You’d be forgiven for forgetting that Threads existed. It didn’t appear to get even a fraction of the attention that Bluesky got following the election last year. Probably because if you create an app that forces Instagram influencers to read and write you end up building a community that’s even more braindead and radioactive than Bluesky.
Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day
Ouch.
As wealth concentrates, political spending capacity increases, which secures policy outcomes that further concentrate wealth, creating a self-reinforcing cycle that undermines democratic equality. The most dramatic acceleration of this trend occurred after Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the doors to unlimited spending on American elections.
Doom Loop, Scott Galloway
Sexual desire is fire. Without this fire, our species goes out of business. Unfortunately, we’ve built a fire-retardant generation. Zoomers prefer staying home and scrolling to going out, and when they do venture out they’re less likely to visit a bar, reducing the chances they’ll make a series of bad decisions that might pay off.
Porn, Scott Galloway
The MAGA movement, you see, is an internet thing. It’s another vertical online community — a bunch of deracinated, atomized individuals, thinly connected across vast distances by the notional bonds of ideology and identity. There is nothing in it of family, community, or rootedness to a place. It’s a digital consumption good. It’s a subreddit. It is a fandom.
This Thing Will Fail, Noah Smith
JFC
