Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022

i’m in a film studies class this semester on documentaries related to genocides and with every reading we read i feel like i’m getting closer to being able to fully articulate the thoughts i’ve been having about the Internet’s role at this current moment, and how it diffuses— yoona (@TabiOrNotTabi) February 9, 2024

kids play *with* technology in a funny waylike mine just made a discord server for their made up onion-worshipping religion and put a bot in there as pastor, they're currently pretending to be little onion cult evangelists and inviting family to the server— lisatomic (@lisatomic5) November 30, 2023

I keep seeing people talk about the Meta Glasses & “the next iPhone moment” THE NEXT IPHONE MOMENT IS NOT IN THIS WAVE OF HARDWAREWe are returning to hardware multiplicity. Or what I call “INDIE HARDWARE” The iPhone represented a convergence momentNEXT IS AN EXPLOSION!!! pic.twitter.com/0FyJLcue8k— 🌀 (@HipCityReg) September 28, 2023

Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory.Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast.This is unreal pic.twitter.com/8rig77MGuR— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) August 20, 2023

Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) December 5, 2022

“A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories.”

The millennial formula to building brands (hollow vessels) is topplingThose who (wastefully) slapped condescending design language on a thing we already had & sold it to back to us (via Obama-era optimism) are being punished for their willful wrongdoinghttps://t.co/v4hllwIMMU— hugh francis (@_HHFF) August 10, 2022