Kyle Chayka
@chaykak
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staff writer at The New Yorker; author of FILTERWORLD & upcoming HOW TO BE MOVED from Doubleday; work newsletter https://t.co/iELTxgVFJV
Washington, DC
Joined April 2008
My upcoming book FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture got its first review! A star from @KirkusReviews: "Chayka's timely investigation shows how we can reject the algorithms of the digital era and reclaim our humanity." https://t.co/Pyffjc4ev6
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Sad news guys. After over 25 years of support, Google has finally discontinued support for Dreamcast web browsers. ☹️
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📖 > MUNDOFILTRO de @chaykak hoy en #KindleFlash a 3,32€ 🛒 >> https://t.co/S4RYWgShcm | @GEdiciones |
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started with Donghua Jinlong glycene memes now we're here
Imagine buying your kids this plush toy and it starts scolding them for insulting Xi Jinping and demanding they respect the Chinese government’s territorial claims
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Krasznahorkai's whole speech is wry and weird and funny in a way that should be a rebuke to those who take his claim that he is "on the side of the rocks" too seriously
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In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Krasznahorkai thanks "beloved friend" Thomas Pynchon https://t.co/ziJnTSqNm5
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This was the year of the big shift to video podcasts:
my latest @NewYorker column is on the rise of video podcast personality cults and the increasingly performed, emotional, intimate quality of news and discourse when pundits' faces and voices are on display
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the X app turned the Following feed to non-chronological algorithmic recs by default lol
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my latest @NewYorker column is on the rise of video podcast personality cults and the increasingly performed, emotional, intimate quality of news and discourse when pundits' faces and voices are on display
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this format is the epitome of social media / digital media is now tv
Republican consultants are shopping for an anti-AI candidate to run against Vance, says @semaforben "The attack on him will be: he's a tool of the tech industry, of AI guys who want to take your jobs, poison your children's brains, and build weird boxes in your neighborhoods."
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“show face for algorithm” is something media never had to reckon with — and in old media’s case, often pushed against — until facebook and google killed distribution influencers were way ahead, and now writer who never aimed for face time (me) gotta do it
Meet the Observers: Eva Wiseman Eva Wiseman studied art before moving into journalism. After working at The Face, she joined The Observer as an editor, and started writing a column for Observer Magazine in 2010. Eva’s column covers everything from motherhood, the industries
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my latest @NewYorker column is on the rise of video podcast personality cults and the increasingly performed, emotional, intimate quality of news and discourse when pundits' faces and voices are on display
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Ladies, get him what he really wants this year: McMaster-Carr Wood-Top Table, Style C maple top, powder coated steel legs, lockable caster wheels McMaster-Carr Wall-Mount Bin-Box Racks painted steel, assorted colors EBS Handheld Printer Gun, all surfaces, 4 inch print height
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does your newsletter do its own art-directed photo shoots like Magasin does?
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linkedin should be where everyone posts how they actually make money
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"When I started in financial journalism, I assumed that the point of financial markets was to allocate capital to real-world economic uses, and by now I know that the point of financial markets is to create fun opportunities for gambling. What changed my mind was crypto"
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Ask anyone in the industry and they will tell you that Matt is the best news editor full stop. He's a careful, thoughtful, stoic guy who always puts others before himself. He made the news section great. Legend in the game, I'll stake my life on his work
Today, after twelve and a half years with the website, is my last day at Pitchfork. Thank you.
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actual income sources of creative people with “‘mysterious sources of income” -good crypto trader -high value engineer in faang (doesn’t do or go to work either) -alternatively, remote tech employee -parents have generational wealth -in grad school (rich parents) -monthly 5 fig
At the end W. David Marx's Status and Culture, he describes our current state of culture as being defined by 'omnivore tastes'. "The most masterly wardrobes mix vintage Givenchy with Uniqlo" he says. I think this manifests in these 'mysterious source of income' people who, by
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HBO as an add-on to Netflix!
Netflix reiterates it will: > Release WB movies in theaters > Produce WB TV shows for third parties It sounds like it wants to sell HBO as an add-on to Netflix, but company didn't say that outright.
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