Social Media 💉
I have a complicated relationship to social media. For a while I thought it was just me and a failure of my own attention. But I takes two to tango.
The Firehose and the Feed | Weeknotes #427
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer to me.
2025
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader. Here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
Just Like Stuff
I’ve had a hard rule for almost twenty years: I don’t argue with people about anything on the internet.
BBC: Future of the Social Internet Report
A while ago I contributed to BBC R&D’s Future of the Social Internet Report, which explores the dynamics of current digital social platforms.
Sitting This One Out
This post began as a journal entry—and ended up a prose poem. It’s about choosing not to perform panic online.
Human Gunk and the AI Slopocalypse | 2504
If you find it hard to distinguish between content slop written by AI or content written by a human, don’t worry.
Meme Stash as a Folk Archive
People collect and arrange all sorts of things they find meaningful. Pinterest represents an aspirational self, the meme stash an ironic one.
Email is a Destination | 2502
In primary school, we had a lesson in the new computer lab which involved sending an email to each other at adjacent desks.
Living Alongside Computer People
The idea that we can avoid a future where social networks are populated by AI-generated profiles? That ship has sailed.
You Copied Me
It’s surprising how quickly “You copied me” appears in a child’s vocabulary.
Have Some Ambition
There’s been a wave of people writing about their exodus from Twitter and the supposed joy they’ve found on Bluesky.
The Doc Web
Social media is no longer reliable for reaching an audience. But maybe there’s a weird way forward?
Algorithmic Pressure | 2410
People I hang out with online all at once seem to have begun questioning the necessity of weekly creative production.
React + Re-Consume | 2408
Reaction videos were (and still) are considered ‘low effort’. At worst a parasitic grift. Leveraging the creative work of others for social clout
Internet Escape Velocity | 2402
You know how in the Persona games the main characters get sucked into the television? Internet Escape Velocity is the opposite.
Where Do You Spend Your Time?
I’m seriously wondering about where (and what) I spend my time doing.
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