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Hi there, my name is Ryan Broderick and I write Garbage Day.
It’s a Webby Award-winning newsletter about the internet and it comes out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I was also a featured Substack publication in 2022, which is where this newsletter used to live until, you know, all the drama…
Anyways, everyone loves to blame every bad thing that happens these days on the internet. And to be honest, most of it is true. But the web is still good and this newsletter is your regular reminder that, actually, being online is still pretty fun!
Garbage Day is for folks that remember growing up in the west wild of AIM and Kazaa and message boards and know that, even though it’s probably politically destabilized most of the planet, the internet can still good and fun.
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Here’s A Big List Of Garbage Day Press Clips
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It? (The New York Times)
Why are there so many AI images of Jesus on social media? (Insights Magazine)
The British royal family learns that if you don't fill an information vacuum, someone else will (The Washington Post)
How Instagram Got Its Mojo Back (Business Insider)
A Looming TikTok Ban, a Royal Photoshop Mystery and Your Snitching Car (The New York Times)
America Will Be Fine Without TikTok (The Atlantic)
Could Swifties or Trekkies Decide the Election? (The New York Times)
Arc browser's new AI-powered 'pinch-to-summarize' feature is clever, but often miss the mark (TechCrunch)
Meta is downplaying “political content.” Here's what that really means. (The Washington Post)
What the News and the Pews Have in Common (The New York Times)
Joe Biden's TikTok Troubles (New York Magazine)
Why Republicans Can't Shake Taylor Swift Off (The New Republic)
The discourse around Gen Z aging is getting old, an expert argues. In some ways, he says, they're actually behind. (Yahoo! News)
Mocked as 'Pokémon With Guns,' Palworld Becomes an Instant Hit (The New York Times)
Major tech blog quits Substack over Nazi content (The Washington Post)
Parenting expert Emily Oster leaves Substack. (The Verge)
A Holiday's Worth of Video Essays (Hyperallergic)
How Beauty Trends Met Their End (Allure)
Elon Musk, TikTok and the social media ownership problem (The Washington Post)
Is Bin Laden Really Going Viral With the Kids? (New York Magazine)
Is TikTok Really Boosting Pro-Palestinian Content? (Rolling Stone)
The GOP should consider that its opponents aren't simply brainwashed (The Washington Post)
Elon Musk’s X hits a tipping point, with widespread condemnation of misinformation about Hamas’ attack on Israel flooding the platform (Media Matters For America)
From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters (The Guardian)
Twitter is dead, but what about me? (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Here are the right-wing figures who demanded Elon Musk reinstate a Twitter conspiracy theorist who posted child sexual abuse imagery (Media Matters For America)
What if the next big social media app is ... Nothing? (Irish Examiner)
Who is the TikTok creator making popcorn with her hair straightener? It’s all part of the TikTok LIVE community (Yahoo News)
Meta’s Threads Is More of the Same Social Networking (New Yorker)
What the crisis at CNN means (Semafor)
ChatGPT plug-ins will transform how consumers interact with brands online (Insider Intelligence)
Bluesky is the latest Twitter wannabe. Can it avoid the Nazi problem? (San Francisco Chronicle)
What’s after the social media era in news? (The Verge)
‘It seems like a lose-lose situation for creators’: Elon Musk’s latest Twitter verified policy leaves smaller creators with an impossible choice (The Daily Dot)
They’re ‘skeets’ now (The Verge)
Online Fakery and Digital Bank Runs Are a Scary Mix (The Washington Post)
An AI-generated puffy-coat pope fooled us all. How much does it matter? (The Washington Post)
The ‘Tumblrification’ of social media (The Daily Dot)
The Year That Was and Wasn't (The Morning News)
2022 Was The Year Tech Did A 180 (BuzzFeed News)
Viral chatbot ChatGPT will be overhyped, then overlooked, and then, perhaps, essential (Business Insider)
The SEC Wants More Stock Auctions (Bloomberg)
Saluting in Solidarity (New York Times)
Brazilians joining Indian Twitter clone because it sounds like Portugese slang for a**hole (Indy100)
Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh (The Atlantic)
But where will we tweet? (Vox)
Musk has a decision to make on Section 230: Does he support it or not? (The Washington Post)
How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter (The Atlantic)
Will Musk tank Twitter? Probably — but it might not matter (Toronto Star)
Facebook closes down service it hoped would compete with Substack (Washington Post)
TikTok Is the New King of Social Media. Now What? (New York Magazine)
What Is a 'Fake' Artist in 2022? (New York Times)
Tate, TikTok and toxic trends: ‘Alpha males’ are on the rise – but why aren’t we more worried? (Metro)
How Elon Musk Became the Internet's New Main Character (Vanity Fair)
How 'Minions' Became a Gen Z TikTok Storm (Washington Post)
Layer of bloodthirsty online aesthetics obscures how far-right forces fueled Highland Park terrorist (Daily Kos)
The ‘GentleMinions’ trend, explained (Polygon)
TikTok Has a Problem (The Atlantic)
Not another Will Smith think piece (The Digital Fix)
The Complete Guide to Will Smith Slap Takes (New York Magazine)
Pringles’ Twitter Account Is Being Spammed With Bizarre Donkey Kong ‘Cock Blast’ Meme (The Mary Sue)
Russia’s diminishing information access (Columbia Journalism Review)
What’s In This Guy’s Soup (Gawker)
Ukraine, viral media, and the scale of war (Columbia Journalism Review)
Trumpism has arrived in Canada (National Observer)
Staying cool: For the TikTok generation, it requires relentless commitment (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Clickbait, conspiracy theories and hate speech: Facebook has become a hellscape – and there’s no way out (The Independent)
The ‘Freedom Convoy’ and the press (Columbia Journalism Review)
Of platforms, publishers, and responsibility (Columbia Journalism Review)
The information war over Ukraine (Columbia Journalism Review)
Couch Guy to West Elm Caleb: Inside the making of a TikTok villain (Washington Post)
West Elm Caleb Was an Algorithmic Trap (Jezebel)
Omicron Crypto Is a Bet on Attention (Bloomberg)
Facebook is enlisting TikTok personalities like Khaby Lame to promote its metaverse after Reels couldn’t create its own stars (Business Insider Australia)
Welcome To The Age Of Newstalgia (Refinery29 UK)
Modern-Day Sin-Eaters (Psychology Today)
How Long Will Twitter Cling to Its Dumbest Feature? (The Atlantic)
What is the metaverse? (Quartz)
My Internet: Ryan Broderick (Embedded)
How Viral Recipes Shut Out BIPOC Food Creators (Food & Wine)
The Internet’s Shrek Obsession Will Live on Forever (The Ringer)
Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack (New York Times)
How easy it is to spread misinformation via an all-too-willing media (Silicon Republic)
Tucker Carlson keeps attacking a New York Times reporter after the paper calls his tactics ‘calculated and cruel’ (Washington Post)
The latest culture war is over the sexy 'Space Jam' rabbit Lola Bunny and her new toned-down design (Insider)
Millennials are writing cringey Gen Z diss tracks on TikTok, and they're getting roasted (Business Insider)
Facebook Is Hated — and Rich (New York Times)
What is a Blockchain? Is It Hype? (New York Times)
Far-right extremists take over UK land sales Facebook page (The Guardian)
The best newsletters you missed in 2020 (Wired Italy)
Etsy removes Proud Boy merchandise (The Verge)
A playbook for combating QAnon (New York Times)
The 80 Best Single-Operator Newsletters (InsideHook)