Gen Z students are studying together online across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter, seeking inspiration, finding focus, and sharing academic anxieties
In late 2020, a 10-hour loop of a song from Mario Kart titled “Coconut Mall” started blowing up on Youtube. Tweets: @lkherman , @dianelyssa , @heatherfro , @annehelen , and @dianelyssa Tweets: Lily He...
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support
and do this instead Tweets: @annaleen : Here's why Substack's scam worked so well. They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletters seem lucrative. In my newsletter this week, I talk about how ...
A look at Banjo, which offers Palantir-like tools to flag emergencies, crime, and more using AI and has a 5-year deal with Utah and access to surveillance data
it's off the charts, building a total surveillance state. https://www.vice.com/... Emily Coleman / @editoremilye : Well, this is a nightmare. https://twitter.com/... Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : This...
The internet is becoming a dark forest, full of life that's retreated from public view, as private spaces like Facebook Groups and invite-only forums have grown
Requiem for a heap allocation Tweets: Tom Ffiske / @tomffiske : Wonderful write-up on the Dark Forest Theory of the internet. As the internet becomes an ever more hostile space, real conversation is r...
Slack and other workplace messaging services undermine their goal of increased productivity by becoming distractions, where users are constantly chatting
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven't. — Several people are typing. Tweets: @mostafanageeb , @bdsams , @cebsilver , @howelloneill , @a...
Inside the world of private Facebook Groups, which can shield communities from trolls and toxic content, and how women use them
give people space & acceptance for their candidate fandom. As @annehelen explains: The internet is both the venue for that fandom and the reason that comfortable space is needed. Anne Helen Petersen /...
The digital world is not designed to keep women safe, evidenced by the endless harassment and abuse, and any new regulation needs to keep this in mind
The digital world is not designed to keep women safe. New regulations should be. — Ms. Chang, an anchor at Bloomberg TV, is the author of “Brotopia.” Tweets: @emilychangtv , @imeluny , @themoko , @...
Profile of CarpeDonktum, a stay-at-home dad posting highly popular pro-Trump memes and blurring the lines between viral trolling and the business of politics
A stay-at-home dad in Kansas reveals how the lines have blurred between viral trolling and the business of politics. Tweets: @cwarzel , @eddiezipperer , and @annehelen Tweets: Charlie Warzel / @cwarze...
Sundar Pichai's appearance before Congress was another in a long line of pointless hearings, where lawmakers display limited knowledge and execs are evasive
everybody's happy, even if little is accomplished.” http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshlobster : Lawmakers are playing to the cameras and their constituents. This ends the same way it...
Sundar Pichai's appearance before Congress was another in a long line of pointless hearings, where lawmakers display limited knowledge and execs are evasive
It's hard to imagine how these hearings will result in anything more substantial than a few less-than-viral soundbites. Tweets: @rakeshlobster , @drphilgoff , @wiczipedia , @cwarzel , @caseyjohnston ,...