Tim Peter
@tcpeter.bsky.social
Educator. Consultant. Author of the best-selling “Digital Reset: Driving Marketing and Customer Acquisition Beyond Big Tech.” Values kindness most of all.
Huge Walk/Guest Suite
Tag yourself, I’m the two bathtubs in the laundry room
Oh shit waddup
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Huge Walk/Guest Suite
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
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New paper in Science:
In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.
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In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New paper in Science:
In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.
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In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.
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“I thought several times this year while reading a particularly good book about what amazing bargains books still are
— for $20 or $30 bucks, and often even just $5 or $10 used - you can dive into an entire world created by someone else over years of work, research, and creativity.”
#SundaySentence
— for $20 or $30 bucks, and often even just $5 or $10 used - you can dive into an entire world created by someone else over years of work, research, and creativity.”
#SundaySentence
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“I thought several times this year while reading a particularly good book about what amazing bargains books still are
— for $20 or $30 bucks, and often even just $5 or $10 used - you can dive into an entire world created by someone else over years of work, research, and creativity.”
#SundaySentence
— for $20 or $30 bucks, and often even just $5 or $10 used - you can dive into an entire world created by someone else over years of work, research, and creativity.”
#SundaySentence
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There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
As a young baritone, both Crosby and Bowie were massively important singers to me. I stole phrasing and style from both with abandon.
And, yes, Crosby was not a great person. It’s much easier to separate the art from the artist when they’re not around any longer.
And, yes, Crosby was not a great person. It’s much easier to separate the art from the artist when they’re not around any longer.
In The Rock 11/30/1977: Bing Crosby’s final Christmas special airs on CBS, and features a duet with David Bowie “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy”. Bowie said he appeared on the special because “I just knew my mother liked him.” #Bowie #RockHonorRoll
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As a young baritone, both Crosby and Bowie were massively important singers to me. I stole phrasing and style from both with abandon.
And, yes, Crosby was not a great person. It’s much easier to separate the art from the artist when they’re not around any longer.
And, yes, Crosby was not a great person. It’s much easier to separate the art from the artist when they’re not around any longer.
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In The Rock 11/30/1977: Bing Crosby’s final Christmas special airs on CBS, and features a duet with David Bowie “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy”. Bowie said he appeared on the special because “I just knew my mother liked him.” #Bowie #RockHonorRoll
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In The Rock 11/30/1977: Bing Crosby’s final Christmas special airs on CBS, and features a duet with David Bowie “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy”. Bowie said he appeared on the special because “I just knew my mother liked him.” #Bowie #RockHonorRoll
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Am I being too obvious if I show up for Thanksgiving dinner carrying empty Tupperware and a box of Ziploc bags?
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Am I being too obvious if I show up for Thanksgiving dinner carrying empty Tupperware and a box of Ziploc bags?
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
I’m a lifelong Mets fan and the same is true for Steve Cohen
this is the optimal explanation, because anyone losing money on THE NEW YORK YANKEES shouldn’t be allowed to run a paper route, let alone a Major League Baseball franchise
Hearing Hal Steinbrenner on a Zoom that the Yankees didn't make a profit this year. He's hard to hear, because he's conducting the Zoom on a 200-foot megayacht in the Seychelles smoking what appears to be a new Trump $200 bill.
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’m a lifelong Mets fan and the same is true for Steve Cohen
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
“That’s not a bug… it’s a feature!”
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“That’s not a bug… it’s a feature!”
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I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
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too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need
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My prediction is we will see many of those same “AI search case studies” crashing and burning with future algorithms updates on Google in 2026 (you know, that boring old channel that probably still drives 40%+ of the site’s traffic compared to 1-2% for AI search)
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My prediction is we will see many of those same “AI search case studies” crashing and burning with future algorithms updates on Google in 2026 (you know, that boring old channel that probably still drives 40%+ of the site’s traffic compared to 1-2% for AI search)
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For brands sharing AI search case studies, def. go check out their organic visibility trend in a tool like @sistrix, @ahrefs, @Similarweb or @semrush.
And check it again over time.
Many tactics ppl are recommending for AI search are straight up detrimental for SEO.
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And check it again over time.
Many tactics ppl are recommending for AI search are straight up detrimental for SEO.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For brands sharing AI search case studies, def. go check out their organic visibility trend in a tool like @sistrix, @ahrefs, @Similarweb or @semrush.
And check it again over time.
Many tactics ppl are recommending for AI search are straight up detrimental for SEO.
(1/2)
And check it again over time.
Many tactics ppl are recommending for AI search are straight up detrimental for SEO.
(1/2)
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If you want to find a team ruining baseball, try the one which has the best pitcher in baseball locked up for years while ownership refuses to spend money it has to make the team even marginally competitive
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes picks up his first NL Cy Young award in a unanimous vote, receiving all 30 first-place votes.
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If you want to find a team ruining baseball, try the one which has the best pitcher in baseball locked up for years while ownership refuses to spend money it has to make the team even marginally competitive
Oof. Is this bad? Because it seems bad
OpenAI's Sora video generator places 3 watermarks on its AI generated videos: the top-left or top-right corner, the center-right, and the bottom-left corner.
Each of these Facebook videos has 3 caption overlays which just happen to be placed in these 3 locations.
Each of these Facebook videos has 3 caption overlays which just happen to be placed in these 3 locations.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Oof. Is this bad? Because it seems bad
Good news! If AI does in fact take over, it will at least be nice about it
The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice.
Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
arstechnica.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Good news! If AI does in fact take over, it will at least be nice about it
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If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:
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gmail should have a shuffle button so I can check out a random email from my emails
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
gmail should have a shuffle button so I can check out a random email from my emails
This seems… not great.
The FAA will reduce flight capacity at 40 major airports across the U.S. starting Friday, officials say
Flight capacity will be reduced by 10% at 40 major airports: FAA
The FAA will reduce flight capacity by 10% at 40 major airports across the country, officials said.
abcnews.go.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This seems… not great.