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The Machine Looks Back
i'm noticing a trend in critiques of social media
Disclaimer: I’m DEEP in pregnancy brain territory and the brain fog is real and oppressive, so please excuse where I clearly lose my train of thought mid-sentence. I think I’m onto somethin...
A Klansman Predicted Online Extremism in 1983. What Came Next Is Worse.
For Tablet’s June print issue, I wrote about the strange afterlife of the “extremism industry” and why it’s still hunting Nazis from the 1990s while the actual threat has mutated into something much more disturbing. In light of recent viole...
Welcome to LambdaMOO!
This piece is not mine. It was written by Eva-Lise Carlstrom, then a student at Grinnell College, and completed on May 15, 1992 — three and a half decades ago. It’s an undergraduate ethnography of LambdaMOO, the text-based virtual world tha...
We Thought the Internet Was For Us. It Turns Out It's For AI.
We thought new media advance social development through transformations. But, as in an old joke, it may be asthma mistaken for orgasm. In reality, the millennia-long chain of media transformations might reflect the technological imperative,...
The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover
A note: the following essay is not mine.
It was written by Lindsy Van Gelder and published in Ms. Magazine in October 1985 — over forty years ago. Van Gelder was a journalist and longtime Ms. contributor who had recently gotten a modem and...
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