doomscrolling

Tag: doomscrolling

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text-based media

Notes for August 10, 2026

Mark Twain predicts doomscrolling, UK reality TV is bonkers, obsolete 80s treasures, the rings of Earth, T-Rex spleeping position is bad for you, and so is a crash course on synthesizing LSD

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Aug 10
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The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled "Gardens", and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web
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Zsolt's pckt blog
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The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled "Gardens", and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web

We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality. And yet here we are, still scrolling. This essay is an attempt to answer two questions: why is leaving so hard, and what does it look like when it finally becomes possible? Let's take the platforms one at a time, because each one has found its own distinctive way to be terrible. Meta is the empire that learned nothing. In 2018, we learne...

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Jul 19
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