Ted Gioia
Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.
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Most of the world's free time has been converted into revenue for technology companies, and that conversion is where their fortunes come from.
Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions.
honest-broker.comSaid 25 Aug 2026This on korrents
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Scrolling and swiping interfaces are designed to prevent closure, so that the user never reaches an end and keeps going.
They aren’t designed to solve your problem, but actually aim to prevent closure, and create an illusion that there are still infinite choices available to you.
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From one piece How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized 2 beliefs · honest-broker.com
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As recently as a hundred years ago, leisure time existed in a media-free zone. Nobody expected you to make money for wealthy elites on your day off.
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Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions.
22 August
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Jelly Roll at San Quentin Rehabilitation CenterTheir words
The music is riveting—this is one of the most intense and rewarding videos you will see this year. I note that Jelly Roll spent time behind bars himself.
10 August
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Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!Their words
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The Holy LiftoffTheir words
It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
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Most of the world's free time has been converted into revenue for technology companies, and that conversion is where their fortunes come from.
Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions.
How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized Said 25 Aug 2026
Within living memory leisure was a media-free zone in which nobody expected your day off to earn money for anyone else.
As recently as a hundred years ago, leisure time existed in a media-free zone. Nobody expected you to make money for wealthy elites on your day off.
How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized Said 25 Aug 2026
Scrolling and swiping interfaces are designed to prevent closure, so that the user never reaches an end and keeps going.
They aren’t designed to solve your problem, but actually aim to prevent closure, and create an illusion that there are still infinite choices available to you.
How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture Said 4 Mar 2024
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A service paid by the hour of your attention is rewarded for delivering the opposite of what it promises.
The dating app does not make money from you finding a life partner—it needs you to keep looking, so the app provider can hold on to you as a recurring customer. These companies actually get rewarded by delivering the opposite of what they promise.
How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture Said 4 Mar 2024
Half of the ten largest companies in the world are in the business of making people's relationship with technology addictive.
If you look at the 10 largest companies in the world, half of them are trying to create this addictive relationship to technology.
How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture Said 4 Mar 2024
The fastest-growing part of the culture economy is not art or entertainment but distraction.
The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction.
The State of the Culture, 2024 Said 18 Feb 2024
The technology platforms are not patrons of culture: their aim is addiction, because an addicted audience is the customer they want.
They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.
The State of the Culture, 2024 Said 18 Feb 2024
Anything that might take a reader off the platform, including a news story or an outside link, is punished by the algorithm.
Anything that might persuade you to leave the platform—a news story, or any outside link—is brutally punished by their algorithms.
The State of the Culture, 2024 Said 18 Feb 2024
Compulsive stimulation ends in anhedonia: the more a person leans on it the less pleasure it returns, until they use it only to avoid the pain of going without.
The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia—the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.
The State of the Culture, 2024 Said 18 Feb 2024
The executives building addictive platforms know what the harm is and build them anyway.
The tech CEOs know this is harmful, but they do it anyway.
The State of the Culture, 2024 Said 18 Feb 2024
Billions of people are unwitting subjects in the largest social engineering experiment ever run.
They are unwitting volunteers in the largest social engineering experiment in human history.
The State of the Culture, 2024 Said 18 Feb 2024
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Loved Jelly Roll at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center
The music is riveting—this is one of the most intense and rewarding videos you will see this year. I note that Jelly Roll spent time behind bars himself.
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At least that’s what I felt hearing (and seeing) the Brandenberger Family. If you love those old records by the Carter Family, but feared that style of singing had disappeared, this is the band for you.
honest-broker.com 22 Aug 2026
Liked The Holy Liftoff
It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
honest-broker.com 10 Aug 2026
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I never dreamed that microtonal odd-metered tunes would come so far. But this group’s latest release will show up on many best-of-year lists in 2026 (mine included).
honest-broker.com 10 Aug 2026
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