>"Turns out the Jones Road 's virality might not have been entirely organic."

>"Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, are disabling the use of certain filters in Texas and Illinois due to state facial recognition laws."

"On social media there is a context collapse between the living and the dead"

"The word "Orwellian" gets tossed around, but the fact that vast online communities have resorted to speaking in code like "unalive" instead of "dead" to _...Read More_

"Social media companies have failed to legitimate their public power because they have responded to such public problems like engineers.”

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How Tech Reform Diminishes Us _...Read More_

Evelyn

An extremely good piece from the always-on-the-money here. (I felt seen, as someone who in the past has committed the unparalleled crime of breaking up with someone, for truly, I am a sociopath who recognises no moral order).

“NFTs might burn out, the crypto-collectible equivalent of Beanie Babies. But the more likely scenario is weirder and scarier: a securities market for digital data.”

"TikTok absolutely dominates style trends and discussion around fashion. What does that mean for the way we dress?"

Trend Cemetery: Long Live Mugler By Taylore Scarabelli January 27, 2022 _...Read More_

>"How platforms mess with our tastes."

"A new bi-weekly column that tries to make sense of meaningless micro-trends, luxury fashion, and street style in the age of social media."

A piece about online pseudonymity and why people are increasingly embracing alts. It's about the early pseudonymous internet, reasons things changed with the rise of social media, and how tech might be pushing us towards a nameless web!