new internet
Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year Is…
nytimes.comBack in the 2000s, a lot of blogs were about blogs , about blogging. If that sounds exhaustingly meta, well, yes — but it was also SUPER generative. When the thing can describe itself, when it becomes the natural place to discuss and debate itself, I am telling you: some flywheel gets spinning, and powerful things start to happen.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
We’re in the midst of a significant evolution in what it means to be an individual. This experience and confluence of forces is what I call post-individualism — a term intended to capture the ways computers and the web have changed our sense of self and how society is changing in response.
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
river
river.maxbittker.comUsers are leaving X, the most divisive and shouty social media platform, and it’s unlikely that alternatives like Bluesky will replace it. The era when arguing about politics on social media was America’s national pastime may be drawing to a close, with public discussions replaced by small group chats. With the decline of public argument platforms... See more
Noah Smith • The best-case scenario for Trump's second term
Naive Weekly | Kristoffer | Substack
naiveweekly.com“these platforms make it impossible to represent your full multidimensional self... your whole self can never exist in a single space.”