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Charlie Warzel writing about his toilet theory of the internet: > I have precious little time to hook a reader with whatever I’m trying to get them to read—but also that my imagined audience of undistracted, fully engaged readers is an idealized one. It says a lot that

Ben Werdmuller writing about Threads trading trust for growth: > If X has fake news, Threads is assumed to have fake views: engagement by any means necessary. I did not know that Meta were incentivising engagement bait, but it now seems obvious. Despite my initial thoughts on liking Threads as

Habib writing about their version of social media brain > Instead of scanning my surroundings for something relatable to turn into a social media post, I pay attention to blog posts and articles I read on the web. I’m constantly looking for anything of relevance that triggers and sparks

Manuel Moreale thinking about the differences between hobbies and side projects: > A hobby is something one does for themselves. This blog is a hobby. I write on it because I find it enjoyable and the primary user is myself. And since it’s a hobby, money is not taken

Matt Birchler is an expert on payments, so when he writes about them, you listen: > I can’t see the future, and I don’t work directly in card issuance, but this is my very strong instinct. They want to win the payment volume game, and you don’t

Jared Henderson in a recent ParkNotes video on Commonplace Books (cleaned up by me): > I think that people found it refreshing to just be like oh I could just do this in a notebook and there's not like a system .. basically just a repository where I just

Colin Friedersdorf writing in The Atlantic about why they Why I Hate Instagram Now > Meta, Instagram’s parent company, still says its mission is giving people “the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” As it thwarts my efforts to see all the photos posted by

Kev Quirk writing in Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air > Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another £1,000 or so on the latest version

Zach Seward being clear that AI is not like you and me: > Aristotle, who had a few things to say about human nature, once declared, "The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor," but academics studying the personification of tech have long observed

Karissa Bell for Engadget: > Zuckerberg then launched into a lengthy rant about his frustrations with “closed” ecosystems like Apple’s App Store. None of that is particularly new, as the Meta founder has been feuding with Apple for years. But then Zuckerberg, who is usually quite controlled in his