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Sulzberger’s employees and American journalists in general are similar. They’re the Stasi with a stock symbol, the original surveillance capitalists.

Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country

Following Andrew’s death at age forty-three in March 2012, Steve Bannon became executive chairman. Under Bannon’s reign Breitbart became a haven for what the corporate press indiscriminately describes as “alt-right,” “far-right,” “populist,” or “white supremacist” views. Conservative wunderkind—and purported ghostwriter of Andrew’s book—Ben Shapiro

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden

Alex Kantrowitz onezero.medium.com

Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more

Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

“Rather than everyone looking up to the pulpit of The New York Times, what we have much more of is individuals, people with millions of followers —like PewDiePie, who has more reach on YouTube than any brand or corporation…Nobody really knows where to look. There’s nobody at the front, and it seems like we have this cacophony of noise, and as a res... See more

Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Adrienne LaFrance theatlantic.com

Some users have already burned out, which raises the question of how many people with a coveted pro deal will find Substack’s grind unsustainable once they exhaust their advances. At the same time, many other writers simply won’t be able to make a living on Substack no matter how hard they try. But nevertheless, Substack’s growing cast of luminarie... See more

Joe Pompeo • “There Has to Be a Line”: Substack’s Founders Dive Headfirst Into the Culture Wars

Zunger proposed adding a third tier for these debatable clips: keep them up but note internally that they were close to the line. If accounts came close too often, pull them from video recommendations.

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

He has distanced himself from the faction known as “e/acc” or “effective accelerationism,” a term used by Beff Jezos, Marc Andreessen, and others as a winking dig at effective altruism. (Altman has tipped his hat to e/acc too, once replying “you cannot out accelerate me” to one of Jezos’s tweets—another sign that he serves at the pleasure of the ph