The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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SM64’s Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All
youtube.comComplete thorough analysis of Mario 64’s invisible walls. How they occur, detailing every single invisible all instance in every single level.
OpenAI Training Bot Crawls ‘World's Lamest Content Farm’ 3 Million Times in One Day
404media.coSpotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
techcrunch.comFINALLY. This is the only AI feature that was inevitable in any app, and I’ve been waiting soooooo long.
Your World of Text
yourworldoftext.comInfinite canvas of editable multi-user text
Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple
pluralistic.netIt's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly
newyorker.com…Cal Newport argues that we need to recognize the harms that technology has on us and our minds, and that it might be time to more aggressively curate the tools we allow in our lives.
Scott Nesbitt
The Dead Internet to Come
thenewatlantis.comA vague dread grips you. Why is everything a little bit different now? The smallest details are wrong. Your favorite posters have vanished from all platforms. There haven’t been any new memes for some time, only recycled iterations of old ones. Influencers are coordinated in their talking points like puppets being pulled by the same strings. Your favorite niche YouTuber has only recently been posting new content with any regularity. Is this a message? Is this what schizophrenia is like?
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
wheresyoured.atWe’re at the end of a vast, multi-faceted con of internet users, where ultra-rich technologists tricked their customers into building their companies for free. And while the trade once seemed fair, it’s become apparent that these executives see users not as willing participants in some sort of fair exchange, but as veins of data to be exploitatively mined as many times as possible, given nothing in return other than access to a platform that may or may not work properly.
Yet what’s happening to the web is far more sinister than simple greed, but the destruction of the user-generated internet, where executives think they’ve found a way to replace human beings making cool things with generative monstrosities trained on datasets controlled and monetized by trillion-dollar firms.
Their ideal situation isn’t one where you visit distinct websites with content created by human beings, but a return to the dark ages of the internet where most traffic ran through a series of heavily-curated portals operated by a few select companies, with results generated based on datasets that are increasingly poisoned by generative content built to fill space rather than be consumed by a customer.
Welcome to the future of television
sandwich.visionLED Matrix Earrings
mitxela.comDo Spencer's Vibrators Have Malware on Them? An Investigation
404media.coInclusive Components
inclusive-components.designA blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.