Tag: media platforms

• The Decline of Deviance

  December 14, 2025

  Where has all the weirdness gone? https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-decline-of-deviance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What?

  December 13, 2025

  Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation. https://www.noemamag.com/we-failed-the-misinformation-fight-now-what more ›

• You are not immune to shopaganda | The Verge

  December 13, 2025

  Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter. https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/836456/influencers-tiktok-debt-shopaganda more ›

• How the creator economy destroyed the internet | The Verge

  December 13, 2025

  A series about the devil’s bargain between the people who make things on the internet, the platforms that distribute them, and the way we consume content https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series more ›

• Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document

  December 3, 2025

  Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the “Soul overview”. Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus’ system message… more ›

• Exclusive: CNN strikes prediction data partnership with Kalshi

  December 3, 2025

  The collaboration marks the first major news partnership for Kalshi. https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data more ›

• Inside Hollywood’s AI Freak-Out, Featuring Darren Aronofsky, Natasha Lyonne, Tilly Norwood, and a Lot of Nervous Anonymous Sources | Vanity Fair

  November 28, 2025

  Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology, bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. But the players are having an incredibly hard time being honest about it… more ›

• The economics of dark forest spaces

  November 26, 2025

  In the world of online platforms there’s a well-known pattern called the 90-9-1 rule. It says that in most online spaces, 90% of people silently consume; 9% interact (liking or… more ›

• Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation | Max Woolf’s Blog

  November 25, 2025

  Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit. https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/#hello-nano-banana more ›

• Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

  November 10, 2025

  “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/ more ›