the ~internet~
we’re all rotting and i need a breath of fresh air
the ~internet~
The action items to take from this essay would therefore be threefold:
- Go outside and touch some grass . Continue to do so until the urge to open Twitter disappears.
- Double and triple down on your individuality: Know yourself enough to know what is special. Improve that for years and years. Ignore everything else. Over time this will result in a
every.to • The Addiction Economy
shirley hurt on TikTok
vm.tiktok.com
I miss intentional objects with singular purposes
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
But like, the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world. TikTok is especially good at that. But I do think the internet used to be a lot weirder. Certainly more specific. It used to be a place you’d go for a specific interest. Now it is... See more
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
the internet actually did use to be a place - it was limited to the family desktop, and we could walk away from it and leave it behind — how freeing
(If you do not have a subscription or do not have the means to get one, type archive.is/newest/ right before the URL of the article. Again, I am not encouraging this! Just putting it out there that internet archives exist ).
Elle • longform articles & essays 101
internet archives oop