Against LOLflation
Online language is evolving to leave a new generation of older users behind
Internet
Sunday
Big tech wants us to empathize with robots
They’ve created a serious ethical dilemma for those who wish to defy the woke technocracy
Tuesday
The year’s horrors have left me speechless
I fear that the internet is driving me and everyone around me insane
The promise and peril of Facebook Marketplace
The internet reduces the friction of finding something but increases the friction of attaining it
Wednesday
Inside Biden’s plan to regulate the open internet
It isn’t an altruistic fight for the downtrodden, but a strategic maneuver to annex more control
Wednesday
Doombragging: the rise of sustainable boasting
The old-fashioned humble-brag looks passé next to the doombrag
The rise of the lazy-girl job
Gen Zers are quite right to call time on a lifestyle that glamorizes overtime, burnout and the ceaseless rat race
Taylor Lorenz is optimistic about the internet
Extremely Online is mostly a story about money
Tuesday
America’s undersea lifelines
Undersea cables make the world go round — and leave us vulnerable
Friday
The social media era of news is over
It probably didn’t end soon enough
Sunday
Is trans trending downward?
The market gets saturated — and something new has to come in
Monday
Taylor Lorenz is a crybully
She mines outrage and attention by crusading against the ethically unenlightened
Tuesday
The top five things Paul Krugman has gotten wrong
Out of millions
Monday
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Monday
Blackpill: inside the incel death cult
An online in-joke becomes real-world terrorism
Monday
Meme warfare on the convention stage
Viral images and videos are the choice political weapons of our time because they seem to speak for themselves
Thursday
I survived a 20-minute internet outage during lockdown
What if it never works again? What if our infrastructure is finally collapsing? What if this is it?
Saturday
How to beat Twitter cellar-dwellers at their own game
For whom the bell trolls
Tuesday
Washington’s war on internet free speech
Republicans and Democrats are dueling to see who can write the worst policy
Tuesday
The bizarre, normal death of Bianca Devins
If her killer is exceptional, it is in his pathetic keenness to make this a point of pride
