Never let me down

The News Feed algorithm is made to serve ads, not please users

Metrics are more shameful than nudity

The threat of automation is a good way to force workers to "love what they do"

Social media caters to the pleasure of being both product and consumer

Learning from Train

You don't control an algorithm by feeding more information to it; you teach it to control you better

The demand for media supplants the demand for stuff

Pinterest demands you shop forever

You can't collect the things, in themselves; you can only collect yourself.

Rather than establish the conditions for self-knowledge, does data destroy them?

Despite its communitarian rhetoric the sharing economy actually promises consumers an escape from community

Farewell, Rod McKuen, may your cities never be so lonesome again

Elvis was a hero to most

Walter Keane didn't let lack of talent stop him from being an artist. That makes him perfect for the post-internet era of appropriation