Julia Alexander
@loudmouthjulia.bsky.social
i do words at puck. i sometimes blog at posting nexus on substack. i think about how attention is a disease. a lot.
https://posting-nexus.substack.com
https://posting-nexus.substack.com
naturally www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/21/1...
March 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
naturally www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/21/1...
It's Friday, which means it's time for the only declaration that holds true every single week: The Pitt is some of the best TV in years -- and we've had some truly great TV.
March 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's Friday, which means it's time for the only declaration that holds true every single week: The Pitt is some of the best TV in years -- and we've had some truly great TV.
This, from Neon's Tom Quinn, strikes at the heart of "implausibly big or devotedly small" framework I've used to talk about how success in media looks like in an empire + island world. Choosing not to attempt to win if willing to accept a different definition of success theankler.com/p/neon-ceo-t...
March 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This, from Neon's Tom Quinn, strikes at the heart of "implausibly big or devotedly small" framework I've used to talk about how success in media looks like in an empire + island world. Choosing not to attempt to win if willing to accept a different definition of success theankler.com/p/neon-ceo-t...
Excellent Garbage Day on Gavin Newsom's podcast and the wrong lessons Newsom took from the right's unparalleled dominant force online.
It's the Bravofication of it all. The tactics that make you very successful on a Bravo show also work on the internet. www.garbageday.email/p/gavin-news...
It's the Bravofication of it all. The tactics that make you very successful on a Bravo show also work on the internet. www.garbageday.email/p/gavin-news...
March 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Excellent Garbage Day on Gavin Newsom's podcast and the wrong lessons Newsom took from the right's unparalleled dominant force online.
It's the Bravofication of it all. The tactics that make you very successful on a Bravo show also work on the internet. www.garbageday.email/p/gavin-news...
It's the Bravofication of it all. The tactics that make you very successful on a Bravo show also work on the internet. www.garbageday.email/p/gavin-news...
I don't know if people still say some personal news, but ~some personal news~
March 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I don't know if people still say some personal news, but ~some personal news~
Everything that Built the Creator Economy Wants to Kill It.
A new report about the creator economy's future focuses on discovery. But apps aren't interested in supporting creator success off-platform; if discovery falls, along with ad revenue, what does its future really look like?
[link below]
A new report about the creator economy's future focuses on discovery. But apps aren't interested in supporting creator success off-platform; if discovery falls, along with ad revenue, what does its future really look like?
[link below]
February 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Everything that Built the Creator Economy Wants to Kill It.
A new report about the creator economy's future focuses on discovery. But apps aren't interested in supporting creator success off-platform; if discovery falls, along with ad revenue, what does its future really look like?
[link below]
A new report about the creator economy's future focuses on discovery. But apps aren't interested in supporting creator success off-platform; if discovery falls, along with ad revenue, what does its future really look like?
[link below]
Yes!! Wrote about this exact topic a while back, but exactly. Introducing AI, encouraging people to just ask a genAI tool to figure out the next step, doesn't help society. It stunts are ability to think creatively, to stumble upon, and to discover. postingnexus.substack.com/p/ai-will-de...
February 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yes!! Wrote about this exact topic a while back, but exactly. Introducing AI, encouraging people to just ask a genAI tool to figure out the next step, doesn't help society. It stunts are ability to think creatively, to stumble upon, and to discover. postingnexus.substack.com/p/ai-will-de...
Not in an “it’s so obscure/no one knows who this band even is” way, but in a “we should just continuously acknowledge how great it is” way — we’re not talking about this song enough.
February 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Not in an “it’s so obscure/no one knows who this band even is” way, but in a “we should just continuously acknowledge how great it is” way — we’re not talking about this song enough.
Me, every time the New York Times sends out a pope related push notification.
February 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Me, every time the New York Times sends out a pope related push notification.
Watching EQUILIBRIUM for the first time and, outside of all the obvious MATRIX rips and the weird logic around suppressing all emotions but pride???? I mostly dig that Christian Bale was willing to risk it all for a cute puppy.
Like, same.
Like, same.
February 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Watching EQUILIBRIUM for the first time and, outside of all the obvious MATRIX rips and the weird logic around suppressing all emotions but pride???? I mostly dig that Christian Bale was willing to risk it all for a cute puppy.
Like, same.
Like, same.
Anyway, go Canada forever and always. We may not be as ostentatious in our patriotism but my god we are proud.
February 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Anyway, go Canada forever and always. We may not be as ostentatious in our patriotism but my god we are proud.
Trudeau kicked off the Four Nations series with a note to the American players about how proud Canada is to be a US ally, all the challenges we've overcome together, and how ready Canada is to remain an independent nation that will fight alongside the US for the greater good.
This fucking guy...
This fucking guy...
February 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trudeau kicked off the Four Nations series with a note to the American players about how proud Canada is to be a US ally, all the challenges we've overcome together, and how ready Canada is to remain an independent nation that will fight alongside the US for the greater good.
This fucking guy...
This fucking guy...
Something J Watters said about "waging a 21st century information warfare" made me think about our new closed media circuit. It exists due to consolidation of attention, disincentives for objective participation, new funding for propaganda machines.
How do you fight a powerful closed media circuit?
How do you fight a powerful closed media circuit?
February 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Something J Watters said about "waging a 21st century information warfare" made me think about our new closed media circuit. It exists due to consolidation of attention, disincentives for objective participation, new funding for propaganda machines.
How do you fight a powerful closed media circuit?
How do you fight a powerful closed media circuit?
Feels like a pretty good summary of the "First 100 Days in Office" beat right now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...
February 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Feels like a pretty good summary of the "First 100 Days in Office" beat right now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...
TikTok's news cycle won't end, so I wanted to dig into TikTok's Tentacle strategy and lessons other media/information companies can gleam from TikTok's slightly different approach to building new digital empires
Less expand to conquer, more doubling down
postingnexus.substack.com/p/learning-f...
Less expand to conquer, more doubling down
postingnexus.substack.com/p/learning-f...
January 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
TikTok's news cycle won't end, so I wanted to dig into TikTok's Tentacle strategy and lessons other media/information companies can gleam from TikTok's slightly different approach to building new digital empires
Less expand to conquer, more doubling down
postingnexus.substack.com/p/learning-f...
Less expand to conquer, more doubling down
postingnexus.substack.com/p/learning-f...
The disincentives for speech a la participation are just as important as its incentives.
I wrote about our growing "bigness" problem; incentives for bigness always lead back to methods of controlling and perpetuating that enormity, public good be damned.
postingnexus.substack.com/p/crossing-t...
I wrote about our growing "bigness" problem; incentives for bigness always lead back to methods of controlling and perpetuating that enormity, public good be damned.
postingnexus.substack.com/p/crossing-t...
January 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The disincentives for speech a la participation are just as important as its incentives.
I wrote about our growing "bigness" problem; incentives for bigness always lead back to methods of controlling and perpetuating that enormity, public good be damned.
postingnexus.substack.com/p/crossing-t...
I wrote about our growing "bigness" problem; incentives for bigness always lead back to methods of controlling and perpetuating that enormity, public good be damned.
postingnexus.substack.com/p/crossing-t...
Get rid of blocking, tell people to stop using hashtags, make the main feed totally algorithmically unusable and boring.
Congrats to Elon -- in just a couple of years he has successfully destroyed everything that made Twitter an app for connection.
(even if hashtags do suck)
Congrats to Elon -- in just a couple of years he has successfully destroyed everything that made Twitter an app for connection.
(even if hashtags do suck)
December 17, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Get rid of blocking, tell people to stop using hashtags, make the main feed totally algorithmically unusable and boring.
Congrats to Elon -- in just a couple of years he has successfully destroyed everything that made Twitter an app for connection.
(even if hashtags do suck)
Congrats to Elon -- in just a couple of years he has successfully destroyed everything that made Twitter an app for connection.
(even if hashtags do suck)
Just wrote the other day about how more lax approaches to content moderation (think Reddit and (Old) Tumblr) change when a company's focus changes from best product practices for community members to profit concerns.
Like, I don't know, going public. Or entering a bigger relationship with Google.
Like, I don't know, going public. Or entering a bigger relationship with Google.
December 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Just wrote the other day about how more lax approaches to content moderation (think Reddit and (Old) Tumblr) change when a company's focus changes from best product practices for community members to profit concerns.
Like, I don't know, going public. Or entering a bigger relationship with Google.
Like, I don't know, going public. Or entering a bigger relationship with Google.
we are so fucking back
December 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
we are so fucking back
December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Tech (and to an extent, parts of media) have what I like to call Ouroboros Problems. It's why, as much as I am really enjoying Bluesky, I am hesitant. Precedent dictates that as long as profit is a concern, it will eventually become the concern.
Thoughts:
postingnexus.substack.com/p/techs-inev...
Thoughts:
postingnexus.substack.com/p/techs-inev...
December 2, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Tech (and to an extent, parts of media) have what I like to call Ouroboros Problems. It's why, as much as I am really enjoying Bluesky, I am hesitant. Precedent dictates that as long as profit is a concern, it will eventually become the concern.
Thoughts:
postingnexus.substack.com/p/techs-inev...
Thoughts:
postingnexus.substack.com/p/techs-inev...
I'd almost be impressed by the arrogance of basically hiding a seemingly clear admission in plain sight, one that arguably proves the DOJ's point, if I didn't keep thinking ... doesn't that brashness suggest what the actions of the banks suggested in 2008?
November 27, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I'd almost be impressed by the arrogance of basically hiding a seemingly clear admission in plain sight, one that arguably proves the DOJ's point, if I didn't keep thinking ... doesn't that brashness suggest what the actions of the banks suggested in 2008?
Google straight up told the DOJ that having second choice screens would impact business. One-click tools create monopolies by providing enough value incentive for people to give up their data.
I keep having ITYSL "oh my god, he admit it" flashbacks. So I blogged
open.substack.com/pub/postingn...
I keep having ITYSL "oh my god, he admit it" flashbacks. So I blogged
open.substack.com/pub/postingn...
November 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Google straight up told the DOJ that having second choice screens would impact business. One-click tools create monopolies by providing enough value incentive for people to give up their data.
I keep having ITYSL "oh my god, he admit it" flashbacks. So I blogged
open.substack.com/pub/postingn...
I keep having ITYSL "oh my god, he admit it" flashbacks. So I blogged
open.substack.com/pub/postingn...
I'd really love to know who at AMC thought "ah yes, the person buying tickets to an afternoon screening of WICKED is also likely to say "sure!" when prompted to buy a new MacBook.
November 26, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I'd really love to know who at AMC thought "ah yes, the person buying tickets to an afternoon screening of WICKED is also likely to say "sure!" when prompted to buy a new MacBook.