The peculiar appeal of ‘sad-girl literature’
Prose style matters less than access to toxic love, pain and suffering… and a light smattering of suicide and violent death
Internet
Monday
Wednesday
X and the return of the social-media sandbox
Until a competitor amasses the platform’s kind of clout, the wannabe censors will be stuck hearing opinions for which they once tried to get people banned
Thursday
Why is Generation Z so undersexed?
The answer could lie in the decline of mystique
The delight of reading the New York Times Cooking comments
With all their foibles, this community of commenters has become essential to my kitchen
Sunday
Against LOLflation
Online language is evolving to leave a new generation of older users behind
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
