Seth Werkheiser
@sethwxyz
I write the Social Media Escape Club newsletter. I love helping creative people escape algorithms. I also enjoy running, taking photos, and my cat Blue.
Seth Werkheiser
socialmediaescapeclub.substack.com
Art isn't allowed to take up space anymore
Overthrowing Our Tech Overlords | NOEMA
- Creator platforms algorithmically incentivize us to create at the pace Wall Street and the market demand. This is why we’re pushed to create more and more. Not because our audiences are asking for it. Not because the world needs more of what we have to say. Because we as artists, the platforms, and their investors desire, to varying degrees, growth... See more
from The artist and the inner retreat
- But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s the digital ecosystem’s insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.
Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to comme... See morefrom Questions and Cancers by Joe Maceda
Behind the scenes with The Guardian creative team making all its election artwork by hand
"You don't need a million dollars to do nothin. Take a look at my ...
So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am truly, deeply, sorry.
- To change the stigma around needing to be constantly available and avoid phone addiction as a whole, Sheeran made the decision to get rid of his phone and only use an iPad. His primary method of communication is now email, with the singer explaining that he only checks it around once per week
from Ed Sheeran reveals he hasn’t owned a cell phone since 2015