Sublime

The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.

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.

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An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.