Otis Chandler

The efficiency and overall offensive brilliance of Gilgeous-Alexander (with an impressive 38 points on 12-for-21 shooting) should be the talking point of Game 2 — especially on a night he was awarded the MVP in front of the passionate Oklahoma City fan base — but the Thunder’s ball movement remains supreme in this series.

Last year, the billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, a friend of Bezos’s who once gave generously to Democrats, announced that he would back Trump. In a recent interview with the Times, Andreessen said his cohort believed that the Biden Administration had targeted the tech industry “in a very broad-based way.” There were, he said, “lots and lots of... See more

In other words, social media became... media.

Facebook was born from a website made for elite students to rank their classmates’ sexual attractiveness; Twitter was a watercooler where bored office workers could get attention by telling jokes in public. It’s as if 3M’s accidental invention of Post-It notes while failing to make space glue landed them a UN veto.

On Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and almost every other big social media platform, the link is deprioritized in favor of keeping your eyes on the platform at all costs. This has had disastrous consequences for journalism, art, and the fundamental connective nature of the web.