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I have to admit something. When I wrote a few weeks ago about deleting my Facebook account, I did not mention that I had also created a completely blank burner account. As a person invested in and often researching communication technology, I feel it's important to keep a
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In some ways, I feel like I've gotten my attention back. A few months ago, after researching and writing some pieces about Meta, I decided to come off of my Facebook and Instagram accounts permanently. Combined with my abstinence from TikTok, my use of social media has become
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I've spent the last few weeks writing almost exclusively about technology, and I think it's time to dip back into media and entertainment (and of course its intersections with technology). In the past, I've written pieces about building an online arts scene, my impressions
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It's a new week. We have a new president. The vibes are not great. About a million and one things happened with TikTok over the weekend, so let's talk about them. Here's what happened, somewhat chronologically * In his final hours as president, Joe Biden
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Look, you can do whatever you want. Sincerely. I cannot and will not sit here and judge how anyone else chooses to use their devices or their internet. But, for me? It was time to go. We are experiencing "a moment" This upcoming week has profound implications for
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Since I wrote Tuesday's newsletter, more and more disappointing news has oozed out of Meta. Here are some details being reported about changes to their moderation strategy, their corporate structure, and internal affairs: * Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people Casey Newton, Platformer: "'
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Warning: This post makes brief reference to a physical altercation between a married couple. Time to ramp back up to my typical newsletter cadence. Today's certainly won't be too long, but I still hope to make it worth your while. Let's talk about Meta
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As Charlie XCX told us during the Brat Summer of our lord, everything is romantic. As I am telling you now, everything is tech. Stories that don't appear on the surface to be technology stories always have some small line out to the many ways technology disrupts and
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For me and many of my friends, 2024 has been an absolute doozy. Just an absolute disaster of a year. Without belaboring it, I'll just say that 2025 cannot come fast enough. As the clock ticks down on this mudpit of a year, let's take an
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Over the past week, millions of new users, including some of Twitter's most prolific producers, have moved operations to Bluesky. If you've heard about Bluesky, if you haven't heard about Bluesky, if you are someone who was the 72,868th user on Bluesky (me)