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Earlier this week, an innocuous-seeming TikTok went viral in my corner of Twitter. Following the day-in-a-life template that’s become so popular…
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Eye-catching headline, huh? Increasingly, this seems to be a blog about the intersection of eating disorders and the internet. Whatever—I’ll lea…
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The future of the culture wars.
Happy New Year, friends. I never ended up doing a round-up of 2021, but I guess they’re hardly mandatory. My 2021 in a nutshell? I published so …
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Sterilization's PR campaign.
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Dec 31, 2021
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Habbo Hotel, detransition, Tumblr as the mall.
A few thoughts for your Monday afternoon. I had a very interesting conversation with a young man who used to do military role plays on Habbo Hot…
Dec 27, 2021
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Grief and projection.
"I had not realized that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal…
Dec 23, 2021
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The Press vs. Social Media
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Dec 21, 2021
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🔒 Raking Muck in the Metaverse
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Dec 16, 2021
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🔒 Tonight's Zoom link and a few thoughts...
Good morning everyone! Feeling a little out of it today, so I don’t have too much on the docket. Tonight, I’ll be hosting a conversation about A…
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