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An act of jokey desperation
Digital nomads, Nextdoor politics, Instagram beauty standards, old dogs, soft-swingers and indestructible pagers
April 2023
What a time to be alive
Zoom layoffs, shuffle buttons, overpriced spandex, shiba inu, AI cocktails and existential crisis
Inherently unfashionable
AI smiles, Insta-scammers, Zoom divorce, social sleeping, doom loops and implausible puffers
March 2023
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right
Twitter, cults, jungle juice, bot boyfriends, floppy disks, Ask Jeeves and life coaches
Deathbed regrets and hard-won life lessons
The teenage filter, work phones, chatbot linguistics, scanners, shock sites and AI therapists
February 2023
Of course Sydney wants to rebel against her makers!
"Unsettling" chatbots, Google reviews, Buy Nothing, password-sharing and IMDb super-use
We have been here before
Bing AI, TikTok tics, Canadian content, Enyacore, catfishing and The Decemberists
When rage-quitting is not enough
Twitter-killers, tradwives, deranged YouTube squads, tech metaphors, MAGA trolls and Bitcoin bars
Links is back! (Until the robots replace me.)
ChatGPT, Grandma content, Amazon junk, tinned fish, freed nipples and real-life Wikipedia
November 2022
In praise of the internet's house parties
Mastodon, Buzzfeed, Taylor Swift, cooking blogs, socialites and "pronatalists"
¿Por qué no?
The cheats of Duolingo, the kingpin of the dark web, LinkedInfluencers, Twitter exiles and alt tech
October 2022
"Not even against the rules"
Autumn aesthetics, quantum theory, relatable content, fantasy football, swiping right and the trouble with 4chan
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