#781: A whole different view of the place
Plus: Surveillance summer, the CIA of sororities, and the triumph of the sobbing-face emoji
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#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially
#779: Trees are on Google Maps now
Plus: The post-influencer internet, the most prolific Wikipedian and the new Luddite movement
#778: A long-held and embarrassing secret
Plus: the aesthetic resistance to AI, an alternative to Etsy and the problem with "egocentric processing"
#777: Happily surrendering our leisure to lines
Plus: the physicality of data, the second coming of froyo, and the rise of "dopamine sites"
#776: The first-ever content creator
Plus: Skill nostalgia, the uncanny editing of the human face, and the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy era's last meager remains
An uncomfortably candid update on this newsletter
Plus: a reader survey, subscriber perks, space lettuce, etc.
#775: Uniquely modern sorrows
Plus: Loneliness clubs, fancy Jell-O shot summer and texting your dog
#774: Outed by autocomplete
Plus: Admin Nights, future houses and the new reigning consumer aesthetic
#773: Regressing to the mean
Plus: slop wildlife, the post-American internet and AI for emotional labor
#772: Gratuitous pandering
Plus: Timeline acquaintances, digital clutter and the grown men bullying kids on Twitter