I Hope I’m Wrong!

I Hope I’m Wrong!

Ryan Broderick garbageday.email

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Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a radi

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9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications

Scott Belsky scottbelsky.substack.com

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The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media

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Regretful Accelerationism

Ben Thompson stratechery.com

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Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy i... See more

James Vincent • AI Is Killing the Old Web, and the New Web Struggles to Be Born

Are We Watching the Internet Die?

Edward Zitron wheresyoured.at

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