My father went into the kitchen for a cookie, then disappeared into his home office for a phone call. He was arranging a surprise for my mother – hired waitstaff for Christmas Eve dinner, one of the biggest our family would have hosted. Then he died. It took 15 seconds. We found him within minutes.
For years, I’ve had a fantasy of destroying my own life by following every piece of extreme self-improvement advice the internet offers. Not the wholesome stuff. I mean the industrial-strength protocols: starvation diets, rhinoplasty, Invisalign followed by double-jaw surgery, chemical peels that promise an entirely new layer of skin. Whatever surfaces in the algorithmic swamp.
She didn’t invent the game she’s playing
Audio-driven content is rendering reading and writing obsolete
With both the djinn and AI, we encounter answers that sound true, feel true, but lead us miles off the path
Residents and observers have basic questions that remain unanswered
Like fairyland and the astral plane, the online world is navigable only if you learn its rules
Before the internet, killing manifestos would have stayed in evidence lockers. Now they circulate endlessly online
These shooters are radicalized, but in no particular direction. Their identities fragment. There is a deep fear of being forgotten
It’s easy for a teenager — precocious, angst-ridden, maybe lonely — to slip from observer to desensitized participant
The friends that greeted me on Friend.com weren’t insightful or socially adept
The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO weaves a complicated digital footprint
How pretending to be homely online became lucrative
The problems between the sexes run much deeper than just being ‘sick of the apps’
When biological women pretend to be trans for clout
How the Wagner group chief vlogged his way through the second Russian civil war
Everyone is piling on this oddball for his bizarre posts
Lacking a decent angle, the director uses herself as filler
The market gets saturated — and something new has to come in
The Rick and Morty co-creator stands accused of domestic violence, among other things
