Category: Social Media 💉
I have a complicated relationship to social media. For a while I thought it was just me and a failure of my own attention. But I takes two to tango.
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The Firehose and the Feed
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer to me.
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2025
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader. Here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
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Just Like Stuff
I’ve had a hard rule for almost twenty years: I don’t argue with people about anything on the internet.
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BBC: Future of the Social Internet Report
A while ago I contributed to BBC R&D’s Future of the Social Internet Report, which explores the dynamics of current digital social platforms.
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Sitting This One Out
This post began as a journal entry—and ended up a prose poem. It’s about choosing not to perform panic online.
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Human Gunk and the AI Slopocalypse | 2504
If you find it hard to distinguish between content slop written by AI or content written by a human, don’t worry.
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Meme Stash as a Folk Archive
People collect and arrange all sorts of things they find meaningful. Pinterest represents an aspirational self, the meme stash an ironic one.
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Email is a Destination | 2502
In primary school, we had a lesson in the new computer lab which involved sending an email to each other at adjacent desks.
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You Copied Me
It’s surprising how quickly “You copied me” appears in a child’s vocabulary.
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Have Some Ambition
There’s been a wave of people writing about their exodus from Twitter and the supposed joy they’ve found on Bluesky.
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Algorithmic Pressure | 2410
People I hang out with online all at once seem to have begun questioning the necessity of weekly creative production.
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React + Re-Consume | 2408
Reaction videos were (and still) are considered ‘low effort’. At worst a parasitic grift. Leveraging the creative work of others for social clout
