Tokimeki Unfollow lijkt een geweldig handige tool: Take a deep breath! Let’s look at your follows together, one by one, and think about if each one still sparks joy, intrigue, inspiration, or is in any way still important to you. If not, hit that Unfollow button! Ik deed het een tijdje geleden zelf manueel: (via […]

Epische longread van Robert Kagan als opinie voor The Washington Post: Much more is at risk than our privacy. We have been living with the comforting myth that the great progress we have witnessed in human behavior since the mid-20th century, the reductions in violence, in the brutality of the state, in torture, in mass […]

Kevin Roose op The New York Times: There is no offline equivalent of the experience of being algorithmically nudged toward a more strident version of your existing beliefs, or having an invisible hand steer you from gaming videos to neo-Nazism. The internet is now the place where the seeds of extremism are planted and watered, […]

Casey Newton op The Verge: When the history of Facebook is written, mark down March 14th, 2019 as the end of the News Feed era. Cox helped design the first iterations of the News Feed and oversaw it during its most successful phase. It will not disappear overnight, and at its enormous scale may demonstrate […]

Vox: The streaming revolution, which promised to break down lots of barriers in the TV industry, is beginning to morph into something else. And what it’s morphing into looks a lot more like … traditional television.

Een kortfilm waarin het verhaal van The Fresh Prince wordt herschreven als een nogal donker en dramatische versie. Smaakt naar meer:

Er is iemand op YouTube die stukjes uit verschillende aflevering van The Simpsons aan mekaar monteert om nieuwe, veel donkerdere clips te maken. Geniaal. Zoals deze over Michael Jackson:

Stephen L. Carter op Bloomberg: The very inwardness of cancel culture creates its moral appeal. The movement becomes more insidious, however, when it marches beyond the borders of nonparticipation and into the realm of prohibition. This has arguably happened in young adult fiction, where social media campaigns can lead to the postponement or even cancellation […]