Sitemap - 2024 - Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends
The best links of 2024, part 3
"The paradox of staying online"
The best links of 2024, part 2
Cozy content ate the YouTube Yule log video
The best links of 2024, part 1
The rise of the gift-guide industrial complex
The worst Christmas gift I ever gave
#726: Cozy tech and cozy grievances
Fighting the cabal on your kids' behalf
#725: Spotify slop, BookTok bros and the influencers coming out for Trump
#724: What I’m reading about the election
#723: Social media wars and Redbox ruins
#722: Everyday photos and streaming bandits
#721: Early podcasts and conspiracy grifters
"We’re not going to eradicate people believing in dumb stuff."
#720: Post-truth nihilism and media graves
Tech has never looked more macho
#719: Anti-woke tech bros and Midwestern moms
#718: Punk libraries and American dreams
A dispatch from the future of online news
"TikTok is the platform that has almost killed me"
#717: 'Garlicky' recipes and 9/11 memes
Celebrity Number Six and the unreal power of crowdsourced investigations
#716: Fake computer jobs and ripped CEOs
The Links x Hivemind Swarmed reading guide to Gamergate
Playbook, flashpoint, permanent pox
#715: Snark forums and nerd daddies
How the darkest corners of the internet took over U.S. politics
#714: Beauty discourse and chatbot marriages
#713: Get-rich-quick schemes and tradwife twists
#712: Youthful numpties and sympathetic crackpots
I went to a Substack happy hour and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
The Links x Sunday Long Read guide to online scams
#710: Viral exorcists and taxidermied bats
The rise of the online news hustlers
#709: Shadow stand-ins and survey speedrunners
"Wikipedia says no individual has a monopoly on truth"
#708: Sepia brides and folk heuristics
#707: Rodent boyfriends and right-wing fantasies
#706: Spreadsheets, sigma males and soft-edged juggernauts
The Links guide to online dating
#705: Internet byways and useful fictions
"You’re taken a bit more seriously the less online you are"
#704: Corporate cringe and ex-texts
#703: Link rot, glue pizza and cool girl shit
A glitch in the matrix of online shopping
The Links x Techno Sapiens guide to teens & screens
#702: Fake friends, cloned voices and reckless scams
Why does everything online look the same?
#701: Millennial core and nerd-on-nerd beef
Announcing the long-awaited Links relaunch
#700: Gmail diaries and typewriter buffs
#699: Online astrology and accidental poets
'AI beauty pageants' are not the future we wanted
#698: Synthetic memories and industry plants
#697: PostSecrets, soft lives and tragedeighs
The Links guide to (in)famous internet essays
Links #696: viral essays and low-stakes online drama
Performative hydration has gone too far
Links #695: Digital twins and anxiety Googles
Actually, the internet's always been this bad
Links #694: Kategate, sharenting, and two visions for YouTube's future
AI therapists, aging selfies and our shifty, synthetic future
Tradwife obsessions, online archnemeses and a requiem for TinyLetter
Toxic friends, Temu victims and the outskirts of reality
Goodreads, bleak spam and bad dating apps
Self-aware villains, tech secessionists and a theory for why everything's getting worse
Taylor Swift, AI cults and the pain of the personal brand
Modern heists, Wikipedia porn and bygone tickets
Group chats, AI girlfriends and algorithmic culture
Phone addiction, Stanley stans and the out-of-office message I struggled to send