Archive - Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

#732: Online accents and fast fashion frontiers

Plus: The rise of “lore” and “oneshotted”

23 hrs ago

The endless internal struggle of phone photography

A visual essay inspired by the Louvre, of all damn things

Feb 20

#731: Space rocks and soul machines

Plus a better theory of "brain rotting"

Feb 17

How to stay sane *AND* informed

One counterintuitive trick for getting your news diet in order

Feb 14

#730: Instagram poems and Substack it girls

You can't post through the end of the world

Feb 10

All hail the Hipster Grifter

A rare open thread!

Feb 6

#729: Chosen families and sugar highs

Plus: An unscheduled phone call DOES suggest someone has died.

Feb 2

January 2025

Ground control to Myspace Tom

The enduring appeal of the tech bro that got away

Jan 30

#728: Online lacunas and true randomness

Plus what we lose when no one writes by hand

Jan 25

The internet four years from now

I'm ... not abundantly optimistic, somehow

Jan 23

#727: Tech bro plutocrats and TikTok's resurrection

"It’s grief for a version of the internet that might have been, but isn't"

Jan 21

The 10,000 faces of TikTok

How one little app became the vector for all our social preoccupations

Jan 18

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