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The Atlantic
Johnny Depp and the Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom
The Atlantic
8 min read · May 17th · How the internet shows its love through hate
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The Cult of Pharmaceutical Decor
dwell
4 min read · May 19th · From quaalude candy canisters to string lights made of empty pill bottles, what's behind the trend of furnishings that glamorize prescription drugs?
VANITY FAIR
BeReal and the Never-Ending Quest to Uncover (and Ruin) the Next It App
VANITY FAIR
3 min read · May 16th · The buzzy photo-sharing app, capitalizing on our yearning for increasingly enclosed and candid online spaces, reaches that precarious sweet spot in the fad-app cycle.
Reader View · Shared by 83, including Taylor Lorenz
The Cut
The Anti-Instagram App Promising to Make Us Feel Good
The Cut
6 min read · May 20th · BeReal wants to capitalize off our desire for authenticity on social media.
The Atlantic
The Communities Trapped on Facebook
The Atlantic
5 min read · Apr 28th · Some people believe that the company’s scandals are good reason to quit the platform. Others have found one compelling reason to stay.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 90, including Nir Eyal, Brooke B. Sellas, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
Business Insider
Wellness is out and partying is in as Gen Z takes on a 'night luxe' aesthetic
Business Insider
2 min read · May 16th · Black is back. Gen Z is savoring luxurious urban nightlife as part of a hedonistic vibe shift following the economic distress of the last two years.
Reader View · Shared by 56
Glossy
The ‘night luxe’ aesthetic: Instagram and TikTok's post-wellness vibe shift
Glossy
7 min read · May 16th · For the new rising "it" girl aesthetic on social media, hedonism is the new wellness, and is now captured by the term 'night luxe.'
Reader View · Shared by 62
BuzzFeed News
Grindr Has More Women Users Now. Not Everyone's Happy.
BuzzFeed News
2 min read · May 12th · Originally designed for gay men, the dating app has become more inclusive over the years. But while some Grindr users welcome women, others resent their presence.
Reader View · Shared by 90
FiveThirtyEight
How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself
FiveThirtyEight
7 min read · May 11th · The alarm was deafening. My coffin-shaped acrylics crawled from underneath the covers, searched for the stop button and quickly found my Apple Watch. I slapped …
MIT Technology Review
Chore apps were meant to make mothers’ lives easier. They often don’t.
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · May 10th · Rather than reducing the burden of housework, they tend to become yet another thing to worry about
Reader View · Shared by 73, including Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Experience Magazine
How Wordle brought us back together
Experience Magazine
~12 min read · May 20th · Spelling Bee, too, and Words With Friends. Who knew online word games would get us talking to each other again?
Reader View · Shared by 230, including Jane
theface.com
Namecore is the trend that unifies all trends
theface.com
2 min read · May 6th · Goblin mode, dinocore, night luxe… Another day, another viral trend with an instantly clickable name. What the hell’s going on with the internet’s obsession with labelling things?
Reader View · Shared by 98, including Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸
youtube.com
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youtube.com
May 8th · Please share this video and let’s shut them down- Get your exclusive NordVPN deal here- https://NordVPN.com/markrober It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money...
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Vox
Trends are dead
Vox
8 min read · May 11th · Everything and anything can be a trend on the internet. Why are we so determined to name them?
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 365, including Anthony Hamelle, Anne Helen Petersen, David Papandrew, Ines Bieler, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸
SFGATE
TikTok influencers are leading Gen Z off a debt cliff
SFGATE
~11 min read · May 4th · “Buy now, pay later” services could very well be jeopardizing the financial futures...
Reader View · Shared by 355, including Chaotic Goode, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Matt Navarra, Eghosa Omoigui
Rest of World
In the dark: the internet sparked a revolution, then it was turned off
Rest of World
20+ min read · Apr 26th · Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.
Reader View · Shared by 338, including Boas Ruh, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Jason Hirschhorn, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, John Koetsier, Howard Getson, Michael Donohoe, Tactical Tech, Paul Ford, Mathew Ingram
Experience Magazine
How Wordle brought us back together
Experience Magazine
~12 min read · May 20th · Spelling Bee, too, and Words With Friends. Who knew online word games would get us talking to each other again?
Reader View · Shared by 230, including Jane
The Cut
The Anti-Instagram App Promising to Make Us Feel Good
The Cut
6 min read · May 20th · BeReal wants to capitalize off our desire for authenticity on social media.
Protocol
FiveThirtyEight
How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself
FiveThirtyEight
7 min read · May 11th · The alarm was deafening. My coffin-shaped acrylics crawled from underneath the covers, searched for the stop button and quickly found my Apple Watch. I slapped …
youtube.com
Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson
youtube.com
Apr 21st · Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson: https://youtu.be/IC-B0QaoQ80#b2b #business #creator #cre...
Shared by 151, including Jonathan Kogan
GQ Magazine
How the Liver King Built an Empire by Eating Raw Organ Meat
GQ Magazine
~12 min read · May 5th · From the medieval trappings of his Texas mansion to his raw liver-based diet, the TikTok star and supplement magnate promotes living like a caveman in all aspects of life.
Reader View · Shared by 138, including Howard Getson
The Nation
Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web
The Nation
8 min read · May 3rd · Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies.
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The New York Times
Stop Trying to Be Productive
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2020 · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.
Reader View · Shared by 1488, including Katja Evertz, Bethany Brookshire, Andreas Spiegler, Dr. Cheryl Arutt, Brian Stelter, Deb Lee, Mathew Ingram, Chris Bailey, Jeremy Caplan, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ali Mattu, Ph.D., Robert Rose, Merkstatt, Leah Klungness, 💥 Katie Martell, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Sprout Social, Thomas Power, Christian Müller, Shawn Venasse
tante
The Third Web
tante
20+ min read · 2021-12-17 · I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and all that would just go away and become a chapter in a book about weird economic scams. But if 2021 taught us anything it’s that we can’t have nice things so here we are.
Reader View · Shared by 1240, including Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Clemens M. Schuster, Tactical Tech, Pablo Felip, Thomas Knuewer, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Nils Hitze, Michael Seemann, Dion Almaer, Kevin Marks, Katja Evertz, Richard MacManus, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, rufuspollock, Fabio Chiusi, Luca Hammer, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Jakob Adler
The Verge
NFTs, explained
The Verge
10 min read · 2021-03-03
Reader View · Shared by 1231, including Kelsey D. Atherton, 𝚃𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗, Chris Skinner, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Bill Johnston, Dave McClure, Tom Muller, BrendanEich, Stig Ørskov, Paul Roetzer, CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾, Frank Gruber, Scott Berkun, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Anderson FCCT 💛✨👨🏽🏫🏆🌈, Real Marsha Wright®, Fed Up Cassandra, Dave Kellogg, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Helen Yu
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
Reader View · Shared by 1155, including Courtney Bolton ★, Parin Vachhani, Leo Polovets, Ryan Boren, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, fernand0, Tristan Harris, Kenneth Kalmer, Howard Getson, Matthias Sala, Nir Eyal, David Bauer, Chris Messina, Matt Navarra, Curadoria | Update or Die!, david cant 👷♂️, Thomas Power, Rand Fishkin, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, hiten.eth
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race…
Reader View · Shared by 1079, including Daniel Boos, Josh Elman, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺, Casey Smith, Bill Widmer, Mathew Ingram, Hugo Amsellem, Ryan Hoover, Tristan Harris, DHH, Jane, Gerd Leonhard, John Battelle, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Charlie Oliver, Rafa #VidasNegrasImportam, Chris Messina
Fast Company
The 26 best new productivity apps for 2021
Fast Company
8 min read · 2021-07-12 · These great apps will help you organize your digital life, avoid unwanted distractions, and more.
Reader View · Shared by 1050, including irene-rubio, LARRY ELKAN, simon-zaugg, vedant yogesh, K. Williams, Ricardo Yasuda, Arin Basu, Mike Taylor, Howard Getson
The Guardian
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
The Guardian
~14 min read · Jan 2nd · Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
Reader View · Shared by 1020, including Ben Miller, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Tim Worstall, Marsha Collier, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Tiffany Shlain, Jeff Jarvis, Karsten Schmidt 🇺🇦, Barry C Smith, Gerd Leonhard, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Scott Monty, Sam Harris, Patricia Churchland, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Richard Dawkins, Yanis Varoufakis, Jason Silva, rebecca roache
SELF
Psychology Experts on Whether Manifesting Actually Works
SELF
2 min read · Apr 28th · It's not necessarily just wishful thinking.
Reader View · Shared by 918, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her)
The Verge
What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?
The Verge
~11 min read · 2021-10-04 · The dream of an embodied future internet is back.
Reader View · Shared by 844, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Alex Tabarrok, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Ines Bieler, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Katja Evertz, Kat M. Moss, Phillip Murphy, San Jose Community NETWORK, Real Marsha Wright®, Thomas Power, Adam R, Tony Parisi.eth 🇺🇦🌻 #SlavaUkraini, Jonathan Kogan
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