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Op-ed: Instead of getting rid of intermediaries, the internet created entirely new ones (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/10/2022 - 11:29Kaitlyn Tiffany | The Ugly, Embarrassing Spectacle of ‘Milling’ Around Online (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 11:09I Made the World’s Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 11/21/2021 - 13:37A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous? (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 09/01/2021 - 11:50You Really Need to Quit Twitter (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 12:53The Internet Is Rotting
The internet's absence of central control, or even easy central monitoring created gaps of responsibility for maintaining valuable content that others rely on. Links work seamlessly until they don’t.
You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet | How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing? (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 03/25/2021 - 11:16The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
With the wholesale transfer of so much entertainment, social interaction, education, commerce, and politics from the real world to the virtual world—a process recently accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic—many Americans have come to live in a nightmarish inversion of the Tocquevillian dream, a new sort of wilderness.