Vox
Have you no shame?
7 min · · Maybe the world doesn’t need to know every thought you’ve ever had. · Shared by 14, including Adam R
New York Magazine
Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media?
7 min · · The new bot-generated content is ominous for digital publishers. But the search giant might have a reason to pull back. · Shared by 32, including Mathew Ingram, John Herrman, Nicholas Diakopoulos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Adam R, Chris Moran, Brian Roemmele
London Review of Books
Patricia Lockwood
15+ min · · Thirty thousand feet over the Atlantic, eight hours into the flight from LA to London, it happened. ‘Something is very... · Shared by 31, including Adam R, Ken Schwencke, Chris Bertram
New York Magazine
Google and Bing Are a Mess. Will AI Solve Their Problems?
5 min · · This new era of search is a story about automation. But it’s also a story about corporate choices. · Shared by 13, including Adam R, Mathew Ingram, John Herrman
The New Yorker
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
7 min · · OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? · Shared by 1359, including Paul Kedrosky, Peter Yang, Simon Kirby, Gerd Leonhard, William Gibson, Luke Robert Mason, Ross Dawson, Sebastien Meunier, Carissa Véliz, John Burn-Murdoch, John Hagel, Rob Tiffany, Michael Bench-Capon, Austin Kleon, Craig Mod, wil shipley, Aaron Gustafson, Brian Stelter, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Noah Toly
Defector
End-Stage Loser Brain Is Ditching Your Favorite Team Because It Wants To Be Good Now
4 min · · With their witching-hour Wednesday-morning signing of Carlos Correa, the New York Mets reportedly will be on the hook for something like half a billion dollars in player salary and luxury-tax… · Shared by 4, including Adam R
The New Yorker
My Year of Reddit and Relaxation
5 min · · I misjudged the Web site, which can be a pleasing oasis of text-based communication. · Shared by 13, including Adam R
Inverse
Arc is the best web browser to come out in the last decade
20+ min · · Chrome has suppressed everyone for too long. The Browser Company and CEO Josh Miller are making Arc, a new and better web browser that’s prettier, more powerful, and actually fun to use. · Shared by 43, including pizza.lottie 🍕, Chris Messina, Gio Tiongson, Gui Schmitt, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Adam R
The Verge
Some New Year’s resolutions that won’t end up in your pile of shame
3 min · · I promise they’re easy! · Shared by 7, including Adam R
The New York Times
Turning Sports Statistics Into Riveting Cinema
6 min · · Jon Bois and his collaborators specialize in documentaries about seemingly unremarkable teams. Then he wields charts and graphs to spellbinding effect. · Shared by 22, including kate wagner (rilke era), Craig Brown, PhD, Adam R
Robin Sloan
A year of new avenues
12+ min · · It's 2003 again. · Shared by 227, including Adam Tinworth, ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Adam R, Zoe Scaman, Packy McCormick
Bloomberg
Even This Very Long, Super-Nerdy NBA Podcast Is Making Money
9 min · · Dunc’d On proves there’s an audience thirsty for hours and hours of two dudes talking about pro basketball. · Shared by 12, including Adam R
New York Magazine
I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
3 min · · The other day, I found myself looking at a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser. I wanted to waste time, but … I didn’t know how. · Shared by 15, including Mathew Ingram, Adam R
The New Republic
The Grown-Up Art of Andor
7 min · · “Andor” is a show about the moral choices adults are forced to make in a world of adult consequences. · Shared by 13, including Adam R
The New Republic
Elite Conservatives Have Taken an Awfully Weird Turn
8 min · · As it leaves behind American values, has the right gotten too strange to win elections? · Shared by 21, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Adam R, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Timothy Caulfield
New York Magazine
David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
20+ min · · The author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better. · Shared by 135, including Tactical Tech, David Wallace-Wells, Adam R, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks