Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Revenge of the lurkers

Werewolf erotica, algorithmic anxiety, sign language, subtitles, PrisonTok, surreal AI foods and the Instagram feed drama

Jul 30, 2022
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More than 260,000 people have signed a week-old Change.org petition aimed at Instagram, the one-time photo-sharing app now mimicking TikTok as closely as copyright law allows it. Personally, I used to like Instagram for stalking the weddings of distant acquaintances and stockpiling local brunch suggestions. Now every fif…

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