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You’re Wrong About – Napster with Niko Stratis

This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus, Metallica.

How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed

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I wanted to explore the malicious, confusing, and deceitful things that occur after signing up for digital services, as well as how design can nudge us to forget about a free trial or accidentally sign up for things that we didn’t intend to.

Dark patterns are often most egregious with subscriptions and free trials, especially when attempting to cancel, so I focused on those.

Peeta

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Another Kind of Time

emergencemagazine.org

In this conversation, artist and writer Jenny Odell points beyond the domination of clock time toward ways of being that are more in tune with the rhythms and patterns of the Earth.

The Mandalorian S1-3: THIS IS THE WAY Count

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Eyecandy

eycndy.com

Visual technique library.

The Galactic Menagerie

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AI generated mashup of Star Wars and Wes Anderson movies.

The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small

defector.com

Though it makes me feel like a grandmother on her deathbed to admit it, I remember the days when the internet was vast, when there seemed to be more places to go than anyone could ever visit and infinite things to read. What you saw was not determined by some highly protected coded algorithm that lives somewhere in the cloud. You could just go out and find it.