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I tend to consider myself an amateur Real World scholar. I say “amateur” because I’ve done no actual university study on this subject, but I still say “scholar” because I’ve stopped watching the show as entertainment. At this point, I only watch it in hopes of unlocking the questions that have haunted man since the dawn of civilization. I’ve seen e
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page. B... See more
David Pierce • Spotify for readers: How tech is inventing better ways to read the internet
How to Discover Your Own Taste
open.spotify.comOn TikTok, new songs surge or flop based on how effectively they entice users to perform some slapdash feat: a simple dance, a costume change sourced from the bedroom closet, a cute or cringe confession. With a booming, young user base, TikTok has become a music-promotion ecosystem of extreme importance. That ecosystem thrives on calculated messine... See more
Spencer Kornhaber • TikTok Killed the Video Star
In guiding us into particular categories through soft coercion, the Netflix algorithm ends up defining our taste as only one fixed thing, made more rigid by every successive interaction…
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