• you should watch bad movies & not look at ratings

  • Oct 11 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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  • In today's episode, Mina embraces Meg Ryan Fall™, asks the question "do the rats run this city?" (yes they do), her algorithm-induced David Byrne fixation, why review systems are no good (especially Rotten Tomatoes), what it means to be a "content creator" (barf?????), and online friendship etiquette.

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    Reading/sources list:
    New York's Rats Have Already Won - The Atlantic
    The Mongolia cashmere quote I mentioned is actually from this New Yorker article from 1999: The Crisis in Cashmere | The New Yorker
    Talking Heads on the Return of ‘Stop Making Sense’ - The New York Times
    The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
    Emma Thompson Is Right: The Word ‘Content’ Is Rude - The New York Times
    The New Rules Of Friendship Online
    Group-Chat Culture Is Out of Control - The Atlantic
    Milk Experiment
    Re: Google search engine results, the Wired article I read and got information from has been taken down since recording: A Note From WIRED Leadership
    Here’s another article regarding Google interference - not sure if they do exactly what Wired first reported on, but still sounds bad whatever they’re doing: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results - WSJ
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