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Polarization and Part-Time Jobs

Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Direct, unfiltered exposure to said flumes—the torrent of porn, propaganda, and death threats, 99.9 percent of which were algorithmically generated and never actually seen by human eyes—was relegated to a combination of AIs and Third World eyeball farms, which was to say huge warehouses in hot places where people sat on benches or milled around gaz

Neal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel

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taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory

One of the wildest moments of this conversation for me was when I made a comment that I thought was just a universally believed truth about the post-platform internet: that people these days prefer individuals to brands. And then Nilay told me, “No, that’s wrong. It’s not people who are doing that; it’s the systems that deliver content to people” —... See more

Nilay Patel • NilayPatel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great

The usual cycle with social media sites is that they start out being very flexible and open, and are happy to have users even if those users are sharing content that sends other users off-site. But, over time, they try to get more content hosted on their own systems, and to promote it more relative to the competition. Google, while not a social pla... See more

Byrne Hobart • Price-First or Thesis-First Research?

PolicyKit, which adds governance functionality to popular social platforms;

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

Altman increasingly argued that “AI could lead to resource abundance,” meaning it could eliminate massive numbers of jobs and concentrate resources in the hands of a few, said Matt Krisiloff, a friend and former colleague of Altman’s who spearheaded the universal income project and now heads a fertility start-up that Altman invested in. “He has a b... See more

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The challenge for Substack, then, is to build an aggregator that improves the discovery and consumption experience for readers, while still honoring writers and staying true to their purpose.

Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #45

American Architect Keller Easterling is well known for her book Extrastatecraft (2014), which looked at the power of infrastructural space and how this defines the operating system of the modern world. Her most recent text, Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World (2021) looks at the spaces between things, syste