#764: It's been a year

#762: One weird trick to make new friends

Plus: Dubai influencers, cultural time and the "most uplifting corner" of the internet

#777: Happily surrendering our leisure to lines

Plus: the physicality of data, the second coming of froyo, and the rise of "dopamine sites"

#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

Internet Phone Book – Back in stock!

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.

#785: Phoning home

Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia

#782: I saw this and I thought of you

Plus: Group chats, unsent love letters and optimization

#766: An AI company you can wear without socks

Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America

#783: The end of spoken conversation

Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”

Online travel recommendations are broken

(And where you can still find them).

21 Very Short and Addicting Stories You Can Read Online

It can be extremely hard to find time to read these days. With our lives cluttered with work, school, life, and new amazing episodes of…

#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse

Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era

Jacky's homepage on the DARPA-created, commerically-available Web. - Jacky Alciné

In your Web browser, of course. And not all of me; that'd be weird! You're using Firefox, right? You can catch up by email with 112 other folks, on a social network in the Meta, commonly known as Facebook, Threads, Blacksky in the Atmosphere or X, commonly known as Twitter as I continue to share and work on all things towards history, open digital technology, culture — and everything in between. I write essays of varying length; most recently I wrote "On the Notion of Shutting the Fuck up". I keep notes weekly and (near) daily links. Here's what I use on the regular.

Birdcage liners

My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook.