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In our conversation, Nadia mentioned the classic piece “Status as a service” by Eugene Wei that details how Twitter functions (or functioned) as a giant status-seeking engine. This piece, Nadia proposed, crystalized the era of the internet when people were optimizing for likes and cultural cache in a game that felt novel and exciting. Something ess... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
I still felt like I was full of a purple angry porridge—everything was so mixed up and sloshed together that I couldn’t begin to pull out a single thread of why.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
Excess Opportunity Yields a Price
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AI am what AI am
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the examined family | Courtney Martin | Substack
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I couldn’t tell which parts were pathologically problematic and which were fine as they were.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
A friend at Stripe recently suggested – half-jokingly – that we should hire a librarian to organize all our internal data and documentation.