A young woman at a SXSW event called The Lighthouse (where I was a paid contributor) said something that reframed how I understand an entire generation’s relationship with the internet. She described growing up inside an algorithmic sorting machine that analyzed her interests faster than she could develop them, fed them back to her in a relentless loop,…
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When Gen Z Makes Jokes, They're Screaming
What we've been getting wrong about how that generation uses the internet — and it connects to everything.
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We're in the invisible grip of technology, politics, and our own weirdness. We gotta get better at seeing it.
Hosted by veteran journalist Jacob Ward (correspondent for Al Jazeera, PBS, NBC News, and CNN), The Rip Current is your guide to spotting the hidden forces at work in our lives and getting across them safely.
Each week we speak to experts in the stuff you didn't know was having an impact on your life, from venture capital to racism to the tried-and-true tactics of bullies, and teach you how to see The Rip Current before it sweeps you out to sea.
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