>"The influencer and former kickboxer was banned from multiple social media platforms after violating their policies. The influencer's misogynistic remarks _...Read More_

The culture war has turned into an endemic condition of online honor-based conflict.

"In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein famously demonstrated the power of world-altering crises like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to “shock” people into a kind of stupor that prevented them from pushing back against the “godlike” power of _...Read More_

"Throughout the last week, in the wake of the white supremacist mass murder Buffalo, I increasingly asked myself: "What exactly are we doing here?" Because whatever it _...Read More_

>"From Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s Met Gala dress to Grimes reading Marx, we are trapped in a Capitalist Realism feedback loop – but can memes save us?"

>"Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the _...Read More_

"Then there are the internet memes – one I really like is “Texts From Your Existentialist" that uses famous paintings from art history and captions them with funnily dark aphorisms (“Does this existential crisis make me look fat?”)"

Psychological richness, attention economy, and social acceleration in measured in temporal changes in hashtag popularity

"The internet has always been home to the horniest pockets of society. But since the heat of the pandemic and its multiple _...Read More_

“Confessionalism became a popular way to construct one’s identity, and the internet was the place to do it. Whether it was long-form and pedigreed, published in The Washington Post or some other _...Read More_

[@taylore](/user/profile/taylore) As predicted, A great read. Totally agree with you, I think Instagram is dying, though a very slow death. I follow a lot of regular people and a lot of influencers and I’ve noticed that only influencers post. My friends haven’t _...Read More_

>"The site, made by an 18-year-old coder from Germany, has surpassed 200,000 users and offers an antidote to algorithmically-driven timelines"

"“Visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength; […] to define ourselves, name ourselves, and speak for ourselves, instead of being defined a"