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2021-01-18 DIGEST: USERS, CHILLS, AND FORTUNES
In the past week we found 2,956 unique links from 219 emails, sourcing from 92 newsletters.
The most linked story of the week was Among the Insurrectionists.
As seen in 9 newsletters; HRDlist, Links, Longform, Muck Rack Daily, Public Announcements, Ritholtz's Reads, TMN Headlines, The Sunday Long Read.
7-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF APPEARANCE RATE OF TOP LINKS IN THE PAST MONTH
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in Deez Links, Digg, Internet Brunch, Links, Longform, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, Public Announcements, Ritholtz's Reads, Shit from the Internet, The Breads, The Morning Missive, The Sunday Long Read.
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Platformer, Public Announcements, Ritholtz's Reads, TMN Headlines, The Cramm, The Skimm, WTF Just Happened Today?, Yesterday's Newsletter.
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in 10 Things, Axios Log-In, Benedict Evans, Hacker News, Links, Morning Brew, Public Announcements, Sidebar, Storythings, The Hustle Daily, Today In Tabs, Warning: Graphic Content.
Blob Opera - Google Arts & Culture
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in 10 Things, Fair Warning, Morning Brew, The Ann Friedman Weekly.
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in Austin Kleon, Digg, Longform, Muck Rack Daily, Newley's Notes, Public Announcements, TMN Headlines, The Highlighter, The Sunday Long Read, Today In Tabs.
Opinion | The Children of Pornhub
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in Benedict Evans.
The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire
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Dec 19 Jan 18
As seen in Elevator, Just Good Shit, Links I Would Gchat You, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, Public Announcements, Ritholtz's Reads, Slugs, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Sunday Long Read.
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
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Dec 19 Jan 18
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THREE RANDOM LINKS THAT APPEARED JUST ONCE THIS MONTH
Sourcing from the following newsletters: 10 Things, 5 Smart Reads, 5-Bullet Friday, API Need To Know, Arts and Leisure Daily, Austin Kleon, Axios Log-In, Axios World, BNet, Benedict Evans, Big Technology, Brain Food, Brain Pickings, Brass Ring Daily, Briefing Day, Bullet Points, Bullets, Creative Mornings, Curiosity Weekly, CuriosityPill, Curious Electric News, Deez Links, Digg, Electric Speed, Elevator, Fair Warning, Finding Beauty, FinkedIn Dispatch, Five Links, Five Things, Fives Best Ideas Of The Day, Garbage Day, Girls' Night In, HRDlist, Hacker News, Here For It, Internet Brunch, Jocelyn K. Glei, Just Good Shit, Laura Olin, Lily Lines, Link Me Up Scotty!, Links, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Lorem Ipsum, Matt's Thoughts In Between, Media Genius, Milk, No Sugar, Modern Adventuress, Monday Musings, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Newley's Notes, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, No Complaints, Noah Kalina, Non-Obvious, Nonostantement, Numlock News, Platformer, Pluralistic, Pop Culture Happy Hour, PopBitch, Public Announcements, Radio Lab, Reasons To Be Cheerful, Recomendo, Reply All, Ritholtz's Reads, Rusty's Electric Dreams, Semi-Rad, Sentiers, Shelter, Shit from the Internet, Sidebar, Slugs, Spark Edition, Storythings, Strands of Genius, Swissmiss, TLDR, TMN Headlines, Techmeme, Tedium, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Breads, The Collected AHP, The Cramm, The Daily Respite, The Good Trade, The Highlighter, The Hustle Daily, The Land Of Random, The Lunch Read, The Media Today, The Monday Medley, The Morning Missive, The Roundup, The Skimm, The Sunday Long Read, The Whippet, Today In Tabs, WTF Just Happened Today?, Warning: Graphic Content, Weekly Filet, Welcome To Hell World, What Happened Last Week?, Why Is This Interesting?, Yesterday's Newsletter.
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HOW IT WORKS
We subscribe to newsletters that fit the following criteria:
- Publish anywhere from daily to bi-weekly
- The primary purpose is to share links
- The majority of links are to other places
- It leans towards general interest, not about niche topic
The newsletter is 100% automated. Every hour, a Google Script runs that parses the links from the emails and saves them to a log dump. Every day, another script runs that checks the last few emails from each sender, and updates a denylist to exclude links that are repeated in the newsletter (e.g., links to socials). Links to the newsletter's domain (i.e. self-promotion) are filtered out.
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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