
The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet
A cryptic utterance from a supposed spambot never lost its relevance.
A cryptic utterance from a supposed spambot never lost its relevance.
The crash should have been a humbling moment for the industry. Instead, companies are doubling down.
Stores are stocked with copycat designs. It’s a nightmare.
Machine sentience is overrated.
Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.
The next generation of AI will put the pathetic fallacy on steroids.
If 15-minute-delivery apps sound too good to be true, that’s because they are.
From bobby-soxers to Beatlemania to Bieber Fever—we all know what a screaming fangirl looks like. But do we really know why she’s screaming?
The online-speech debate pretends that we must choose between absolute freedom and centralized control. Let’s try something else.
We used to come together on social media. Now we come apart.
It could have been me. I’m glad it wasn’t me.
Notes on the paranoid style in online fandom
Roughly a tenth of global carbon emissions comes from the steel industry. Doing something about that is easier said than done.
Online, groups of women have started using the rhetoric of the incel movement. But to what end?
The internet has become strangely nostalgic for life in the Middle Ages.
I’m not selling NFTs.
Every slushie is different. Every slushie is the same.
Social-media companies deny quietly suppressing content, but many users still believe it happens. The result is a lack of trust in the internet.
Could anything that happens with this laptop bring us closure?
For a hint at how Twitter will fare under its new owner, consider how he operates his other enterprises.
Even if Twitter’s new owner changes nothing about the site, it will still feel different.