The Trumpification of Elon Musk
[ad_1] Around the time Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I said to colleagues in the newsroom where I worked at the time that we shouldn’t cover everything he said…
Please Stop Freaking Out About This Giant Yellow Spider
[ad_1] Native to East Asia, Jorōs are one of many so-called golden orb weavers, named after the shiny silk they use to spin webs (which can be a whopping 10…
TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm—It’s Your Phone
[ad_1] TikTok’s ascent to becoming the most popular site on the internet has sparked endless discussions about its stickiness—as if it were capable of hacking our normal cognitive pathways and…
All the Free Resources You Can Find at Your Library
[ad_1] If libraries didn’t already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity…
Streamers Use Playlists to Control the Music Industry
[ad_1] Paul Johnson’s life was like any other struggling musician’s—working multiple jobs, picking up gigs, hustling. Then his warm acoustic folk-pop tune “Firework” made it on to one of Spotify’s…
Facebook Freeloads Off Newspapers. This Plan Might Stop It
[ad_1] What happened next, though, was telling: The Australian measure passed—and Google and Facebook did indeed pay up, remunerating Australian news companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. The news…
Humanity’s Biggest Problems Require a Whole New Media Mode
[ad_1] Our media systems are at their limits. From climate change to Covid, the most pressing phenomena of our times cannot be captured by the flat media paradigm we’ve built…