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In recent years, an underlying sense has emerged that algorithmic culture is shallow, cheap, and degraded in the washed-out manner of a photocopy copied many times over.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s... See more
Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi
Sure, all missions are inherently patronizing to the host culture. That’s what a mission is—a bunch of strangers showing up somewhere uninvited to inform the locals they are wrong.
Sarah Vowell • Unfamiliar Fishes
The tech platforms aren’t like the Medici in Florence, or those other rich patrons of the arts. They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.
Ted Gioia • The State of the Culture, 2024
The problem is that the journalist Thomas Friedman is still driving the bus. There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society. And this is a very bad practice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Against Artsploitation | Dana Kopel
thebaffler.com
An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.
