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It has already built an ecosystem that runs on exploiting attention and monetizing the self. Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told” for ages—you still live in the world that this internet has created, a world in which selfhood has become capitalism’s last natural resource, a world whose term
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The fitness industry’s maximalist ethos that throwing yourself wholeheartedly into a program—that working harder and faster, never quitting, and intensely believing in yourself—will give you flat abs and inner peace is uncannily reminiscent of the prosperity gospel.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
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In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutte... See more
Kyle Chayka • Unnamed Document
Como investigadoras e críticas, elas estavam desconstruindo seus mitos pessoais da beleza.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
Twitter is particularly valuable: even the most casual of searchers can look for a word or phrase and form an impression of how people are using it. They might notice that a lot of people who used “smol” in 2018 also appeared to be fans of anime or cute animals, or that “bae” was used primarily by African Americans until around 2014, when it starte
... See moreGretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A Productive Member Of Society in my own weird way, a Real Artist.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Ultimately, language can serve as a rather blatant means of otherizing all things feminine.