“Everything feels too intimate, too aggressive; the interfaces that were intended to cheerfully connect us to the world have instead spawned fear and alienation,” wrote Jia Tolentino in an _...Read More_

Former streaming service subscribers on why they have ditched mod cons for MP3s, CDs and other DIY music formats

>"If you can think of it, there’s probably a reality show about it. The surplus has taken the genre into the surreal."

>"People get distracted, hit pause, never finish. It seems hopeless—but it’s not as dire as it sounds."

>"Viewers are overloaded with content. And as Netflix and other major services are now learning, blind excess comes at a cost."

>"They are a radio-ready band thriving in the streaming era."

"LimeWire has been bought up by an entrepreneurial duo in Austria — brothers Paul and Julian Zehetmayr — with the intention of transforming it into an NFT marketplace.The _...Read More_

"In 2020, a twenty-two-year-old rapper from Baton Rouge brought in nearly as much streaming revenue as Taylor Swift did. Why haven’t most people heard of him?"

[https://meaninglessfashion.substack.com/p/stream-queens?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=](https://meaninglessfashion.substack.com/p/stream-queens?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=) "Most connoisseurs of trashy television value poor taste, particularly when it comes to over-the-top styling. Yet when Netflix’s _...Read More_

n the age of streaming, public libraries offer small-scale alternatives for local archiving. “digital public space,” a phrase that says as much about contemporary digital norms as it does about potential futures they’re helping to build.

In the second part of his essay about the current age of music streaming and the implications of this regime, Tobi Müller wonders how the music itself might have changed. How did it all become so personal? What did we lose along the way? _...Read More_

The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace. By Glen Greenwald. While AOC's revolutionary and subversive socialist gown generated buzz, the normalization of maskless elites attended to by _...Read More_

>"Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge has decided to leave Amazon’s upcoming Mr. and Mrs. Smith series. She was originally set _...Read More_

"The Funimation-Crunchyroll deal represents a big shift for the industry and the latest twist in the streaming wars."