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It’s impressive that in 2022, when it feels like everything we’re doing is being mined, lumped into categories, catapulted back at us in the form of ads and content, the world is being NFT-ified, yada yada yada—that you can still fall down rabbit holes on the internet and discover something no algorithm has found. A sound and scene that’s still lea... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The impossible delight of having your seventeen-month-old
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
In the algorithmic feed, timing is everything.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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?
Shout out to Bemelmans, an inarguable treasure. And shout out to the immensely & similarly charming Tosca , in San Francisco, where Erin & I had dinner the other night and which never disappoints.
BUT these places are not U.G.H.Z. because they are highly grammable and therefore susceptible to invasion by annoying hordes, screaming out to be
... See moreJonah & Erin • Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
follower inflation.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
schadenfreude.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
None of that is so surprising—it’s hard to earn four-fire-emoji status without having already built up a reputation within established institutions.