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2021-09-18 DIGEST: FUTURES, GENIUS, AND WORKERS
In the past week we found 3,135 unique links from 217 emails, sourcing from 87 newsletters.
The most linked story of the week was Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show.
As seen in 17 newsletters; 1440, Axios Log-In, Axios Log-In, Big Technology, Hacker News, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Numlock News, Techmeme, The Cramm, The Hustle Daily, The Media Today, The Skimm, Warning: Graphic Content.
7-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF APPEARANCE RATE OF TOP LINKS IN THE PAST MONTH
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in 1440, Axios Log-In, Axios Log-In, Big Technology, Hacker News, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Numlock News, Techmeme, The Cramm, The Hustle Daily, The Media Today, The Skimm, Warning: Graphic Content.
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in Austin Kleon, Creative Mornings, Fair Warning, Hacker News, Internet Brunch, Links I Would Gchat You, Rusty's Electric Dreams, The Breads.
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in Box Of Amazing, Journal, Longform, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Media Today, The Sunday Long Read, Today In Tabs, Welcome To Hell World.
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in Arts and Leisure Daily, Box Of Amazing, Deez Links, Journal, Longform, TMN Headlines, The Media Today, The Sunday Long Read, Weekly Filet, Why Is This Interesting?.
The Times Square Margaritaville Resort Is an Unlikely Balm for a Restless Mind
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in Garbage Day, Links, Morning Brew, Newley's Notes, Public Announcements, Ritholtz's Reads, Shit from the Internet, TMN Headlines, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Sunday Long Read, Today In Tabs.
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in API Need To Know, Axios Log-In, Axios Log-In, Big Technology, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Numlock News, Platformer, Techmeme, The Hustle Daily, The Media Today, The Media Today.
The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in Digg, Garbage Day, Links I Would Gchat You, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, P.S. You Should Know, Ritholtz's Reads, Techmeme, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Sunday Long Read, Today In Tabs.
A link from how-i-experience-web-today.com...
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Aug 19 Sep 18
As seen in Creative Mornings, Curious Electric News, Garbage Day, Hacker News, Morning Brew, P.S. You Should Know, Secret Email Club, Swissmiss, TMN Headlines, Warning: Graphic Content.
THREE RANDOM LINKS THAT APPEARED JUST ONCE THIS MONTH
Watch Billy Joel Bring Out Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik For "Iris" In Buffalo
As seen in Public Announcements.
As seen in Sentiers.
Sourcing from the following newsletters: 10 Things, 1440, 2PM, 5 Smart Reads, 5-Bullet Friday, API Need To Know, Arts and Leisure Daily, Austin Kleon, Axios Log-In, Axios World, Below The Fold, Benedict Evans, Big Technology, Box Of Amazing, Brain Food, Brain Pickings, Brass Ring Daily, Chiwi Journal, Creative Mornings, Curiosity Weekly, Curious Electric News, Daily Pnut, Deez Links, Digg, Domestic Data Streamers, Electric Speed, Elevator, Etcetera, Everything in Moderation, Fair Warning, Finding Beauty, Five Links, Five Things, Fives Best Ideas Of The Day, Garbage Day, Girls' Night In, Hacker News, Hand-Picked, Internet Brunch, Jocelyn K. Glei, Journal, Lily Lines, Links, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Lorem Ipsum, Matt's Thoughts In Between, Media Genius, Milk, No Sugar, Monday Musings, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Newley's Notes, Next Draft, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, Noah Kalina, Non-Obvious, Nonostantement, Noticing, Numlock News, P.S. You Should Know, Platformer, Pluralistic, Pop Culture Happy Hour, PopBitch, Public Announcements, Recomendo, Ritholtz's Reads, Rusty's Electric Dreams, Secret Email Club, Sentiers, Shit from the Internet, Slugs, Spark Edition, Storythings, Strands of Genius, Swissmiss, TMN Headlines, Techmeme, Tedium, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Breads, The Collected AHP, The Cramm, The Daily Respite, The Friyay Fuel, The Good Trade, The Highlighter, The Hustle Daily, The Land Of Random, The Media Today, The Monday Medley, The Morning Missive, The Skimm, The Sunday Long Read, The TueDo List, The What, The Whippet, Today In Tabs, Tom Scott, WTF Just Happened Today?, Warning: Graphic Content, Weekly Filet, Welcome To Hell World, What Happened Last Week?, Why Is This Interesting?.
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Data for the charts are computed, including a a 7-day rolling average of rate of newsletter appearances. Title tags are grabbed from the links meta data, and common nouns are extracted here, and randomly chosen to create the subject line. Finally, all the content is rendered (daily to this page, and weekly to an email blast).
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