Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
On TikTok, new songs surge or flop based on how effectively they entice users to perform some slapdash feat: a simple dance, a costume change sourced from the bedroom closet, a cute or cringe confession. With a booming, young user base, TikTok has become a music-promotion ecosystem of extreme importance. That ecosystem thrives on calculated messine... See more
Spencer Kornhaber • TikTok Killed the Video Star
What We're Fighting For
Edward Zitron • What We're Fighting For
Sulzberger’s employees and American journalists in general are similar. They’re the Stasi with a stock symbol, the original surveillance capitalists.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
On the moral point, go back and look at any recent NYT headline and note how many of the articles involve a moral rather than factual premise as the core point. Free speech is bad, white people are bad, communism was good…this
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
But whether Substack is good for writers is one question; another is whether a world in which subscription newsletters rival magazines and newspapers is a world that people want.
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
a group of young, creative oddballs had started to use the site religiously to build cultural touchstones all on their own.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
where a teenager's TikTok can tank a stock faster than a Goldman Sachs downgrade.
Zoe Scaman • The Synthesised Strategist
meaningless, since they can be so easily navigated by phone.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
today’s sexism is insidious, casual, politically correct, even friendly.