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04/06/2021

📚 The Web Librarian

: One of the web’s earliest creators can teach us what we need to know about building a better future.
#30
04/05/2021

🔮 Miss Cleo and Me

: A fundraising scandal involving the former president’s aggressive approach to recurring donations reminds me a lot of something that a famous TV psychic did to my credit card 20 years ago.
#29
04/01/2021

🎤 My Words, Your Voice

: What an open letter that emerged from the music industry says about the art of creativity in mainstream culture.
#28
03/30/2021

💿 The Lone Coder

: A letter of appreciation to the guy who spent years developing one of the few modern web browsers for vintage Macs.
#27
03/29/2021

😈 Chaos For Good

: Why Lil Nas X, in all his Satan-sneaker glory, represents a positive form of chaos in modern internet culture.
#26
03/25/2021

🔐 Lock Up Your Phone

: Why a marketing scheme by an obvious search-bait website actually has me sort of impressed by the brilliance of its growth hackery.
#25
03/22/2021

🤬 I Hate Facebook Groups

: Explaining why Facebook Groups are built so terribly that even The New York Times couldn’t wait to get rid of their incredibly popular group.
#23
03/18/2021

😕 A Culture of Overstimulation

: With basically every culture option under the sun served on a platter, it can be tough to find novelty in any of it anymore. Perhaps a change in perception is the solution to that.
#22
03/16/2021

📺 Background Competition

: I cannot write in the same room where a television is airing, because it destroys my concentration, and I have no clue why. I’m writing this for my own understanding.
#21
03/15/2021

🔐 Sequestered In Memphis

: Discussing one of the most entertaining Twitter bugs in quite some time. Sometimes it doesn’t need to make sense for it to be hilarious.
#20
03/11/2021

🤑 Values Were Lost

: Can you imagine the same internet that was once sold as a noncommercial utopia produced something as crassly commercial as the non-fungible token? Neither can I.
#19
03/09/2021

🌊 Low Tides

: Why did Tidal, a service that tried to do right by both users and artists, become a third-tier music service? Maybe mass audiences don’t really care about quality.
#18
03/08/2021

🪥 Lessons From a Cleaning

: For no particular reason, I decided to spend a couple hours of my day cleaning my keyboard, inside and out. I actually found the process quite enlightening.
#17
03/02/2021

⌨️ Be A Digital Omnivore

: It’s easy to stick with one phone or one interface, but by trying out other operating systems, browsers, or even types of smartphones, you get a better understanding of your exact needs.
#15
03/01/2021

🎶 Big Red Annoyance

: How a recent Tedium piece added an incredibly awful annoyance to my life: The Big Red jingle. Please, something else fill my head.
#14
02/25/2021

💾 Comeback Story

: Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the lamented mobile operating system webOS expands into new markets in its modern-day home—on television sets the world over.
#13
02/23/2021

🐽 Resource Hog No More?

: Amid the latest flare-up of the Chrome RAM consumption debate, let’s wonder aloud if ARM processors could end this debate once and for all. (I think they can.)
#12
02/22/2021

🖼 Framing Is Everything

: Thoughts on storytelling and historical framing from a pair of recent docuseries, one significantly better at its mission than the other.
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