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The Psychology of the Terminally Online It is not enough to change the world. That is all we have ever done. That happens even without us. We also have to interpret this change. And precisely in order to change it. So that the world will not go on changing without us. And so that it is not changed in the end into a world without us. – Günther Anders, The Obsolescence of Man, Volume II There are a few very inconvenient truths about the internet, digital media, and technological “progress” that Western societies have largely failed to account for. They are as follows: the technology and...

The Prime Minister’s former adviser was the talk of Twitter, with unexpected references to Independence Day and internet memes.

The Prime Minister’s former adviser was the talk of Twitter, with unexpected references to Independence Day and internet memes.

Rolling Stone The Instagram Accounts Helping Gen Z Navigate Existential Dread How a new generation of creators is pairing Y2K imagery and Millennial affirmations to create a genre of memes that are equal parts twisted and uplifting By Images used in photo illustration by Adobe Stock and @afffirmations/Instagram In the mid-2010s, about 100 years ago in internet years, one of the cornerstones of editorial strategy on the internet was to publish “identity shares,” a term used to describe pieces that were designed to appeal to a specific reader’s identity, such as “22 Rea...

Rolling Stone Menu ‘Profile’: A Journalist, a Terrorist and a Tale Told Completely Online An undercover reporter tries to bait an ISIS recruiter and gets in over her head in this gimmicky it’s-all-happening-on-your-computer-screen thriller By BAZELEVS/Focus Features A computer screen chimes to life. Windows proliferate. Notifications ping. Video-call boxes pop up, tabs multiply, messenger apps ticker endlessly, a stream of bite-size demands for attention. And in the middle of it all, an increasingly frantic, Extremely Online female freelance journalist with money worri...