Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to populate Facebook and Instagram with AI-created “members”. Oh joy. From Rolling Stone. (4 clicks to get through the ads.)
Author: tokyokevin
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Teen Use of Social Media in the US
Bryan Alexander has been watching teens and universities and how they use technology. Here is his latest update on social media.
I’m guessing hte federated media (Mastadon and Bluesky mostly) are too small to figure here. Hopefully that will change.
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Word Quiz
NYTimes (gift article) checks your knowledge of current words that are popular. A good example of a quiz working as a learning tool. I got 6 out of 10, which I consider pretty good. I especially liked the new meanings of “preppy” and “Ohio”.
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Nolan is Doing The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan is teaming up with Homer on the best action story of the last 3,000 years. Read about it at Kottke. (Illustration mine).
Christopher Nolan is known for directing some of our most important films like Tenet, Inception, Interstellar, Oppenheimer and a bunch of Batmans. I couldn’t hink of a better match. Out mid-2026.
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Words of Culture, Culture of Words
Nowhere better can you find the nuances of culture than in the words that are used. Nancy Friedman tracks those at Fritinancy. This year we get a bonus, wordS, not just word.
My favorite: The Fall of the Broman Empire, on the X-odus of people from Musk’s vanity website. Others include 4B (from Korea), Debank, social tonic (laced with THC), Pretendians. I have a couple of young HENRYs in my family tree. And there is the Hawk Tuah girl.
I can tell Nancy has been around a while at this game because she is writing on TypePad, a platform that had its heyday many years ago.
