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In this week’s edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about why Australia’s ban on teen use of social media is a mistake torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/australia…
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In this week’s edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I wrote about why Australia’s ban on teen use of social media is a mistake torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/australia…
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New in my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter: How bicycles are changing what it’s like to be a girl in India, and the weight-loss drug Ozempic was derived from the venom of the Gila monster lizard newsletter.mathewingram.com/bicycles-…
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Today in my newsletter “When The Going Gets Weird”: How the Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 set off a Thanksgiving panic, and why there’s an invisible string stretching around Manhattan newsletter.mathewingram.com/how-the-g…
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Description for a piece of luggage on Amazon says that “after multiple ratios, it reaches the golden ratio, realizing the coexistence of firmness and toughness.” Can’t beat that
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If you’re interested in whether Bluesky is truly a decentralized social network, I looked under the hood a bit in the latest edition of The Torment Nexus and the short answer is it is and it isn’t: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
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I’ve been going through some old pieces of mine and this one was particularly memorable. It got me invited on Tucker Carlson’s show, which was a train wreck, and the publisher was very mad mathewingram.com/work/2017…
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New at The Torment Nexus: Is Bluesky decentralized? It’s complicated torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
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In today’s version of my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter, a member of Blue Oyster Cult talks about that infamous SNL cowbell sketch, and the founders remember Cyberia, the very first cybercafe: newsletter.mathewingram.com/blue-oyst…
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Just wanted to say that I know the headline item in this newsletter is a difficult read, and I debated whether to include it, but it was well done so I went with it newsletter.mathewingram.com/what-do-y…
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One thing this interview with Vincenzo Barney makes clear is that he knows he has won the literary lottery with his August Britt piece and he is just along for the ride slate.com/culture/2…
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I also write a weekly newsletter about tech and culture called The Torment Nexus, which is published via Ghost, Substack and on my website and is free to read, although donations are gladly accepted. You can find it here: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com
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If you’re looking for something to read on the weekend, try my newsletter of interesting links called “When The Going Gets Weird,” which I publish with Ghost, Substack and on the web — it’s free but donations are gratefully accepted newsletter.mathewingram.com
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Based on past DoJ antitrust cases like Microsoft, where the remedy came long after the technology world had already moved on, what this filing really means is that Google is quickly becoming irrelevant www.techmeme.com/241121/p5
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In my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I argue that — believe it or not — Elon Musk has made a good point in this one specific and limited case: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/elon-musk…
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Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” previously unseen footage of the JFK shooting sells for $137,000 and a German paraglider was sucked into a lightning storm and pushed higher than Mount Everest newsletter.mathewingram.com/previousl…
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I wrote about how Bluesky has a lot of potential as a Twitter replacement, but people like Cory Doctorow still have some concerns, and ultimately federation could allow many Twitters to bloom torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
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I’ve been going through some of my older columns and I came across this piece from 2017 in which I argued that we should use the L word when Trump lies. It seems almost quaint now mathewingram.com/work/2017…
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Bankruptcy judge halts The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’ InfoWars citing a lack of transparency news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptc…
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Elon Musk’s X sued to block a California law aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming the measure is an unconstitutional affront to free speech. www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…
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Hi @manton – keep getting errors when crossposting to Bluesky, and it seems to have something to do with the image. Is this on your end or theirs? Error says “Cross-posting exception: 49713940” and refers to MiniMagick. Sorry to keep bugging you about this, just curious
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There’s been a lot of attention on Bluesky lately, so for this week’s edition of The Torment Nexus I looked at whether Bluesky is the new Twitter, and whether we need one at all: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
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I encourage you to read the entire thing, but my favourite fact in my piece about Bluesky at The Torment Nexus is that CEO Jay Graber’s given name is “Lantian,” which means “blue sky” in Mandarin torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesk…
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Today in my “When The Going Gets Weird” newsletter, some heart transplant recipients show changes in personality, and a New York real estate queen who had a secret newsletter.mathewingram.com/heart-tra…
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Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb, nicknamed The Emperor Bomb, and the special mud that the MLB rubs on its baseballs is said to have magical properties newsletter.mathewingram.com/the-untol…
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