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If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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substack.com
Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.
Richard Patey • Why Creators Should Choose Protocols Over Subscriptions
But I want to know and be able to explain my personal taste, not just accept one that’s been spoonfed to me because of a pay-for-play scheme at Spotify, for instance. I don’t want my behavior modified by a social media empire; I want to make all my own mistakes.
There’s already a nascent movement pushing back against algorithmic curation of what we... See more
There’s already a nascent movement pushing back against algorithmic curation of what we... See more
Patrick Sharbaugh • 2025 Tech Resolutions with Patrick from Hard Refresh
When Storyful first laid out its process to staff at YouTube, Clinch heard a Google coder scoff at the proposal to have expert hands curate footage. We have an algorithm for that.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
with more regard for volume than quality—because volume, sheer time spent, is what makes money for the platform through targeted advertising.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
