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“In actual fact, [BeReal] is trapping us in an endless, 24-hour cycle – one in which every user knows that everyone else is carefully curating their casualness”
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
I think that people come alive when they’re serious about what they love—when they choose to pay careful attention to what feeds and sustains them. I love this one Heather Havrilesky line about how crushes are often just misplaced ambition. Of course crushes are more than that—they’re about nostalgia and magic and futures we’ll never access—but I t... See more
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
On Keeping it Real
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Fourth definition: Perhaps most important in our digital age, we say something is real if it’s authentic. When something is inauthentic, it’s fake. The physical world is full of inauthenticity, from counterfeit money to fake smiles. Inauthenticity runs even more rampant on the internet, where fake news, phony bots and Instagram filters that idealiz... See more
David Chalmers • Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives
New Feelings is a column devoted to the desires, moods, pathologies, and identifications that rarely had names before digital media
Real Life Mag • Entangled Intelligence — Real Life
one of the most powerful things we can experience in life is to reveal our true selves, warts and all, and still be respected, appreciated, and loved—with non-judgmental love.
Catherine Hoke • A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us
I grew up as a pleasure to have in class . A little chatty, sure, but my homework was always done, and I got along well with my schoolmates. I loved the approval. I knew how to be good; I was always smiling, laughing, and ready to lend a hand. In her 2023 book On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to Be Good , Elise Lo... See more
Michelle Albanes-Davis • Good Girl
People are living into identities that aren’t accepted or even recognized by society at large. Their insistence on self-definition creates space for all of us to be more self-determined.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
There’s more than 19,000 of you reading this right now; if 1,010 of you can support Deez Links via a paid subscription, I could literally pay for rent and healthcare for the year. The American dream!
But......if we can get 2,000 subscribers or more.....dude. First of all, I’d uh stop panicking tonight , and then I’d get to work putting Hate Read Sea... See more
But......if we can get 2,000 subscribers or more.....dude. First of all, I’d uh stop panicking tonight , and then I’d get to work putting Hate Read Sea... See more