Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtube.comIdeas from George Mack:
1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.
2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty
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World Edition - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
Bo Burnham (the musician comedian) on the business of social media:
"[Social media firms are] coming for every second of your life...And it's not because anyone is bad, it's not because anybody in this company has evil plans or is trying to do this, they're not even doing it consciously. Their entire model is growth. They’re coming for every second
... See moreA child need not encounter violent, pornographic, or hateful content to suffer profound harm; it is enough to be entrapped by infinite scroll mechanisms, gamified feedback loops, or pseudo-choice interfaces that distort perception, erode self-control, and monetise vulnerability. These harms are not accidental—they are deliberate artefacts of... See more