Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially
#783: The end of spoken conversation
Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”
#785: Phoning home
Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia
#786: Listening to “Abracadabra” on Belarussian prison radio
Plus: Zuckerberg’s fashion, ex-tradwives, and the aesthetics of r/malelivingspace
#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
#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
wife swap, supernanny & how we discriminate against kids
Topics — Real Life
ABOUT TOPICS: Since we began Real Life in the summer of 2016, we’ve run many essays across a range of topics, with a particular focus on the personal and cultural implications of living with technology. Our aim is not to track the news cycle so much as the longstanding social issues that inform and transcend it. We wanted to make it easier to read and explore Real Life beyond our chronological archive, so we’ve created these Topics to gather in one place the work we’ve published on some key themes. More Topics will be added to this page over time.
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Putting Social Media Back on the Internet
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Putting Social Media Back on the Internet
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Putting Social Media Back on the Internet
My top Bluesky feature requests for 2024
In 2023 my social media consumption changed dramatically after I DM'd a random mufo on what-was-then-called Twitter for a Bluesky invite. At the time, I was floating between Twitter itself and Mastodon for my primary daily social media experience. On one hand, I loathed Twitter (and
#782: I saw this and I thought of you
Plus: Group chats, unsent love letters and optimization
Why infinite scroll's inventor wants to kill his creation : The Indicator from Planet Money
We practically live on our phones these days. Scrolling and scrolling, endlessly. Entrepreneur Aza Raskin is responsible for creating this infinite scroll. He also testified against Meta, who have been under fire — and in court — charged with making their apps addictive to children. On today’s show: Raskin tells us about the changes he thinks platforms should make to help people take their attention back. Come see Planet Money live on stage! 12 cities. Details and tix here: planetmoneybook.com Related episodes: The Social Media Crisis How algorithms are changing the way we speak For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Cooper Katz McKim. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
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During the mass influx of users to Bluesky during the '24 election, I saw the need to carve out a space for real [femme] adult creators. The biggest related hashtags at the time like #NSFW were mostly art, furries, gay Twitter, and stolen porn. OF girls couldn't get seen.
