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Apple could not fix that, but it addressed people’s complaints by adjusting the shuffle function: they made their sorting less random in order for it to feel more random.
Typography Is Impossible. The Practical Guide to Why Laying Out… | by Marcin Wichary | Medium Engineering
medium.engineering
The fact that “Severance” streams on Apple, and that its aesthetic is pointedly Jobsian, is a relevant irony. We love our iPhones, but we’d rather not think about what it takes to make them.
“Severance” Is Sci-Fi for the Soul
newyorker.com
Caught between the easy profitability of network effects and growing anger over toxicity, the big social media platforms turned to centralized moderation. Unsurprisingly, this didn’t work. Not only was it an impossible task for the moderators themselves, but it meant that the management of the company was basically required to take an editorial slant. That effectively wrecked the image of the social media companies. And because Twitter’s editorial slant leaned slightly left-of-center, this made conservatives especially mad. Facebook, realizing the impossibility of the task, finally just decided to move its feed away from news entirely; Twitter, of course, couldn’t do this.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
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