Sublime

Reputation became a kind of compensation.

“when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates

The mark of a hustler, a true entrepreneurial spirit, was creating the job that you wanted and making it look indispensable, even if it was institutionally unnecessary.

that have been dressed up and automated as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed. Designed and maintained by the engineers of monopolistic tech companies, and running on data that we users continuously provide by logging in each day, the technology is both constructed by us and dominates us, manipulating our perceptions and attention. T

a group of young, creative oddballs had started to use the site religiously to build cultural touchstones all on their own.

The process of enclosure, of carrying out our activities within these private platforms, changes us, including how we relate to one another and the underlying purpose of those relations.

The algorithm told me what my aesthetic was: the same as everyone else I knew.