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
Discoverability of smart web content relies on word of mouth and human curation.
While the dumb web screams, the smart web whispers.
While the dumb web screams, the smart web whispers.
The Smart Web does exist (but it needs your support)
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.
Courtney Romano • Hey Coco: Am I undisciplined?
The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art
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Just Be Cool and Should I downgrade?
Via Reddit: “Early Apple Mac prototype designed by Hartmut Esslinge (frog) could be classified as a cyberdeck”
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/v4ltdg/early_apple_mac_prototype_designed_by_hartmut/
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologis
Photography and Art
‘Occasional Readings in Photography’ from Columbia College Chicago, Number 2 (By Shelia Horochena, copyright 1987)
A Year Of Nothing by Emma Gannon | The Pound Project
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