Hooray, internet
I Hope This Email Finds you (@thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social)
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I hope this email finds you…
“While I know that some men are lonely, I do not think that what afflicts America’s young today can be properly called a loneliness crisis. It seems more to me like an absence-of-loneliness crisis.”
Watching Millionaires | Matthias Endler
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I watched the Champions League final the other day when it struck me: I’m basically watching millionaires all the time.
I Spent a Day With the Internet’s Most Beloved Risk-Taker. Millions Watch Obsessively. Few See What I Saw.
Luke Winkieslate.com
content marketing vs world-building — kening zhu
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Creator platforms algorithmically incentivize us to create at the pace Wall Street and the market demand. This is why we’re pushed to create more and more. Not because our audiences are asking for it. Not because the world needs more of what we have to say. Because we as artists, the platforms, and their investors desire, to varying degrees,... See more
The artist and the inner retreat
But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s the digital ecosystem’s insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.
Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to... See more
Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to... See more
Joe Maceda • Questions and Cancers
