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
If you are stuck in a mall food court with only bad food, and you are hungry, you could always just stay hungry.
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockettlareviewofbooks.org
An alternate obit
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Mister Green and SONOS office via https://open.substack.com/pub/spacies/p/pefect-portal-places-the-studio
because the R1 launching unfinished and useless is actually exactly what the AI boom is all about. Finding — and automating — new ways to get people to pay for worse versions of what they already have.
Garbage Day • Just keep paying us, bro
SHIMIZU Akira via https://open.substack.com/pub/hige/p/300
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.
Alex Heath • Threads hits 175 million users after a year
Social Media Escape Club and Hooray, internet
The enshittification happens like clock work.
