“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
MrBeast Screwed Up Elon's Pyramid Scheme
garbageday.email/p/mrbeast-screwed-elons-pyramid-schemeRead to the end for a really good cat video
The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health - by P.E. Moskowitz
mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-buzzfeed-ification-of-mentalDid you know that the founder of BuzzFeed predicted that we'd all be yelling at each other about ADHD 25 years ago (kinda)?
The Real Name Fallacy - Coral by Vox Media
coralproject.net/blog/the-real-name-fallacy/The Coral Project is an open source project to help publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. We’re creating tools that help everyone to feel safe, respected, and heard.
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement - Alice E. Marwick, 2021
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051211021378Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement
Social Cooling - Big Data's unintended side effect
socialcooling.com/Social Cooling: is big data making us more well behaved.. but less human?
How I Got My Attention Back — by Craig Mod
craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.
The Mystery of John Titor: Hoax or Time Traveler? - Pacific Standard
psmag.com/environment/the-mystery-of-john-titor-hoax-or-time-traveler-57001A person named "John Titor" started posting on the Internet one day, claiming to be from the future and predicting the end of the world. Then he suddenly disappeared, never to be heard from again.