Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Joanne McNeil provides context to the evolution of communities online connection to the platforms that enable it.
Macmillan • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user.
Macmillan • Attention Required! | Cloudflare

Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
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“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
It makes sense that norms are shifting in this direction as Gen Z’s influence spreads. Raised on social media, with access to once illicit bad-taste touchstones like Rocky Horror just a click away, they’ve largely replaced IRL subcultures with a constellation of aesthetics—cottagecore, dark academia, Y2K—to be performed, then discarded or demoted t... See more
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
“Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism,”