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THE INTERNET IS A PSYOP

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NME Japan Aug 15, 2025

NME Japanが選ぶ今週聴くべきこの曲：2025/8/15
https://nme-jp.com/blogs/159040/
#nmejp #BLOGS #A_Ap_Rocky #Billie_Eilish #Kaytranada #Lil_Wayne #Maroon5 #Olivia_Dean #The_Hives #The_Internet

NME Japanが選ぶ今週聴くべきこの曲：2025/8/15 | NME Japan

NME Japanでは今週リリースされた楽曲やアルバムからのオススメ曲をお伝えしていきます。ニュース記事と合わせてチェックしてみてください。...

NME Japan Aug 15, 2025

スティーヴ・レイシー、ニュー・シングル“Nice Shoes”の音源が公開
https://nme-jp.com/news/159014/
#nmejp #NEWS #New_Song #The_Internet

スティーヴ・レイシー、ニュー・シングル“Nice Shoes”の音源が公開 | NME Japan

スティーヴ・レイシーはニュー・シングル“Nice Shoes”の音源が公開されている。...

Hacker News May 28, 2025

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/why-good-ideas-die-quietly-and-bad-ideas-go-viral
#ycombinator #the_internet #technology #sociology #theory

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Antimemetics,” a new book which argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness.

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Hacker News Dec 28, 2024

Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin

A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to manage and store. Netflix tracked heavy users of its service — labeling them internally as “pigs” — and secretly throttled their deliveries. It didn’t matter if Netflix rented fewer DVDs than Blockbuster, because the company would keep collecting its monthly fee. The difference between Blockbuster and Netflix was this: Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless.

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