Avoid
“Brands actively engaged in the enshittification playbook. Licensing models, post-acquisition cost-cutting, brand equity being extracted.” /via Phil

Moving Image Archive
A searchable library of archival films.

Source: reilly dolan /via 31 Days of Halloween

Dark Forestry > I’m tired, boss.

What doesn’t get cheaper > “the work of gathering consensus, sequencing decisions, and unifying expectations costs exactly what it has always cost. That part hasn’t moved at all.”

Erin Vest’s art is dreamy.

gracejli.com is fun. I suggest clicking that teleport button.

Some links for your Friday buttondown.com/things/ar…

Some things I liked this week: buttondown.com/things/ar…

Dan Sinker on social media > “Because logging in after a while away, it was painfully clear just how broken it all was. All the things that made social media so vital a decade or two ago have fallen apart, replaced by algorithms, engagement hacks, and endless, bottomless, screaming.”