Influencers with Taylor Lorenz
“The creatures outside looked from influencer to human, and from human to influencer, and from human to influencer again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Taylor…
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The “IC on the Record” Tumblr was created after the biggest leak in intelligence history.
As Government Technology’s Lindsay Crudele wrote last November, “It took years for Twitter to evolve from a platform for casual lunch updates to a vital tool for public information exchange…
The Best Substack Alternatives
It would be hard to leave Substack, granted. They are a very good, normal company—one that does not at all enable extremism (wink.) Everything Substack does is justified, and good,…
Fake celebrity photo leak videos flood TikTok with Temu referral codes
TikTok is flooded with videos promoting fake nude celebrity photo leaks used to push referral rewards for the Temu online megastore. Temu is an online shopping site offering millions of…
Amazon, Ashton Kutcher And America’s Surveillance Of The Sex Trade
“The cops can go to the media and say, ‘We were able to successfully rescue this woman from sex trafficking,’ when, no, you just spied on a chick,”
Napster With Niko Stratis
This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus,…
Get verified on Mastodon using your WordPress site.
Getting the green-tick in Mastodon is easy if you have a Wordpress site.
Strategic Knowledge
While companies feign ignorance about marginalized users on their sites, these savvy users flip the script, developing strategic knowledge about the platforms they frequent. Strategic knowledge is an imaginative praxis…