culture

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How Powerful Narratives Shape Our Reality Using Polarizing Triggers. Should You Fight Back?

Content was once king. Now distribution and audience rule. People with the biggest audience are now incentivized to distribute their narrative to anyone willing to buy it.

The Narrative Merchant

Feb 7, 2026

We Crave Open Culture

Essay about the importance of free participation in culture.

Casual Essays

Jan 26, 2026

Aftermath

Video games, the internet and what comes after

Human News

Dec 21, 2025

The Flytrap

Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

Human News

Dec 21, 2025

Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of "Content" Monetization

What it means that we stopped caring so much about what we create and started caring only about whether we can sell it.

Aaron Ross Powell’s Blog

Oct 12, 2025

I like the concept of the fediverse, but not its culture

To be slightly hyperbolic, emphasis on cult.

Kirkman's Korner

Feb 28, 2025

Fediverse Report #103

This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.

Connected Places

connectedplaces.online

Feb 11, 2025

Arbitrary Calendar Marker Commentary

Another year of Tedium is behind us, and gotta say—it’s looking like another thousand years of it. Here’s the tedium you should expect in 2022.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

tedium.co/

Dec 31, 2021

Thanks, Craig

Hitting its 25th anniversary this month, Craigslist remains a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

tedium.co/

Feb 22, 2020