John Long
@janthonylong.bsky.social
Author, ZOMBIE BRANDS (coming Feb. 2026) | ECD, Digitas | Former Ogilvy, Huge, The Economist | Cannes, Clio, Effie | Webby+Effie Judge. Let's go Knicks. 🇺🇸/🇮🇹
Just don't see the logic of Coke bragging about how they made their holiday ad. The audience doesn't care--until they find out it was AI, then they hate it.
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What Marketers Can Learn From Backlash To Coke AI Ads
"Even sophisticated AI animations can appear cold or impersonal if they overshadow the story," said Top Marketing Agency CEO.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just don't see the logic of Coke bragging about how they made their holiday ad. The audience doesn't care--until they find out it was AI, then they hate it.
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
WPP Exec thinks middle-aged creatives only know how to make "posters." I offer my thoughts.
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“Middle-aged traditional creatives, the ones that have built a career doing traditional TV ads and posters who you’d have thought would be the most at threat of extinction, are moving very fast, teach...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
WPP Exec thinks middle-aged creatives only know how to make "posters." I offer my thoughts.
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Oh, come on.
Yale students complained that French classes were too hard and time-consuming, so the department has largely eliminated final exams and put more focus on "in-classroom collaboration between classmates."
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To woo students, French department makes courses easier
In response to surveys conducted by a committee and course evaluations, the French department largely eliminated final exams and reduced in-class hours.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Oh, come on.
Guy has game.
you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Guy has game.
"Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life...Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
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Pope Leo XIV Wades Into Durbin Debate
The number of bishops who have condemned Cardinal Cupich’s decision to honor Durbin with a 'lifetime achievement award' has risen to 10, including two bishops emeritus.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life...Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
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A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
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Let me just say a simple thing.
Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.
If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.
If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
September 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Let me just say a simple thing.
Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.
If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.
If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
Oh look, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social triples-down on Kirk doing politics "the right way."
September 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Oh look, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social triples-down on Kirk doing politics "the right way."
Tomorrow, probably.
September 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Tomorrow, probably.
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The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today.
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
September 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today.
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
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We all make poor choices in life. But few are as bad as allowing yourself to be lectured about incitment and violent rhetoric by anyone who follows Donald Trump. Seriously. Make good life choices, folks.
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We all make poor choices in life. But few are as bad as allowing yourself to be lectured about incitment and violent rhetoric by anyone who follows Donald Trump. Seriously. Make good life choices, folks.
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One thing I did not include in my profile of Trump's BLS nominee, E.J. Antoni, is his boosting anti-Churchill far-right histories!
August 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
One thing I did not include in my profile of Trump's BLS nominee, E.J. Antoni, is his boosting anti-Churchill far-right histories!
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the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.
Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” and just 3 minutes of coverage to developments in the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Fox News since Monday: 85 minutes talking about Sydney Sweeney, 3 minutes talking about Epstein
Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” devoting over 20 segments to the story. In compariso...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.
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The full video is worth watching. The brand new Model Y (updated version) breezes past the school bus lights, runs over a child, pauses, then keeps going. These vehicles are not safe @realdanodowd.bsky.social @resistaustin.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...
“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”
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June 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The full video is worth watching. The brand new Model Y (updated version) breezes past the school bus lights, runs over a child, pauses, then keeps going. These vehicles are not safe @realdanodowd.bsky.social @resistaustin.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...
And here's the logical endpoint of making viewpoint diversity the goal above all else.
TAKANO: Does refusing to hire a Holocaust denier as a member of Harvard's history department count as an ideological litmus test?
McMAHON: I believe there should be diversity of viewpoints relative to teachings and opinions on campuses
McMAHON: I believe there should be diversity of viewpoints relative to teachings and opinions on campuses
June 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
And here's the logical endpoint of making viewpoint diversity the goal above all else.
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Big week for Villanova alums. ✝️🏀
May 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Big week for Villanova alums. ✝️🏀
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Every now and again I think of this post (from @janthonylong.bsky.social)
April 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Every now and again I think of this post (from @janthonylong.bsky.social)
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One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.
March 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.
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But if you want to know just how bad things are for the brand, remember this: Depreciation reveals *everything*. It tells you exactly what consumers think about a product.
Where does Tesla sit on depreciation? DFL. Below *Jaguar.* 4/
Where does Tesla sit on depreciation? DFL. Below *Jaguar.* 4/
February 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
But if you want to know just how bad things are for the brand, remember this: Depreciation reveals *everything*. It tells you exactly what consumers think about a product.
Where does Tesla sit on depreciation? DFL. Below *Jaguar.* 4/
Where does Tesla sit on depreciation? DFL. Below *Jaguar.* 4/
Bubble.
“OpenAI was last valued at $157 billion in October, when it raised $6.6 billion. Roughly doubling its value in just a few months would be extraordinary even by the standards of Silicon Valley’s current AI boom.”
Exclusive | OpenAI in Talks for Huge Investment Round Valuing It at Up to $300 Billion
SoftBank would lead the $40 billion round for the ChatGPT maker, some of which would go to the Stargate AI infrastructure venture.
www.wsj.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Bubble.
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So Elon Musk appears to be using ringers to level up PoE2 characters so he can pretend he's a hardcore gamer on livestreams. Extremely pathetic.
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Elon Musk "Playing" Path of Exile 2
YouTube video by Cynicalex
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January 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
So Elon Musk appears to be using ringers to level up PoE2 characters so he can pretend he's a hardcore gamer on livestreams. Extremely pathetic.
youtu.be/KE1NwHpwWzc?...
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Rule by socially-maladjusted, emotionally-stunted druggie degenerate is going about as one might have imagined.
December 20, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Rule by socially-maladjusted, emotionally-stunted druggie degenerate is going about as one might have imagined.
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Musk is so funny. He has no idea how any company makes money so he thinks the answer is "do everything" versus "build tech products on top of advertising monopolies built on trillions of data points"
Elon Musk says they're working on a Gmail rival called Xmail 📩
December 17, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Musk is so funny. He has no idea how any company makes money so he thinks the answer is "do everything" versus "build tech products on top of advertising monopolies built on trillions of data points"