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I write about humans, tech, and culture, and about what I learned working for Slack, Spotify, and Instagram. But you’re probably here for photos of my cat Lumpy. You should go read my newsletter at www.leahreich.com

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 14d

My newsletter today is about algorithms, culture, and celebrity beef. It's about how we're all complicit in this current festering cultural moment of ours.

It features one of my spiciest theories ever that I do not want to spoil. So please click and read.

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Algorithmic Beef

Depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may not yet be aware that another virulent Twitter (please don't make me call it X) fight erupted last night between rap superstars Nicki Minaj and ...

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 2h

The bar is so low

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 21h

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

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You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 3h

Genuinely the most surprising thing in this whole article is that this guy didn’t call women “females”

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 11h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

quotes from cybertruck owners

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Pat McDermott @twinsetpat.bsky.social · 8h

For AI skeptics, this post by @leahreich.com sums up concerns
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You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 6h

Also Israel's obit for D'Angelo is tremendous. We're flooding the zone! defector.com/waiting-on-d...

Waiting On D'Angelo | Defector

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” This is from Psalms 23:4, a classic prayer about God...

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 6h

product leadership barely listened to user research when we actually had jobs, and then the industry gutted user research

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

@vintageobscura.net ooooh are you gonna put this on a playlist?? I have other songs for it if you need 'em

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

My parents asked the woman who ran the B&B where we should go and she said "oh, there's a stuffed animal museum" so you can imagine what I was expecting

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

I don't remember it but I can imagine. I should go back, it's been (oh god) over 40 years.

My least favorite place – one I am now very glad I got to see, even if it traumatized me at the time – was Walter Potter's Museum of Curiosities

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

My family had gone to England for a week earlier in the summer, and one of my favorite places was Corfe Castle. The play was, you might be surprised to learn, about the siege and destruction of the castle

My other favorite place was the Tower of London with all the torture instruments

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

I should say wrote *and illustrated* because obviously I did, I was 9 (and none of the college students in the college-level course my mom convinced the instructor to let me take finished or illustrated a play). It was called "The Siege and Destruction of Corfe Castle"

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

This statement is applicable to non-theater work, I've recently learned

I wanted very much to work in the theater as a kid/teenager. Wrote my first (and only) play at age 9 at performing arts camp, then acted when I could, but stupidly quit in college because of a creepy grad student director

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 7h

This makes sense – I noticed the individual elements but didn't put them together that way. It was my first watch, recommended by my friend @brianphillips.bsky.social (big ML fan) because I had run through all the Trollope novels narrated by Timothy West & needed to immerse myself in more Victoriana

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 8h

Oh my god I love this

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 8h

Oh wow, I had no idea! It builds such an extraordinary world that I wanted to spend as much time in it as possible.

Also, if you could tell me what to look out for in terms of the show business angle, I would love that

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 8h

The next time I watch it I'll pay more attention to that aspect of it (I know almost nothing about how show business works). I love the physical world it builds almost as much as I love everything else about it. The physical Victorian world is *so* real – everything looks new, it's all cluttered

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 8h

I just watched Topsy-Turvy the other day and I really wish it had been a 100 episode series rather than a movie

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 8h

I forgot to say: Please report back on your thoughts, and also let me know if you need other condiment recommendations. There is nothing unreasonable about chili crisp-related excitement

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 20h

"Inventory... That's what your content is. That's what you are. That's what the industry discovered in those years between the dot-com bubble and the rise of the new tech giants. They learned that you are their means of production."

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 21h

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...

You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

www.leahreich.com

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 20h

Thank you so much!

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 20h

Next week I’ll call him names if you want

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 20h

Bookmarking as well, thanks!

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 20h

I agree with this, hundo p

This piece was only the start of the argument! There’s lots more to develop and say, but that’s what the book proposal is for? Supposedly??

anothercultland @anothercultland.bsky.social · 20h

i had just read it & was coming online to say that you had nailed it...

but there is still is one more factor to include:

desperation

there's no real development going on - just greater & greater levels of extraction - and the hand-waving to hide that

you can't squeeze blood from a rock

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20h

Good piece, recommended.

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 21h

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...

You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

www.leahreich.com

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 20h

Thank you!