TikTok
organization · 34 episodes · JSON
- The Collapse of Form … form? That a gif means something different than a meme? What does a TikTok versus a Reel versus a Story mean? All of these are malleable forms that …
- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … Say there was a New Better TikTok. Right now, instead of doing the regular “import contacts from your phonebook”, a New Better TikTok, could just take a look …
- Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy … disability This is horrifying Okay, how did I get here? There’s a TikTok I saw the other day where I think this is happening -- a woman is …
- Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet … Blog Stock / TikTok Flow Stock and flow from systems thinking, applied to phases of the internet. Early internet behavior and cultural as stock-building, the presumption of retention …
- Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks; You Can Just Ask For What You Deserve … Back when I was on TikTok, my page was full of people doing mental health walks, and the deal was that they'd do them angrily. The whole …
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful … Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech , Joseph Cox, 25 September, 2023, 404 Media ↩︎ The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed …
- Marks on Flat Planes … realization, and one I expect was obvious to people at the time) that TikTok's duets feature is the ultimate yes and feature that makes improv easy. Which …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … Best, Dan TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral , Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 20 January, 2023 ↩︎ Simon Willison , simonwillison.net, 25 January, 2023 ↩︎ Daily Me …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … And we get this, right now, when Tweets are screenshotted or TikToks are cross-posted but have the bug burned-in, when Reddit posts are screenshotted and shared …
- Sunny and crisp outside … regular ethernet is just fine for, like, making sure people can watch TikToks but for safety critical applications like when your LIDAR wants to send a TikTok of …
- Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think … Or, you could use exactly the same tools and process that anyone else would do to record a goddamn TikTok and just AirDrop, email, or send it to …
- Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling … Scrollytelling I am a TikTok users in that I am old and thus only watch TikToks and do not make them. Honestly just typing that makes me feel …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … Instagram is its own thing (though increasingly a shitty mall run by Facebook where I might run into some friends), and I'm not going to TikTok to …
- AQI But For Brain Fungus … If everyone's stuck figuring out what their TikTok strategy is (WaPo is doing well, in that I like their content and it works with me, but I …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … Instagram can try and match TikTok feature for feature, but if it's a different place with different priorities (sell ads) with a different culture (weird influencer scam …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … It could, like I mentioned yesterday, show up in TikTok. The reason why where to play is positioned in a way as the second question is that the …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … I mean, would it be weird if PlayStation bought the US part of TikTok? Certainly much less weird than Oracle buying the US part of TikTok. Would it …
- Eukaryotes … Or TikTok. Or whatever. And I'm going to keep down this analogy path because it's interesting and stimulating and my brain will reach out over to …
- Another Place … was threatened by TikTok so went and ate a bit of TikTok (figuratively, it just reproduced the functionality) and now Instagram has a mini TikTok inside it. I …
- Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode … popped into my head during the seminar: "the viral video fracking pipeline from tiktok to metalabel" and associated outfits/consultancies that report on candidates for Established Institutional Companies …
- News you can use; the Finocene … YOU KNOW I AM NOT JOKING), make a list of the top 50 TikTok explainer people you like and just throw money at them, just pretend you're …
- Okay, just hear me out … if you're going full on "we're not trying to do a TikTok honestly", just... turn that search view into an FYP? 1.2 Okay, just hear …
- Do Not Recommend … These places are starting to feel suffocating and stifling That's what it feels like to use Twitter and Instagram now. (Weirdly, not TikTok though! Because TikTok's …
- You'd change your credit card for this … Let's go! Books are real things A thread about books on TikTok from Anna Rafferty [1] . Quick recap: reading books on TikTok is becoming a collective cultural …
- A short conversation with a bank … to come up with the idea all by themselves, an influencer campaign on tiktok, a coordinated media blitz by CAA, the creative artists agency, the most powerful group …
- This is an Excel system, I know this … First, there is a TikTok . This one is by Kenzie, Your SQL Pal! . I shall describe it for you: INT. HOME OFFICE A white woman is sitting in …
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- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … the categories include Best Twitter Thread , Best TikTok Explainer , alongside categories like Best use of Public Records, Best News-Based Podcast, Eyewitness Award and Reporting on Race Award …
- The Device Becomes The App? … by all accounts it’s working pretty well in all those YouTube and TikTok videos of people doing amazing graphical work on an iPad? And I think part …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … permission for whatever system entitlement, like aggressively copying your clipboard every few seconds (TikTok) or, in a recent thread that I wrote about and will probably come back …
- The ATCR Boundary … Explore algorithm can be understood, much like how people are now deconstructing how TikTok recommends videos in its feed. Somewhat amusingly, while googling for Flickr’s patent, I …
- Learning the world … It feels different—unique?—to me because TikTok isn’t an SEO blog, and my gut instinct is that the TikTok explainers aren’t aimed at the same …
- 1:9:90 … I’d love to see research where it’s explored in new formats and spaces like TikTok or (showing my age) Snapchat and so on. Again, this works …
- Some things … I saw a super interesting makes you think thing about TikTok that feels like it has a high chance of getting stuck in my brain somewhere and then …