Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”
#786: Listening to “Abracadabra” on Belarussian prison radio
Plus: Zuckerberg’s fashion, ex-tradwives, and the aesthetics of r/malelivingspace
#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
#782: I saw this and I thought of you
Plus: Group chats, unsent love letters and optimization
#785: Phoning home
Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia
#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially
#777: Happily surrendering our leisure to lines
Plus: the physicality of data, the second coming of froyo, and the rise of "dopamine sites"
#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
#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
The 21 Most Defining Memes of 2023
From viral dances to lil-stinker headshots to songs we couldn't get our of our heads, our favorite Very Online moments of the past years.
#138: The Wild Silence
One interesting aspect of the pandemic internet is all the content that has stopped appearing anywhere.
AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm
This is a continuation of Part 1 from yesterday.
W Social am Abgrund - Digital Independence Day #9
We Made It Weird #57
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