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Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson • Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
There are awards for the year’s best films but not for its best TikTok videos. That’s too bad, since 2024 yielded several tiny masterpieces. From @yojairyjaimee, a flawless, minute-long re-creation of some bizarre 2009 stage patter by Kanye West (who now goes by Ye). From @accountwashackedwith50m, twelve seconds of chocolate-covered strawberries, f... See more
Years ago, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Kanye West had hardly anything in common. Now their pursuit of publicity has morphed them into versions of the same persona—the attention troll. And, despite ourselves, we can’t look away
The Great Political Films: Citizen Kane
podcasts.apple.comnot a tech bro but a person that reflects their thinking too - and how they have misunderstood the citizen Kane
Third Places, Stanley Cup Mania, and the Epidemic of Loneliness
youtube.comThe Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review – how big tech altered the narrative
Mon 19 Feb 2024 03.00 AEDT
In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and
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thomas cameron, voice note
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
amazon.com
I loved this book - an attempt to take their philosophy seriously and explain why, while disruptive indeed, it does not make any sense