Returning to the luxury of thinking

No one has ever become interesting on TikTok

In my own hot-and-cold relationship with social media, the precipitating event for reducing or stopping my scrolling is often “when was the last time I learned something on this platform that made my life better?”. You might be thinking of some hack for folding a fitted sheet, finding discounts, or

What feel-good surveillance has cost us

Everyone loves a feel-good moment. I am as susceptible to a good ‘hopecore’ video as the next person; relishing these reminders that people are normally good to one another as a reprieve from hundreds of posts asserting the opposite. I have also experienced my fair share of feel-good moments that