Glen Cassidy

We’re witnessing the complete collapse of nuance. The internet hasn’t just flattened attention; its flattened complexity. We no longer share a common reality, only overlapping feeds, which means everything is reduced to the memeable binary: good/bad, for/against, stan/cancel. As Jia Tolentino has argued, the lack of critical thinking online doesn’t... See more

Honour your creativity

In many ways, I feel fortunate that we built Poolsuite, Vacation® and other projects before AI became as accessible as it is now. That time gave me a runway to hone the skill of being creative. But the other day, I found myself slipping into a terrible new habit, and turning to ChatGPT before I even gave my brain 30 seconds to... See more

Remember this for whenever you design something. https://t.co/pdZrYP87uR

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... See more

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