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On the Internet, We’re Always Famous

Social media algorithms identify our politics and then shepherd us into a hermetically sealed bubble, framing our worldview through a window of rage and extremism.

Scott Galloway • No Mercy / No Malice

news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The hipster was an information-sorting algorithm: its job was to always have good taste . The hipster listened to bands you’d never heard of. The hipster drank beers brewed by Paraguayan Jesuits in the 1750s. The hipster thought Tarkovsky was for posers, and the only truly great late-Soviet filmmaker was Ali Khamraev. The hipster bought all his toi... See more

Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge

Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a radi

There is less time these days for anything other than economic survival. The internet has moved seamlessly into the interstices of this situation, redistributing our minimum of free time into unsatisfying micro-installments, spread throughout the day. In the absence of time to physically and politically engage with our community the way many of us ... See more

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Social media turned you, me, and everyone into broadcasters (if aspirational ones). The results have been disastrous but also highly pleasurable, not to mention massively profitable—a catastrophic combination."

The Age of Social Media Is Ending - The Atlantic, November 2022