Matt King
@_mattking
Write about culture, tech, waste, wealth, skyscrapers | @TheAtlantic, @newrepublic, @thebafflermag | Best American Essays Notable ‘22, '23
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🚨 The global "early warning system" for cybersecurity is breaking down—creating a growing gap between security "haves" and "have-nots." Most people have no idea their digital lives are becoming more vulnerable. My latest investigation for @techreview: technologyreview.com/2025/07/11/111…
"I think of the strata of the city and how its new skyscrapers are built on the bones of the old docks." Jessica Traynor for @thedialmag: thedial.world/articles/news/…
"The secondary market mitigates the wastefulness, but also it allows for more wastefulness, because what we keep doing is just figuring out ways to get rid of more and more of this... like adding lanes on the highway. It will relieve traffic, but it also invites more traffic.”
Spoiler: most of it is cheap, polyester clothing. A mountain of trash. nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…
one of the more underratedly depressing things about capitalism is how many smart peoples brains it completely wastes. like people who could be curing cancer are instead spending their lives tweaking algorithms to make instagram serve me ads for a mattress 3 weeks after i buy one
Though the current political showdown is nearing an end, new research shows that government shutdowns leave polluting legacies. bit.ly/49NY6Nn
For those of us from "the middle" the Wisconsin Dells has long held a favored place in our summer vacation hearts, but it comes with a cost, @_mattking delves into the water devouring behemoth of the Dells #MetropolitanConsumption: themetropole.blog/2025/11/11/how…
In 2014, after 14 years away, D’Angelo returned with Black Messiah — a defiant, soul-stirring masterpiece that fuses protest, passion, and purpose into one of the most powerful R&B statements of the century. cons.lv/UY1v4A
"If just 1% of Starlink satellites [assuming the full 30k constellation] die, that's still 300 satellites," McDowell explained. "Three hundred big satellites could tip low Earth orbit into Kessler." Kessler being the chain reaction of colliding debris that makes space unusable.
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere dlvr.it/TNWMPX
“It’s on every postcard. And it’s empty.” Some iconic U.S. office buildings are on life support. on.wsj.com/4mVXTL4
No one asked, but we delivered (and had wayyy too much fun finding them): cityandstateny.com/personality/20…
The emergence of “slop” was foretold as soon as we started consuming content via “the feed”
if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. i promise.
I can’t wait to try the new chemicals evil food companies are coming up with to beat ozempic
an excerpt from FREE GIFTS in @nplusonemag on social cost as the underbelly of the free gift, and the peculiarity of pollution as "matter out of place" in a system where matter is ordered by price: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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