the ~internet~
we’re all rotting and i need a breath of fresh air
the ~internet~
Every Time You Post to Instagram, You’re Turning on a Light Bulb Forever
Arthur Holland Micheltheatlantic.comFound on Cosmos
cosmos.so
The one about the phones
open.substack.com
I miss intentional objects with singular purposes
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
Hello this is your infinite scroll checkpoint to remind you that the inventor of the infinite scroll deeply regrets its creation and now pours his efforts into an organization he co-founded called the Center for Humane Technology to try to heal some of the damage he inadvertently caused.
Noelle Sundaysubstack.comI was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like, I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the
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