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Evan
Evan
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Liked by Ben Krauss
In a world where all political media panders to its audience, only one man was willing to stand up and tell his that they are old and uncool.
Evan
11h
Liked by Ben Krauss
In a world where all political media panders to its audience, only one man was willing to stand up and tell his that they are old and uncool.
Progressive millennials are old now
up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm—which hashtags, memes, or formats need to be followed.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Hot Take: Substack is just as susceptible and welcoming to the mindless tendencies of other social media platforms.
This is why short “notes” about random things will get infinitely more attention than a poem or essay or story containing the poured-out heart of a writer.
We are addicted to easy things.
Substack is not the golden redemption from socia... See more
This is why short “notes” about random things will get infinitely more attention than a poem or essay or story containing the poured-out heart of a writer.
We are addicted to easy things.
Substack is not the golden redemption from socia... See more
Ian Samuel Helton on Substack
Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The New York Times will triumph financially, dramatically so, and utterly fail as an intellectual institution, at least by its former standards. The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
It’s a social network that doesn’t show you follower counts, doesn’t let you edit pictures, it automatically follows everyone in your phone book, and I dunno, it’s an app. Josh Constine wrote about it with his trademark froth, suggesting that “the future of social is multiplayer,” a statement that - and I say this respecting Josh otherwise - means ... See more
Ed Zitron • Silicon Valley's Social App and Teen Obsession
wow @daisandconfused really crushed this
the future of media is a bank https://t.co/EG9h3eXLVr