Researchers share what Americans have to say about social disconnection and potential solutions| Harvard Graduate School of Education
We know the game, and we're gonna play it| cgbrooke.substack.com
Champagne for my real friends; real pain for my sham friends (amirite?)| The Future, Now and Then
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People| cgbrooke.substack.com
As Meta AI expands to its own app to take on ChatGPT, CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that AI friends could help people feel less alone and 'add value to their lives.'| PCMAG
When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health.| 404 Media
When Google killed blogs| cgbrooke.substack.com
The steady decay of search| cgbrooke.substack.com
The bumpy onramp to platform culture| cgbrooke.substack.com
The unbearable unevenness of online culture| cgbrooke.substack.com
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13| theconvivialsociety.substack.com
(or for them to win it, which is kind of the point)| cgbrooke.substack.com
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.| 404 Media
Torment Nexus is a trope of creating a product that was originally described in fiction as something that for the benefit of humanity should never be creat| Know Your Meme