Sunday Morning Reading

A few loose threads in this edition of Sunday Morning Reading. Yes, that’s a bad attempt at headlining what’s going on in the social media universe after the release of Threads by Meta. But hey, if you’re interested there’s also pieces on our inevitable extinction driven by our pursuits of pleasure along with a piece of how we can possibly slow down aging.

We seem to want everything to replace everything else when something new happens. Watts Martin takes on Threads vs Mastodon in You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon. 

Scott Galloway also takes on the Threads thing in Threadzilla. Good read for context and what’s going on in the moment.

And while not exactly Threads related but certainly Threads adjacent, David French has an excellent piece about how Twitter Shows, Again, the Failure of the New Right’s Theory of Power.

And to move away from Threads, did you know The Pursuit of Pleasure Could Doom All Intelligent Life To A Bllissful Extinction?

But not to worry about extinction. Go ahead and pursue pleasure. Madeline Fitzgerald tells us that Harvard Researchers Claim They’ve Found the Chemical Cocktail That Reverses Aging.

And back on the Artificial Intelligence beat, here’s a bit from Benji Edwards on Why AI Detectors Think The US Constitution Was Written By AI.

If you’re interseted in just what the heck Sunday Morning Reading is all about you can read more about the origins of Sunday Morning Reading here.