If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.

“Small Lake” represents a new type of creative release: one that not only puts work into the world and invites the public to purchase it, but also openly invites other creators to creatively and financially participate in the work, made possible by Metalabel’s innovation of earnings splits for all kinds of creative releases.

Celebrate smallness. Don’t rush past it too quickly. Embrace it. Relish it as a beautiful moment that we can only hold onto for so long.

Threads is still a loss leader for Meta financially, though it can certainly afford to fund it indefinitely. Internally, I’m told execs are thinking about turning on ads in Threads sometime next year, though the exact plan is still up in the air.

this week, if you have time to do one extra thing, I suggest connecting with someone in a way that counts. It doesn’t have to be big, or take a lot of time.

I decided I won’t sacrifice my health, my time, or social hours with friends and family to keep up with content. Over the last few years, I’ve accepted that this tidal wave of cultural content is passing me by, and will continue to do so as long as its pushed out at this breakneck speed and volume.

The internet and numbers and bots cannot and will not translate to real tangible communities. We get carried away by the fog that is the internet and its illusions, forgetting that there exists a physical, tangible reality, a reality that we must engage with.

Analog media was a part of life. And there was so much of it: Daily newspapers, a gigantic TV that took up a lot of space, VHS tapes, DVDs, vinyls, audio cassette tapes, CDs, a large stereo to enjoy your music, books, encyclopedias to look something up, dictionaries, magazines for inspiration, recipe clippings, coupons, a physical calendar to remem... See more

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