I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t
There is a human being who choses which stories get BREAKING NEWS push notifications. There is a human being who lays out the front page of the newspaper. These are all choices of what to cover and emphasize and what not to cover and emphasize.
I feel bad for people that think this is a serious political analysis rather than revenge for the irrelevance the Times has been correctly relegated to by the Biden admin.
Whenever I see people talking about enshittification I’m reminded that doctorow complained about his posts not being as popular on Twitter as one of the primary examples. it’s just complaining gussied up as some kind of unifying theory of the internet.
Got zero trick-or-treaters and now people are posting on ring and next door begging people to trick or treat on their block…America’s swag is gone apparently 😩