A couple of days ago, I received one of those private messages that make me smile. A blog reader wrote: "Your post today is spectacular! I really like your writing. Have you ever thought about writing a book?" I felt a genuine warmth in my response, and I responded with thanks. Then a question slipped out, perhaps a bit bold...
There are moments when technology stops seeming neutral and begins to resemble a mirror. This story was born from there: from digital addiction, from the normalization of war, and from that disturbing silence that comes when you realize how fragile the world we call normal is. ETHER Fingers on the keyboard make less noise...
There's a great, reassuring myth that we adults love to tell ourselves before bed—strictly with our smartphones on the nightstand: "Young people today are lost in a screen; we need to save them from themselves." We lull ourselves into this generational superiority, convinced that our birth certificate automatically awards us the title of "village wise men." The answer of…
Running an independent blog in 2026, in the midst of a tap-tap world, seems like a geometric contradiction. Science—or at least the marketers who sell it that way—tells us that the average human attention span has fallen below that of a goldfish. If a TikTok video doesn't show a guy doing something...
Let's get one thing straight: I didn't slam the door of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. I walked toward it slowly, brick by brick, accumulating years of disillusionment, annoyance, and finally, a lucid and definitive disgust. My relationship with social media has always been conflicted: from the naive enthusiasm of the early years—look at all the opportunities, all the connections,…
“Oh it's a tap tap world we live in / making up lives cause we're driven / to be more than just the norm / in our imaginations reborn” — 80 Hundred Miles feat. Moly Cat, Tap Tap World (2024) Scroll. The vice that didn't know its name — until a court told it — “What are you looking at…
I asked Vera how to reach more people on social media. Her answer? I'm a public enemy! Shadowbans, algorithms, and disruptive critical thinking.
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