The Atlantic
30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact
20+ min · · Here’s what’s become of them. · Shared by 205, including zeynep tufekci, Kaspar Manz, Andrea Kuszewski 🧠, Mars Rebello, Annie Lowrey, Christian Surchi, Atul Gawande, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Mathew Ingram
The Verge
Facebook launches an app for couples to talk to each other
1 min · · A relationship maintenance app. · Shared by 92, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Katja Evertz, Mari Smith, Stewart Alsop, Mars Rebello
Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
16+ min · · This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines. · Shared by 684, including Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Helen Yu, Tom Raftery, LARRY ELKAN, Michelle Tandler, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power, Vala Afshar, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Antonio Vieira Santos, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Michelle Garrett, George J Huba PhD, Matt Navarra, Mari Smith, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tamara Schenk, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️
TechCrunch
Under quarantine, media is actually social
5 min · · The flood of status symbol content into Instagram Stories has run dry. No one is going out and doing anything cool right now, and if they are, they should be shamed for it. Beyond sharing video chat… · Shared by 93, including Neil Hart 💙, Josh Elman, Gabriele, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dr. Manu Kumar, Thomas Power, Mars Rebello, Mark Kaigwa
Social Media Today
Instagram Launches New Co-Watching Feature to Help Users Connect Amid COVID-19 Lockdoans
3 min · · Instagram is launching a new 'Co-Watching' feature which enables users to scroll through Instagram within a video chat. · Shared by 18, including Andrew Hutchinson, Socialbakers, Mari Smith, Mars Rebello
MIT Technology Review
We’re not going back to normal
6 min · · Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever. · Shared by 565, including m, Thomas Fuchs , R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bill Gross, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Frank Gruber, caroline sinders, David V. Johnson, Gerd Leonhard, W. David Stephenson, Klaus Eck, John Koetsier, Peter van Sabben.eth, Jana Eggers, Thomas Power, Steve Case, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, justin caouette, Jake Jackson
The Cut
Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?
18+ min · · Investigating the undying tyranny of terrazzo. · Shared by 130, including Oliver Reichenstein, Alexandra Lange, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Kyle Chayka, Mars Rebello, Tobias van Schneider, Ian M Calvert, Val Geisler, Brittany Berger, 💥 Katie Martell
The Guardian
Infinite scroll: life under Instagram
17+ min · · The long read: After a few years, I came to understand Instagram dwellers as broken people – my people · Shared by 268, including Gabriele, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mars Rebello, Sam Proud, Klaus Eck, Scott Monty, Mark Kaigwa, luis antónio santos, Stephanie A Kowalski
MIT Technology Review
Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse.
11+ min · · The founder of macroeconomics predicted that capitalism would last for approximately 450 years. That’s the length of time between 1580, when Queen Elizabeth invested Spanish gold stolen by Francis… · Shared by 243, including Mars Rebello, Amber Mac, Gerd Leonhard, Larry Balaclava, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ha Duong, Thomas Power, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brad Feld, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️
CNET
6 clever Gmail tricks to minimize regret, frustration and spam
4 min · · Gmail can help keep your inbox -- and your reputation -- clean by giving you control over what comes into and what goes out of your Google account. · Shared by 17, including Mars Rebello, Amber Mac, Howard Getson
NRK
Chasing climate change
15+ min · · In Norway, way up by the Arctic circle, global warming is already affecting people and nature. Here's how. · Shared by 224, including Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦, Dan Hill, Donneker, John Paul Caponigro, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Mars Rebello, Prof. Kim Nicholas *WeCanFixIt.substack.com*, Thomas Pleil, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Oscar MacDonald, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marius Bleuer, Draven, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Enrique Dans, Rick Powell, Brian Rinaldi
The Ringer
Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry
13+ min · · Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business. Here’s what happens when a social media platform becomes a label. · Shared by 99, including Gerrit Eicker, Katja Evertz, Fanzo, Matt Navarra, Mark Kaigwa, Mars Rebello, Stephanie A Kowalski, Liliane Ferrari ™, Claudia Sommer, Aldo Gnocchi, Ines Bieler, Kevin Kelly
Quartz
Frustration grows in China as face masks compromise facial recognition
2 min · · Facial recognition technology is essential to daily life in China, on a scale beyond than other nations. · Shared by 118, including Desmond Williams, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Jameson Lopp, Chris Gledhill, Azeem Azhar, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Mars Rebello, Mark Little, MIT Press, Samuel Hu
WIRED
The Fractured Future of Browser Privacy
5 min · · Better anti-tracking measures have become the norm for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other modern browsers. But they still disagree on how exactly they should work. · Shared by 106, including Oliver Raduner, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marc R Gagné MAPP, henrik, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Luca Like, Mars Rebello, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Longreads
Menace Too Society
9 min · · Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house. · Shared by 68, including Jochen Burkhard, Mars Rebello
The Outline
Raising a person in a culture full of types
6 min · · We probably shouldn’t be telling children that who they are determines what they do. · Shared by 77, including Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mars Rebello