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More than any other entity, Facebook has solidified the idea that selfhood exists in the shape of a well-performing public avatar.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Human Reform Politics
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In the absence of time to physically and politically engage with our community the way many of us want to, the internet provides a cheap substitute: it gives us brief moments of pleasure and connection, tied up in the opportunity to constantly listen and speak. Under these circumstances, opinion stops being a first step toward something and starts
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
insisting that it was anything but: it was a tech start-up, a social network, a “community company,” an organization bent on reshaping society.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
homo speculans: “a politically disoriented, speculative subject who accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty.”
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
Freddie deBoer | Substack
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