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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times.
We Sent Ralph Nader Some of Our Favorite Pens. He Dismissed Them All.
Annemarie Conte is an editor who writes the Ask Wirecutter column and trending-product reviews. She’d love to make you a friendship bracelet. It all started on a surreal summer day, when I was called in to see our editor-in-chief.
The future starts in South Africa
In Cape Town on 2 January 2022, a mysterious fire broke out in South Africa’s parliament.
The internet is disappearing, study says
The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost. While the web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research.
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“read, write, own” web ⁋ by olia
Those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation. Actually they were made to believe it. First by Web 2.
Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
ChatGPT kicked off the AI chatbot race. Meta is determined to win it. To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last September, is now being integrated into the search box of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. It’s also going to start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed.
The Tyranny of Content Algorithms
No matter who you are, how skilled you may be, or how much knowledge you possess, excessive activity will inevitably lead to a return to the average. This phenomenon is observable every day on the Internet.
Everyone’s a sellout now
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok? When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal, the editors at a Big Five publishing house loved the idea. The problem came from the marketing department, which had an issue: She didn’t have a big enough following.