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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Substack hasn’t just made me a subscriber; it’s turned me into a willing participant in the marketplace of internet intellectualism.

That’s the platform’s real magic trick—turning ideas into products, writers into entrepreneurs, and newsletters into status symbols.

Anu Atluru • Thoughts For Sale

Best Representations of Autism in Media

as someone un the spectrum I prefer fair, honest, and nuanced portrayals AND positive is appreciated

Astrid - most comprehensive and least caricatured I’ve seen. This is not just achieved through Astrid herself, but through her colleagues learning about autism and through the other expressions of the spectrum

The purpose of “Emily in Paris” is to provide sympathetic background for staring at your phone, refreshing your own feeds—on which you’ll find “Emily in Paris” memes, including a whole genre of TikTok remakes. It’s O.K. to look at your phone all the time, the show seems to say, because Emily does it, too. The episodic plots are too thin to ever be... See more

Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV

Netflix pioneered the filtering of culture through recommendation engines.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

The goal is to hook us as users, of course, but also to divert overall streamshare toward discounted offerings—works that have been licensed to Spotify at a lower price point, both through its ghost artists program and its algorithmic payola-like practices.

Liz Pelly • Mood Machine

In its variety, the Substack corpus resembles the blogosphere. It is produced by a mix of career journalists, bloggers, specialists, novelists, hobbyists, dabblers, and white-collar professionals looking to plump up their personal brands. The company has tried to recruit high-profile writers, offering (to a select few) health-care stipends, design... See more

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

Glenn McDonald,