Aaron brings Robert and Rachel through the horrors of venture capital, Meta's quarterly reports, and the enshittification of the web.
Music by Daniel Griggs.
READ THIS STUFF:
- A funny Tweet about how shitty the Internet is.
- How Venture Capital Works, Harvard Business Review
- How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions, Harvard Business Review
- Competition is for Losers, Peter Thiel in the Wall Street Journal
- Facebook's culpability in genocide
- Meta's financial report
- The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Internet Next Week, Legal Eagle
- How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (or Family, Customers, or Communities), Cory Doctorow and the EFF
- TikTok's enshittification, Cory Doctorow
- Content Moderation is Infosec, Cory Doctorow
- A series of studies on the ease with which tech companies spread misinformation
- The Internet's video focus is based on a lie, Slate
- Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things, Catherynne M. Valente
- Social Media and Algorithms, PBS Nova