Steve Simkins built a site about how the answer to doomscrolling and disconnectedness is Blog Feeds. It’s meant to be an antidote to endlessly scrolling, just a curated list of people you actually care about.
Alexandra Ciufudean explores the IndieWeb, where people’s personal websites are pushing back against the corporate internet.
This documentary Death of a Fantastic Machine explores how photography has shaped our lives, from early photographs to AI-generated images.
Read Pete Wells’s Times article on his experience reviewing restaurants for the last 12 years.
Read Sam Kriss’s article The Internet is already over.
This is some dystopian stuff.
Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses:
Amazon is not the only company that relies on what publicists call “employee advocates.” Lizz Kannenberg, the director of brand strategy at Sprout Social, which advises companies on social media use, said that employee advocacy had developed over the last three to five years.
Bromwich, J. E. (2019, August 15)
This is 100% the fault of June and not the user:
June CEO Matt Van Horn says that owners, not the oven, are at fault. “We’ve seen a few cases where customers have accidentally activated their oven preheat via a device, figure your cell phone,” he tells The Verge. “So imagine if I were to be in the June app clicking recipes and I accidentally tapped something that preheated my oven, we’ve seen a few cases of that.”
Carman, A. (2019, August 14). Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees.