Split between a platform to profile figures from Charli XCX to Francis Ford Coppola, and a social network that refuses to serve the algorithm overlords, this magazine is breaking necks.
Thoughts on Cyberpositionality: The Construction of Digital Communities in Digital Spaces, Damien Patrick Williams
I found Rebecca Monteleone, Martin Perez Comisso, and Elma Hajric’s “Cyberpositionality: Sociotechnical Location in the Digital Age” (2024) to be an extremely timely and important article which can…
Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media
Bluesky COO Rose Wang On Building a Better Social Network
Trust — Utopian conspiracy
A network of utopian conspirators, a sandbox for their creative, technical and critical projects, and a site of experimentation for new ways of learning together.
Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isn’t necessarily due to LinkedIn’s sparkling competence, of course. To the contrary, LinkedIn is the Gerald Ford of social networks: the normal one that was left standing as the Richard Nixons and the Spiro Agnews of social media imploded around them. As with Gerald Ford, with LinkedIn we know that we’re getting something a bit clumsy and boring, but (as with post-Watergate America!), we’re also getting something that isn’t totally crooked — and that’s actually a bit of a relief.
AI, Artifice, And Authenticity
The era of badly-automated homogenized engagement slop is upon us. I desperately want to believe there's a renaissance for authenticity on the other end.
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
Medsky
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Creat…
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the pl…
“No One’s Coming to Save Us. Why Communities Must Build Their Own Internet” -Rudy Fraser, Blacksky
Rethinking Digital Commons in the Age of Viral Hate
Hate has a significant advantage on social networks: its ability to go viral. The case of Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer, urgently calls for a rethink of digital commons.
The World Doesn’t Exist: William Gibson, William Blake, and Navigating an Algorithmic Hall of Mirrors | ODDCRITIC
Scrolling the TL revealed distorted realities, shaped by algorithms and biases.
In a 🔥 post, @jessicahullman.bsky.social follows up on the recent NHB 'High replicability' paper. "It bugs me (though doesn’t not surprise me) to think that whether questionable practices get called out depends on who exactly is in the author list." tinyurl.com/4yr98zvw
The feel-good open science story versus the preregistration (who do you think wins?) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
tinyurl.comSocial Media - Algorithmic Distortions and Polarization
Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think
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Doomscrolling
Infinite scrolling
Taming the endless scroll? Short-form videos, digital routines and neurocognitive outcomes in youth
Trolling democracy: anonymity doesn’t cause conflicts, bad site design does
