This week's best things
Melbourne Recital Hall's rebrand, Zuckerberg's MAGA pivot, the ongoing impact of AI on search, weird tech at CES, pinball restoration, and some Czechoslovak classics.
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social media
A collection of 43 issues
This week's best things
A site-specific digital exhibition at The Whitney, finding Twitter users on Bluesky, what makes a good newsletter, Claude takes control of your computer, the start of the internet, looking back at Wired's first website, changes at Google, an analysis of Meta, Courses from Spotify
This week's best things
Generative poetry, AI hypocrisy, women in tech leadership, immersive funding, access to French 3D scans, new AirPod features, teenage burnout, TikTok harms, GTA Paisley, perceptions of time, and a load of TV
This week's best things
Gen Z's regrets about social media, Adam Koszary thinks it has value, Google's AI search fails, replicating handwriting with AI, the importance of generalists, a story about Gmail, Netflix's endless library, unparliamentary language, and an interview with Clare Reddington.
This week's best things
An experiment from the BBC, should orchestras be more like Netflix, thoughts on what happens next with search, Instagram makes teen accounts private by default, a psychologist on how to deal with social media, thoughts on AI, is this blue, a good book, and a superb video installation.
This week's best things
Ideas for purpose-driven leadership, trying to solve linkrot, the state of social media in 2024, design systems for neurodiverse users, immersive exhibitions, the emoji kitchen, how to leave Twitter, the first hashtag, ways of sharing data, AI invades internet dating, and more.
This week's best things
The continuing role of email in discovery, a magazine from WeTransfer, screentime guidance in Sweden, a visual archive of tapes, an AI-powered music scam, Telegram updates its moderation policies, and Douglas Adams on technology.
This week's best things
Google is under threat for the first time in a long time, what your smartphone knows about you, background on the arrest of the Telegram CEO, a survey on digital accessibility, One Million Checkboxes, and a strange Korean website.
This week's best things
How we ended up with our social feeds, a visual search engine, building effective hybrid working environments, some dystopian AI nonsense, and photographing mirros
This week's best things
Goldman Sachs question the AI hype, semiconductors over farming, tiny microphones, crisis comms, German web design, human seasons, Monglian uniforms, and a 3.6km-long slackline