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Going Postal

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.

Max Read Bookforum Sep 2020 Permalink

Tech

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

Max Read New York Dec 2018 10min Permalink

Tech

Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

Examining the future of the massive social media site.

Max Read New York Oct 2017 20min Permalink