Defector
Life Comes At You Fast
6 min · · My two kids play in a fairly rinkydink local boys-and-girls youth soccer league. This is unmistakably small-time stuff: six teams, once-weekly hour-long practices, hilariously broad age ranges that,… · Shared by 5, including Adam R
franklantz.substack.com
Fahrenheit 98.6
9 min · · Turns out there is a fire alarm for AI and if I can't get it to stop going off I'm going to take the batteries out. · Shared by 4, including Adam R
davekarpf.substack.com
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
13+ min · · On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto" · Shared by 8, including Adam R
The Verge
The end of the Googleverse
18+ min · · The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers? · Shared by 369, including Adam R
The New Yorker
Where the Palestinian Political Project Goes from Here
5 min · · For decades, Hamas and Israel have maintained a violent equilibrium. How will the war change that paradigm? · Shared by 6, including Adam R
New York Magazine
Twilight of the Heroes of Capitalism
8 min · · How Michael Lewis got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried. · Shared by 10, including Adam R
MIT Technology Review
How to fix the internet
3 min · · If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms. · Shared by 200, including Adam R
Defector
Wow, You Can't Even Pound A Quart Of Whiskey At The Airport For Less Than $60 Anymore
3 min · · Sometimes I forget that David Brooks exists. There is a form of irrelevance available only to a certain caste of sinecured New York Times opinion writers, those whose express job is reassuring aging… · Shared by 4, including Adam R
WIRED
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
15+ min · · Or how, exactly, platforms die. · Shared by 429, including maggiefox 🇺🇦, Nir Eyal, zeldman, TonyParisi.eth, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Noah Smith, Adam Tinworth, Elrond Burrell (he/him), David Austin Walsh, Carissa Véliz, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Backchannel, Josh Bersin, Steven Pinker, Mark Kaigwa, Matt Zoller Seitz, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ed Zitron, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Chris Messina
hamiltonnolan.com
The Cost of Strikes
7 min · · Ask instead: What is the cost of not striking? · Shared by 5, including Adam R
Harper's Magazine
Man Called Fran, by John Jeremiah Sullivan
14+ min · · Plumbing, the depths · Shared by 14, including Adam R
Gawker
Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
9 min · · The inability to do basic tasks is not always a political problem · Shared by 538, including T. Greer, Noah Smith, Sarah Isgur, Dana Sitar | she/her, Steve Faktor, Nir Eyal, David Pennington, Oliver Traldi, BenYT, Adam R, Ben Dreyfuss, Digg, Dr Skye Cleary
The Independent
Uncool and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me
5 min · · If TikTok is too young, Facebook is too geriatric and Twitter is a cesspit, where are digital natives – who practically invented the ways we use the modern internet – expected to go, asks Harriet… · Shared by 16, including Adam R
New York Magazine
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change the News Business?
10 min · · The media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape. · Shared by 68, including Adam R
Defector
They Don't Want Us And We Don't Need Them
6 min · · As the market grinds on through what feels like a closing stage of something, "devour" seems almost too focused a description for what's going on. No one wants to be food, but it feels somehow more… · Shared by 5, including Adam R
The Outline
The people in power will let your country burn
6 min · · The response from the Australian government and media to the country’s unprecedented fires are a bleak vision of everyone’s future. · Shared by 18, including Damon Young, Richard Deitsch, Noely ⚡️🏐, Kat, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Adam R