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Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
whose preferences and desires are molded more by the platforms they use…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In a 2017 interview, Ev Williams (the founder of Twitter), said something that has stuck with me since: “the trouble with algorithms, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it... See more
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
world that Facebook is shaping. Facebook, using our native narcissism and
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Taylor called this authenticity, and it became the unreachable horizon of modern life. It’s a concept that makes sense only in its absence; we recognize inauthenticity, phoniness, when someone’s clearly being a poseur. Yet the struggle to feel authentic—this is very real, even if we know better. In Taylor’s telling, everyone becomes a kind of
... See moreHua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Arendt wrestled with the tension she felt between who she really was and how others perceived her