Essay
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Justification To Yourself
Since my early days of being online, I have been fairly easily influenced into making a tech purchase. It only required a few people talking about a new phone, or a picture of a Pepsi can from Kurt Colbeck, to make me go …
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I'm A Blogger
Chris Wilson writing about his happiness being an unprofessional blogger: About 10 years ago, I wanted to be a professional blogger. Now I’m happy to be an unprofessional blogger. Well, most of the time at least. I, too, …
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What Zuckerberg Thinks About Your Posts
Alex Heath from The Verge spoke to Mark Zuckerberg after Meta connect and there are numerous takeaways from it. I recommend you to give it a listen if you are at all interested in technology, or even if you just use Meta …
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Dull, cold day
Dull, cold day. And then I was chased off my racists (don’t ask)
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The Social Media End Times
Casey Newton in Platformer at Meta Connect: It went all but unmentioned on stage, but Meta says it is beginning to test content “imagined for you” by Meta AI on Facebook and Instagram. Meta will use your likeness and …
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No Hallucinating, That’s An Ad
Marty Swant of Digiday has seen the Perplexity pitch deck for building an advertising business: According to a copy of the pitch deck obtained by Digiday, the plan is to integrate ads within users’ queries and answers …
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There’s Both Too Much And Not Enough Attention
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 …
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There Is No New iPhone
Let’s just say it: there is no new iPhone. Every September, Apple rolls out the red carpet, the tech world holds its breath, and yet here we are, staring at what feels like the same device dressed in slightly different …
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Engagement Farming For Reward
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, …
