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Tuesday Thread: How Do You Find Good Stuff to Read on the Internet?

annehelen.substack.com/p/tuesday-thread-how-do-you-find-good/comments

“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.

There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/

MrBeast Screwed Up Elon's Pyramid Scheme

garbageday.email/p/mrbeast-screwed-elons-pyramid-scheme
Read to the end for a really good cat video

Internet Artifacts

neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

Internet Artifacts

neal.fun/internet-artifacts

The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health - by P.E. Moskowitz

mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-buzzfeed-ification-of-mental
Did 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.

Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2022/08/07/opinion/media-message-twitter-instagram.html

Web3 is Bullshit

stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html
Personal Blog

RevK®'s ramblings: It's official, ADSL works over wet string

revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html

Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement - Alice E. Marwick, 2021

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051211021378
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement

I want to live on AuntKatie's Internet - Garbage Day

garbageday.email/p/i-want-to-live-on-auntkaties-internet

The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram

documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/
Collectible but Not Consumeristic

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-57001
A 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.

QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/

Zero Trust Information – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.