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?
Internet
Thursday
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
Saturday
Deepfakes could be good news
Is it a bad thing if we learn to be wary of internet media?
Sunday
How digital media killed itself
Media companies favor competing with one another over finding what they’re best at. Their employees have paid the price
Monday
The agonizing death of Hillary Clinton’s ‘Internet Freedom’ agenda
The openness of the American internet is what makes it so dangerous
Saturday
The vlogging fantasy that bewitches children
My friend’s ten-year-old daughter has a new hobby. Like many of her school pals, she hopes to become a video blogger — a ‘vlogger’. She has started to record clips of herself for others to watch, share and ‘like’. She showed me a few, then gave me a list of famous vloggers to watch: JoJo … Read more
