At 3 a.m., I Turned to AI for Comfort. That Was My First Mistake
The age of distraction has a cost: we’re forgetting how to be alone with ourselves
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Can Rayne Fisher-Quann Shift from Internet Princess to Bestselling Author?
The publishing industry is hinging its hopes on a twenty-three-year-old with a Substack and a devout following. Can she deliver?
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2024: The Year in Technology
Conversations about social media, artificial intelligence, and the ways our screens are shaping our identities
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Bluesky Promised Writers Freedom. Now It’s Feeling a Lot Like Work
With every new platform comes the expectation to punch in as a professional, curated version of ourselves
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Tech Titans Should Pay to Save Canada’s Newsrooms
It’s time to take seriously the idea of using digital taxes to rebuild journalism
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How Much Porn Are We Watching? A Lot
And we’re watching more of it in public—buses, libraries, classrooms, and offices
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The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick
Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything
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Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink
Government funding is dwindling. TikTok and Instagram are filling the gap
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Does Being Called “Timmy” Make Me Less Manly?
Online trolls think it’s cool to attack my masculinity. But “man up” is the lamest advice ever
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Kamala Harris’s Campaign Is Only Meme Deep. Can It Be Sustained?
The danger in trying to engineer viral moments
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