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Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.
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Brad Feld quoted
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars
Our readingThings are understood better from books than from newspapers, television, or social media.
Their wordsI’ve also always understood things better from books than from newspapers, television, or social media.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsSome software moats will remain like social media (community), ecommerce (think like Shopify and Stripe), etc but they will just be used by AI to build the personal software with
- 5 days earlier
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsSocial media elevates the worst people in our society and let's them rule over us
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Our readingAI is creating user surplus and capital deepening, even if it is not yet showing up in TFP data.
Their words“AI” is certainly doing (1) (and will keep doing so unless it goes horribly wrong the way so much social media did, and our brains are hacked to our detriment by AI-slop). And AI is certainly doing (2): that is growing wedge over the past three years between the “labor productivity growth” and the “TFP growth” line.
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Noah Smith quoted
Our readingThe political system is actually ruled by young staffers who consume extremist social media content.
Their wordswe're actually ruled by 27-year-old staffers who mainline extremist X and TikTok slop
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsGlad to see people finally pointing the finger at social media.
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Barry Ritholtz quoted
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer…
Our readingSocial media commentary tends to combine aggressive ignorance with performative opinion-sharing.
Their wordsit's a reminder that all social media are a laughable combination of aggressive ignorance and performative opinionating...
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Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingScheduling posts across multiple platforms out of eagerness for fame is probably not the future.
Their wordsThere's something about people who are so eager to be famous, they do this whole scheduling thing and on multiple platforms and I don't know, I don't think that's the future
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsPeople want realness and authenticity, and that's been in short supply forever, it was the same on here a decade ago, most people can't be real
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsSocial media made malignant trolls the emperor's of our society
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Our readingMeta may be remembered as an AI company rather than a social media company in the future.
Their wordsAs impossible as it seems now, maybe in 50 years we'll remember Meta as the AI company and not the social media company.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsFor every reddit doomer, there's a hundred quiet bloomers. Online discourse is dominated by malcontents and their neuroses. But the real world is full of people leaning into the future with optimism.
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Brad DeLong quoted
Their wordsCuration is thus an inevitable bet on judgment over completeness — you accept that you will miss almost everything, and you invest your scarce attention in a few people whose sense of the common thread you trust.
↗READING: BARRY RITHOLTZ: How I Build My Reading Listsbraddelong.substack.com
- 1 day earlier
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Matt Birchler quoted
Designer, product manager
Their words2026 has been nothing if not a showcase after showcase of how angry (typically) right wing influencers and their social media lackeys are living in their own reality where they’re mad about things no one else is.
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- 1 day earlier
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Brad DeLong quoted
Their wordsit is not true that modern institutional speech faces "no adversary": we have journalism, litigation, regulators, social media pile-ons, whistleblowers, and o on.
↗CROSSPOST: NICHOLAS GRUEN: Hobbes on Spin & Bullshitbraddelong.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Casey Newton quoted
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms…
Their wordsit's maybe the most important media platform in the world, and also one that journalists have found very difficult to crack.
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsThe great un-bundling of cable was always going to lead to a re-bundling of streaming. It's simply too expensive and too chaotic without a more central hub.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsSocial media is destroying out society. Quitting doesn't help because everyone else is still on it. It's a bad equilibrium. It needs to be solved with government regulations.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsSocial media put our entire discourse in the hands of our society's biggest assholes and idiots, just in time for the arrival of an alien superintelligence
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Preshit Deorukhkar quoted
Indian technology consultant and writer
Their wordsYour entire internet presence is largely controlled by large organizations and is at the the whims of people sitting in executive chairs who don't have even an iota of understanding the effects of their actions.
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Byrne Hobart quoted
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance…
Our readingA more fragmented but media-savvy population will lead to more small-scale, meme-driven terrorism.
Their wordsOne potential upshot of this: a more fragmented media environment but a much more media-aware population will lead to more small-scale, meme terrorism.
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Marco Arment quoted
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast
Our readingSociety was better off before everyone's political opinions on every issue were widely known.
Their wordsAnd I can't help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone's hot takes on everything.
- 4 days earlier
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Paul Bloom quoted
Psychologist at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Yale
Their wordsI think it’s entirely plausible that screens have a real negative effect on teenagers, but studies can’t find them because (a) the effects need not be dose-dependent (maybe two hours on your phone isn’t worse than one hour), and (b) given that everyone else is on social media, giving it up can have a negative effect.
↗Kids These Dayssmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Casey Newton quoted
Their wordsWhether American teenagers should be harassed after 10 p.m. by engagement-baiting push notifications ought to be a matter for Congress, not the social media cartel.
↗Meta settles with the states over child safety failuresplatformer.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Casey Newton quoted
Their wordsIt's true that Meta's rivals do largely employ the same cocktail of video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to continuously derail their users' attention.
↗Meta settles with the states over child safety failuresplatformer.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Masud Husain quoted
Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford
Their wordsOne is yes, I agree with you that this sort of behavior, doom scrolling, etc. occurs, but I think the evidence that there are dopamine hits when you're doing this isn't really very strong.
↗How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husainyoutube.com 15th of 24 in this recording
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François Chollet quoted
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark
Their wordsAn increasing fraction of social media consists of slop influencers using AI to make posts and bots replying to them. An echo of an echo of an echo
- 11 days earlier
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Anthony Sculimbrene quoted
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife
Their wordsSocial media in general has become a flood of garbage posts either with AI visuals or AI text and all of it has almost no value.
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Chris Coyier quoted
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen
Their wordsAny site that has public-facing user generated content is going to have bad behavior.
↗Clips from Hacker News Threadchriscoyier.net 1st of 2 in this piece
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Dave Rupert quoted
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast
Our readingAdvertising is what has degraded the quality of websites and social platforms like Instagram.
Their wordsAds are why websites have gone to shit. It's why Instagram has become unusable, not to mention that it's become a giant multi-level marketing scam where it's all influencers hustling their dropshipped garbage to each other instead of sharing cool photos with friends.
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