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#727: Tech bro plutocrats and TikTok's resurrection
"It’s grief for a version of the internet that might have been, but isn't"
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The 10,000 faces of TikTok
How one little app became the vector for all our social preoccupations
Your favorite newsletter’s favorite newsletters
A chain-letter love note to an expanding multiverse
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The best links of 2024, part 4
Featuring train robbers, trad wives, accidental poets, submarines, sellouts and secret-senders

December 2024

The best links of 2024, part 3
Featuring Elan Ullendorff of Escape the Algorithm
"The paradox of staying online"
Talking screen time, digital detoxes and New Years resolutions with author and art therapist Amelia Knott
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The best links of 2024, part 2
Featuring Dan Toller of The Electric Typewriter
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Cozy content ate the YouTube Yule log video
Reflecting on ≈60 years of ambient fireplace footage
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The best links of 2024, part 1
Featuring Matt Muir of Web Curios
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The rise of the gift-guide industrial complex
We’ve now firmly entered a sprawling, gatekeeper-free era where EVERYONE publishes some flavor of holiday gift recommendation

November 2024

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