Today on NoAlgo
Criticism and reporting on screens, feeds, money, power, nightlife and the body. High-brow and low-brow get the same scrutiny here. New reporting most days.
Body
Location sharing is easy to begin and socially expensive to end. Here is what Apple Find My, Google Maps, and Life360 reveal when you withdraw.
Tallulah Grange · September 7, 2026 · 8 min
Feeds
A green Open to Work ring once addressed your network. In LinkedIn’s suggested feed, it becomes packaging for a career crisis that can travel among strangers.
Reuben Adeyemi · 7 min read
Scene
A back-wall-to-speaker-edge wear test found the useful tradeoff: foam buys more quiet, while filtered and custom-molded plugs preserve the mix only when their seal holds.
Frankie Doyle · 8 min read
Feeds
A glossy clip promised a tall strawberry layer cake from one thin bowl of batter. Reconstructing the recipe exposed missing leavener, missing fat and an impossible amount of cake.
Priya Nandakumar · 8 min read
Money
Coachella, EDC and Bonnaroo sell installment plans before every artist is known. The promoter gets committed cash flow. The buyer keeps the cancellation and resale risk.
Theo Marchetti · 7 min read
Film and television, taken seriously.
Close reads of what is actually on screen, plus the money, distribution and franchise logic that decided it would exist at all.
The machinery behind what you see.
Internet culture and platform mechanics: micro-drama apps, viral storylines, recommendation systems, AI slop and the people caught inside all of it.
Who gets paid, and who pays.
The economies underneath the content: gig and creator labor, grift, resale, ownership and the business model hiding behind a vibe.
Institutions and the people they act on.
Politics, courts, surveillance, moderation and tech companies behaving like governments, reported on organisations that would prefer no reporting.
Nightlife, subculture, the room itself.
Clubs, music, scenes and the economics of staying open, written from inside rather than from the guest list.
Drugs, sex, identity, survival.
Harm reduction over hand-wringing: what people actually do with their bodies and the systems that make it harder.
Scene
Copied flyers and lookalike promoter accounts turn the post-club scramble into a cash grab. The defense is tracing the address, not demanding that underground parties behave like corporations.
Frankie Doyle · 8 min read
Feeds
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X do not show a neutral record of replies. Their defaults rank, fold and filter conflict until the first screen can look more settled than the thread is.
Reuben Adeyemi · 8 min read
Money
Appointment platforms sell convenience, but their payment rules reveal the real bargain: workers get limited protection only after a client cancels.
Jonah Reyes · 8 min read
Money
Amazon’s onsite earnings dashboard records commissions before every return has played out. The sale can disappear later, and the creator absorbs the correction.
Jonah Reyes · 7 min read
Money
Lifestyle clips lead traders into recurring memberships built around alerts, access and belonging. The reliable trade is the subscription charge.
Ada Lindqvist · 8 min read
Money
Platforms such as Circle and Kajabi bind payment to archives, status and continuity. The product is access, but the renewal lever is the cost of leaving.
Ada Lindqvist · 7 min read
Scene
A live set assembled from vinyl, artist files and streaming catalogs shows that platform absence is rarely random. Community radio survives by keeping other routes open.
Frankie Doyle · 8 min read
Body
Hims, Keeps, and Ro make recurring treatment easy to begin. Leaving means separating the next shipment, the prescription, and access to a clinician.
Tallulah Grange · 8 min read
One update a day
One story each morning — no hype, no filler, no algorithm deciding for you.
Scene
Tracked links and presale quotas turn a half-empty room from the promoter’s problem into the artist’s failure, while the hours spent filling it remain unpaid.
Omar Diallo · 8 min read
Feeds
A side-by-side look at a ReelShort ad and its opening episode shows how micro-drama platforms reorder plots, borrow later footage and manufacture a better cliffhanger.
Reuben Adeyemi · 7 min read
Scene
Foam blocked the most, custom musician plugs fit best, and universal filtered plugs were easiest to leave alone. In a club, protected minutes matter more than theoretical performance.
Bex Nakamura · 8 min read
Screen
Watching “Review” with and without Hulu ads reveals the deeper damage: the countdown turns suspense into advance notice of a platform transaction.
Marisol Vance · 8 min read
Screen
Henry Cavill’s return lasted one mid-credits scene. Black Adam shows how studios borrow excitement from sequels they have not approved, then leave audiences holding the abandoned setup.
Nina Brandt · 7 min read
Money
Money-back guarantees lower the risk of buying a creator course. The terms often restore that risk through deadlines, required assignments and immediate loss of community access.
Jonah Reyes · 8 min read
Marisol Vance
Screen — Chief Film Critic
Reads films like contracts: who paid, who benefits, what the frame is hiding.
Dev Okafor
Screen — TV & Streaming
Watches what the algorithm serves and then asks who ordered it.
Nina Brandt
Screen — Blockbuster Economics
Follows the money from the tentpole all the way back to the tax credit.
Cass Ito
Feeds — Platform Culture
Lives in the timeline so the rest of us can log off with a diagnosis.
Reuben Adeyemi
Feeds — AI & Synthetic Media
Covers machine-made culture without either the hype or the panic.
Priya Nandakumar
Feeds — Fandom & Discourse
Takes fandom seriously, which is why she is so hard on it.
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