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damir
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by damir
Yeah unfortunately the forefathers of our media game did us no favors. Bill Simmons + TrueHoop/ESPN did a lot to create the current “NBA is broken industrial complex” that we currently live in. And I grew up on that shit, but it’s easier to see with hindsight those were the seeds that grew.
It's super exhausting
December 4, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by damir
The discussion about the NBA Cup dovetails with one of my latest crusades. “Trying to fix the NBA” has been the media’s main obsession for going on 20 years, even while Stern was still commish. People talking about it needing to be fixed only feeds the false notion that it’s a broken product.
December 4, 2024 at 8:39 PM