TIL the word "claptrap" has basically exactly the same meaning as "clickbait", only it comes from theatre

“Everything is gamified. Anything can be scrollable. You can simulate any boat you row. But what does this do to our brains? To our lives? To the future?” An updated version of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-...www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-...

The State of the Culture, 2024

Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

NEW: London Underground quietly tested 11 AI algorithms on thousands of people in a trial lasting a year. This included for spotting crimes and safety issues. This included: using AI to try to detect weapons in stations, spotting aggressive behaviour, and more www.wired.com/story/london...

Bonus whizzy feature going in depth on the historyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/interactive/2024/reggaeton-dembow-evolution-timeline/

How reggaeton became the sound of global pop

In an interactive timeline and video interviews, reggaeton artists break down how the genre has crossed borders and evolved.

Absolutely love this. Make your own reggaeton beat and learn about it too! If they made one for every genre I would devour the lot www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Make your own reggaeton beat

Make and share your own beat to learn reggaeton history, from Jamaican dancehall in the early ’90s to dembow, the rhythm that propels so many pop songs around the world.

Noooo this is why social media needs a dislike button 😭

I think most people underestimate the size of the 'payment hurdle', someone's got to have a really strong affinity with your work to back it with cash, for some types of content that's incredibly difficult/rare joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-cre...

The creator economy can't rely on Patreon. — Joan Westenberg

Interviewer: Describe yourself in two words. Me: concise

That whole thread is just bizarre. It would be canned as a script pitch for being too outlandish

Time is a flat circle etc etc