Category: 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.
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Reconstitution
I really don’t know what the fuck is going on, nor am I pretending to know. The completeness of crisis is too big to understand.
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Rock Fandom | 2205
What subject I wondered, could potentially be more entertaining than Twitter? Without thinking, I typed the words Rock Polishing into Youtube.
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Lost in MySpace | 2202
Upon hearing the MySpace sever news, my first thought was ‘I’m glad all posts and DMs are gone forever’. My second thought was ‘Oh No’
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Deprogramming
I really need to leave social media alone. This week I gorged myself on the intertweetz like a fresh tin of quality street on xmas morning.
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Substacklash Redux
The Substacklash has continued to smoulder as a slow burn trash fire for the last few months. This week however Substack have fucked it.
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Word Diet
My plan is for the next week to reduce the amount of words I consume via a screen radically.
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In The Archipelago | 2101
Imagine being on a boat, looking out over the waves, waiting for the future to appear over the horizon.
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Showing Up in the Wild
Introducing a new section to the weeknotes this week: Correspondence Culture.
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The Weather On Social Media | 2047
On the internet, Everything happens so much. But you don’t need to stand out in the rain to know it’s raining.
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Substacklash
I don’t really have any thoughts on the Substack backlash beyond urging people to ignore their impulse to disparage tall poppies and instead remember the long tail of people on the platform that are surviving because of others generosity.
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Millions of Amygdalas
There must be millions of amygdalas burnt out around the world. What a week for people addicted to infotainment and social media this must have been?
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Panning The Streams
I’ve spent the week thinking about/observing my behaviour in the feeds more closely
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Choose Your Own Internet
One of the advantages of spending less on social media is deciding where you do want to spend your time on the Internet.
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The Week I Went On A Twitter Enya Binge
I preceded to go on an absolute tear and post about my love of Enya for over an hour.
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No Clock On TIKTOK | 2036
Tik Tok is the most Baudrillardian of Social Networks.
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My Media Ecology | 2027
Art x Advanced Technologies, Growing Up a Punk, Trauma Talks and Interdependence
