Aaron Dodez

Digital marketing, sports and varied other interests of no note

[nico @nicochristie]

Pretty crazy that Elon is only worth $1 Trillion

Thats like 200 miles of California high speed rail

[Aaron Dodez @aarondodez]

😂

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Mark_Sisson @Mark_Sisson]

If you’re actually writing your content, you are the 1%

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year.

Hey, happy birthday, Jesus. Hope you like crap!

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

[NFL @NFL]

Myles Garrett in his Browns career:

- 125.5 sacks (franchise leader)
- 23 multi-sack games (franchise leader)
- All-time NFL single season sack record in 2025
- 2nd-most sacks in first 9 career seasons since 1982
- 5x AP First-Team All-Pro
- 2x AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Katherine Argent wrote a masterpiece of a tweet. We turned it into a dramatic one-take short film.

This is “Everything is Fine.”

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[Mads @europemaxxed]

The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you're not careful it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
- Norm Macdonald

[Temu @shoptemu]

Discover a variety of items on Temu, featuring unbeatable deals you won't want to miss

[LinkedIn Lunatics @LinkedInLunat1c]

The hero we all need

[Hollywood Gump @FirstNameJ0hn]

Will Sasso and Dan Soder are Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Deniro reading Andy Rooney quotes. 😂😂😂😂

(🎥@ChrisVanVliet)

[Similarweb @Similarweb]

Gen AI traffic share update

Main takeaways:
→ Claude and Gemini continue to grow.
→ ChatGPT moves closer to the 50% mark.

🗓️ 12 months ago:
ChatGPT: 77.6%
Gemini: 7.27%
DeepSeek: 6.01%
Grok: 3.17%
Perplexity: 1.75%
Copilot: 1.56%
Claude: 1.37%

🗓️ 6 months ago:
ChatGPT: 69.5%
Gemini: 15.9%
DeepSeek: 4.06%
Grok: 3.31%
Perplexity: 2.22%
Claude: 2.12%
Copilot: 1.97%

🗓️ 3 months ago:
ChatGPT: 61.2%
Gemini: 23.9%
Grok: 3.94%
DeepSeek: 3.09%
Claude: 3.29%
Copilot: 1.87%
Perplexity: 1.74%

🗓️ 1 month ago:
ChatGPT: 53.7%
Gemini: 26.7%
Claude: 7.95%
DeepSeek: 3.97%
Grok: 3.20%
Copilot: 1.98%
Perplexity: 1.50%

[J.C. Parets @JC_ParetsX]

25% of Americans think the Sun revolves around the Earth. 41% think humans hung out with dinosaurs. 7% think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. 11% think HTML is an STD. 10% think the Earth is flat. And 30% think Bigfoot is real.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is a myth. Data centers have had a negligible impact on electricity prices thus far. The actual drivers are aging grids, fuel costs, clean-energy mandates, and political barriers to building more power plants. This panic is totally divorced from reality.

[Jeremy Foster Berke @jfberke]

Substack has the 10th most visits for a US news site in April, ahead of NBC news and just behind google. Pretty wild for an 8 (!) year old company.

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

should we REALLY make our schedule release video in halo?

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[TBPN @tbpn]

After several years of declining search traffic, Condé Nast CEO @rogerlynch has directed all the company's brands to operate as if search traffic to their properties will be zero.

He says the era of turning search and social media traffic into profitable businesses is gone.

And that if you run a media business that doesn't have an authoritative brand, a very strong niche, or a direct audience, you're going to be fighting hostile algo changes all the way down.

He describes a recent board meeting:

"We took a snapshot of search results from seven or eight years ago. And what you saw were a few sponsored links, then the ten blue links."

"Do the same search today, you get an AI overview, then you get rows and rows and rows of commerce links, then you get sponsored stuff."

"Each of the last three years, we would do our budgets, and we'd put forecasts in of search traffic declining. Because we'd seen the pattern of algorithm changes. And generally those algorithm changes were negative."

"Every year, our search traffic was down more than we had forecast. So last year I told our teams, 'Assume there's no search.' You have to have your businesses planned as if search is zero. We don't expect it to be zero, we expect it to be a single-digit percentage of our traffic."

[John McDermott @mcdermott]

The City of Los Angeles homelessness budget was $967.9 million in the 2024-2025 fiscal year.

The city permanently housed 7,396 homeless people that year — $130,868 per person.

That's 59% more than the median household income in LA ($82,263).

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

go on a walk. read a book. plant a tree. help a stranger. go outside. call a friend. make something. write something. volunteer somewhere. go to the gym. watch the sunset. watch the sunrise. stroke a dog. clean your room. eat a piece of fruit. cook something. put your phone down.