The Saturday Selection, Vol. 64
Featuring feral towns, summer dating, and dead Internet theory.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why are these interesting?
Why You Are Reading Reddit a Lot More These Days (New York)
“The Web from which Reddit grew has been going through something akin to ecological collapse after being poisoned, then abandoned, by advertisers that have little use for independent websites anymore.”
A Reddit Thread About Spotify’s Fake Artist Mood Music Playlists (Reddit)
Speaking of! Finding this Reddit thread, and my general boredom with Spotify’s (I feel increasingly pathetic) user experience made me want to buy Liz Pelly’s book. Though this story, about stalking other people’s Spotify playlists, was fun.
The Town That Went Feral (The New Republic)
When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
In Defense of the Traditional Review (The New Yorker)
“What’s left is the curse and the shrug of the “interesting”—a nonaesthetic approach that puts art before readers as a curiosity, as a set of talking points rather than as a form of personal experience, of devotion, of passion.” BARS.
How Much Can Your Love Life Change in One Summer? (Slate)
Death, Sex & Money followed the dating lives of eight listeners to find out.
