
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this is modern day asceticism btw
May 15, 2024
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The way that tiktok as changed everyother social media is insane. I think consuming short videos started with vines, and then it lead to the creation of musically and it's transformation to its final form... tiktok 😰(haha). Now every app as its own place for 10 second videos, Youtube as Shorts and Instagram as Reels. But is it really necessary?
I just wish there was a way where i could take reels of my instagram explore page.
Feb 17, 2025
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
