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A chain-letter love note to an expanding multiverse

Jan 9

A glitch in the matrix of online shopping

Or: why I reverse-image-search before buying anything

May 23, 2024

How to stay sane *AND* informed

One counterintuitive trick for getting your news diet in order

Feb 14

The best links of 2024, part 1

Featuring Matt Muir of Web Curios

Dec 7, 2024

Gmail will break your heart

Plz send me the long-forgotten treasures in your inbox

May 30, 2024

#734: Instagram cringe and millennial redemption

Plus: What JD Vance memes tell us about political alienation

Mar 8

On the internet, nobody knows you’re pregnant

Why I -- and many expecting parents -- have done away with social media pregnancy announcements.

Mar 13

#730: Instagram poems and Substack it girls

You can't post through the end of the world

Feb 10

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

Dec 6, 2024

#728: Online lacunas and true randomness

Plus what we lose when no one writes by hand

Jan 25

#724: What I’m reading about the election

Plus our usual assorted nonsense

Nov 9, 2024

#732: Online accents and fast fashion frontiers

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

Feb 22

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