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When it comes to things like relationships, the bonds we form are ever-evolving and impossible to fossilize, just as the living internet will always trace back to links that stop functioning. But if the internet is fundamentally not meant for keeping, I’d still like to imagine what more it has to offer us.
The frailty of profit-oriented projects tha
... See moreI started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more
And, like many modern people—modern women, especially—I had catapulted out of my context…The successes [of the writers] gave me hope, of course, yet it was the desperate bits I liked best. I was looking for directions, gathering clues.
William Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
Parimal Satyal • Rediscovering the Small Web
You entered the week comparatively young and spry and now you are a withered and wretched crone, demanding ointment, and things that you could swear happened yesterday were simultaneously three hundred years ago and never.
Alexandra Petri • Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays
The End of Social
You can’t be canceled if you’re seeking the Truth
I’m at an inflection point in life. My public, private and professional selves can’t be in tension like this anymore, so I’m done writing under a pseudonym. Already worked out what I’ll do if an internet mob comes for me: nothing. No apologies, no hedging. Also don’t GAF if some recruiters blacklist
... See moreMy friends are always obliging me with ephemera like this—screenshots of sexts, emails to their mothers—because I’m forever wanting to know what it feels like to be other people. What were we all doing? What the hell was going on here on Earth? Of course none of these artifacts really amounted to anything; it was like trying to grab smoke by its ha
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