One interesting aspect of the pandemic internet is all the content that has stopped appearing anywhere.
The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus
Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?
The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
14 Theses on Online Political Violence
The old world of content safety practices is dead, and the new one is struggling to be born.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #66
The many interesting things I read in August 2026
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63
The many interesting things I read in May 2026
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65
The many interesting things I read in July 2026
#769: Nothing you see online is true
Clipping as emergent online literacy, the women self-injecting bootleg Botox and the woes of Facebook nanny groups
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60
The many interesting things I read in February 2026
The Next Great (Digital) Extinction
How today's internet is rapidly and indifferently killing off many systems while allowing new types of organizations to emerge.
Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down
The six-year-old digital publication has seen the social and web search traffic on which it depends evaporate.
