Six months ago, I looked up how to humanely euthanize a sick fish on Reddit. I found a method and now my fish is dead.
Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.
The algorithm must think I’m a fish mass murderer. It won’t stop.
Six months ago, I looked up how to humanely euthanize a sick fish on Reddit. I found a method and now my fish is dead. Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes. The algorithm must think I’m a fish mass murderer. It won’t stop.
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Don’t get notified when anyone unsubscribes from anything. I can’t believe some newsletter / membership software DEFAULTS — d e f a u l t s — to emailing you when someone unsubscribes or cancels a membership. are. you. mad? Who are these Sadist Engineers of the Fifth Circle of Hell setting these defaults? The quickest route to declining mental heal... See more
Craig Mod • Memberships Work
sari added
When I last searched the name of a real person, a name which only came to me in missing posters and pleas for a safe return, a name which came to exist in my mind that day as a result of something very raw and real and human, I was presented some of the most clinical and fundamentally in-human writing I’ve ever read. The uncanniness and insensitivi... See more
charlie squire • Digital Graveyards
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search for people complaining
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
I save all my emails.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
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This allows us to pop the algorithmic bubbles—the weapons of math destruction—used by the Twitters, Facebooks, Googles of the world to lull us to sleep. It shuts off the intermittent dopamine drip to which we have become tethered and addicted.Though I do not lead a life so interesting to write about each and every day (partly why this newsletter go... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
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Lucas Kohorst added
The internet: always proving that you’re not quite as special as you suspected.