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On Facebook, our basic humanity is reframed as an exploitable viral asset. Our social potential is compressed to our ability to command public attention, which is then made inextricable from economic survival. Instead of fair wages and benefits, we have our personalities and stories and relationships, and we’d better learn to package them well for
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Again, as I noted above, Facebook made the 2013 decision to increase the value of newsworthy links for a reason, and in the time since, BuzzFeed in particular has proven that there is a consistent and repeatable way to not only reach a large number of people but to compel them to share content as well. Was Krugman wrong because he didn’t appreciate... See more
Stratechery • Mistakes and Memes
The Algorithmic Editor
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
“Algorithms are replacing the fundamentally human—or at least, the less digitally mediated—process
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Nathan Lambert
substack.com
