(🧵) 5 aspects of the digital age: 1. Everyone has an opinion on your life—as they can see part of it. 2. Everyone has a *platform* to express that opinion. 3. Everyone claims *cultural license* to express that opinion. 4. Everyone feels entitled to—virtually—state the opinion to you *directly*.

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It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

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If you have children, if you have anything to do with education, if you are somehow active in politics: stop what you are doing and read this article about the harm AI can do to adolescents. reclaimchildhoodmedia.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

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@anildash.com Thanks for writing “Endgame for the Open Web.” 👏✊ I agree with every word. I recently wrote about what this looks like from the small-site side. My host quietly geo-blocked half the world to cope with LLM scrapers, and I ended up moving to a VPS: matthiasott.com/articles/web...

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