Seth Werkheiser
@sethwxyz
I write the Social Media Escape Club newsletter. I love helping creative people escape algorithms. I also enjoy running, taking photos, and my cat Blue.
Seth Werkheiser
socialmediaescapeclub.substack.com
APS-C 50mm F1.2
ttartisan.myshopify.com
Manual lenses for digital cameras (I guess).
How Marion Stokes Singlehandedly Preserved Over 30 Years Of American Television History
allthatsinteresting.com
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka: 9780385548281 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
penguinrandomhouse.com
“Social media is free because you pay for it with your time.”
simon • The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Costs of Social Media | Dino Ambrosi | TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool
Sublime is currently using AI for semantic matching. Feels like there’s lots to develop along those lines, without ever needing to dip into generative AI (robot prose, images, etc.)
What could you give away? What are you hoarding for later—for a better opportunity, for more money, for more prestige?
“The villain here is not necessarily the internet, or even the idea of social media,” she writes. “It is the invasive logic of commercial social media, and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction.” The business model of platforms like this — which rely on advertising and clicks and “en
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