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the life and death of online platforms

piece that explores our collective relationship with algorithmically driven platforms and theorizing why non-algorithmically driven platforms haven't caught on yet (PI.FYI mentioned ‼️). some of the references and moments in the writing style makes this article feel hollow and generic, but the overall conceit is engaging. also this article (and the general public alike) keep saying tumblr is dead but tumblr is very alive for me personally. "Just kidding. There is no pure place: we crave the end because it seems cleaner on the other side. We all live,and have always lived, in the muck—even and especially after death. Download the niche app, participate in the empty-ish forum. Labor to make the experience you want. Labor to animate a human internet."

@veggiedumpling

Mar 6, 2024

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THE CULTURE WAR, ALGORITHM FODDER, GENERALIZATIONS

everything is politics. from vaccines to lgbt matters, politicians have leveraged the things conservative americans don’t understand to stoke fear and confusion. this isn’t anything new. what is new is the algorithms that reenforce those fears. comment sections we’re told to treat like real conversation just flooded with faceless accounts saying their most vile inside thoughts. it’s easy to want to interact and easier to just read it all and be mad. but every second spent engaging is another brain scrambling distraction. these sensationalized posts and comments do nothing for education, understanding, or empathy. even on the left, slacktivism actively hurts the cause. theres an idea that someone who holds ignorant beliefs is *bad* in all politicized fields. but let’s be real, just because uncle jeff is pissed about tuck underwear it doesn’t mean he’s a climate change denier. generalizing people is exactly what politicians want from us. social issues are important and politics aren’t going away from that any time soon. but social media is a slippery slope and i personally refuse to engage. when it bleeds into my real life (”parents just WANT their kids to be trans”) i try to engage in conversations that get to the root of the issue. where’s this info coming from, why do you believe that? these are the kind of questions strangers won’t ask them on the internet. misinformation is a sickness that we’re all plagued with. to find some truth and understanding we cannot be having these discussions on platforms like facebook or instagram or twitter. if we do, we’re just giving these tech ceos and politicians what they need: engagement and fear

@roogby

4d ago

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ON SINCERITY VS. IRONY

(edited from an article on argo nuff) What We Often See As The Most Cringe Content Displays Someone Leaning Way Too Far Into Either End Of Sincerity/Irony, And As Soon As You Start Paying Attention The Shit Is Everywhere; Edgelords Doing "Dark Humor" In Instagram Reels Comment Sections, Infographics About Which Grocery Store Brands Are Actually Zionist And What Gofundme's To Donate To Fight This, 3 Hour Video Essays About Socialist Themes In JRPGS And Those Who React To It By Sitting In Gamer Chair And Going "Woah, Chat" Every 5 Minutes. Both Shitposts And Calls To Action By Nature Get Equal Amount Of Space In The Attention Economy Of The Internet, Meaning Everything On The Internet Is Equally Important As It Is Worthless. And For A Lot Of Screen Dwellers That Dynamic Is Literally All They Know And It Fuuuuuuuucks You Up, Big Time.

@argonuff

3d ago

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"that's us / wild combination" – arthur russell

about a year ago a friend of mine was going around asking people what they felt to be the "most romantic" song, and this was my gut response. There's just something so sweet about the scene at play here... nothing dramatic is happening, it's just a moment of stillness (thru movement?) in a relationship – maybe it's even just a friendship – that defines the baseline of what romance at its best should feel like. I find Arthur's good at that

@_loegan

Jan 5, 2024

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8 hours of vintage department store christmas music tapes

"Ambient music should accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." – Brian Eno Christmas falls on a Monday this year, which means many of us have had to put in a full work week. At approximately 5pm today, we'll suddenly need to turn on our holiday brain – RELAX! we'll scream at ourselves. What better to induce a Xanax-like state of absent-minded – yet still holiday-related – bliss than corporate muzak? Whatever holiday-related ambience you're trying to cultivate or salvage, this may just be the absolutely perfect soundtrack ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKlEkKXBzQ

@_loegan

Dec 22, 2023

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ELI enis' exploration of the gen z-driven shoegaze boom

"So how did we get here? How did shoegaze, a genre short on hooks, memorable riffs, and magnetic personalities, that’s carried on as a niche strain of indie music since the initial wave of ‘gazers receded from the limelight in the mid-’90s, suddenly become a defining sound for Gen-Z rock fans?" Important and fascinating cover of a very real phenomenon. Part of what I found most fascinating is the compositional aspects of this new wave, which sees The Kids employing recording techniques more typically associated with pop songwriting – toplining to a "band" track created by a separate producer. https://www.stereogum.com/2245469/tiktok-has-made-shoegaze-bigger-than-ever/columns/sounding-board

@_loegan

Dec 19, 2023