Culture
Rayne Fisher-Quann’s seven deadlier sins
Forget 4th century monks: we ask the writer and “deep state internet princess” to imagine a fresh set of cultural crimes.
The Internet
Society
No, AI won’t kill us
The humans behind the technology are far scarier than ChatGPT. Panic and hysteria aside, what are some of the positive things AI could help us achieve?
Culture
Allie Rowbottom used Instagram to write the internet (and Caroline Calloway’s) favourite book
My Media Diet: In her debut novel, Allie Rowbottom unpicks what longing for synthetic beauty can do to a person’s psyche. Here’s what the author – who’s well acquainted with Instagram’s dark underbelly – gets up to online.
Life
BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
The social app might position itself as the anti-Instagram, but it’s really just another avenue for us to pretend our lives are a highlight reel. Do we need the added (two minutes of) pressure?
Life
What gives me the ick? People who are Extremely Online
Ickbait: If you use words like “oomf” or post selfies with people you don’t know, Daisy Jones is logging off.
Culture
My Media Diet: Polyester zine editor Ione Gamble
The zine founder explores chronic illness and feminism in her debut book Poor Little Sick Girls. Here, she reveals what she’s been reading, scrolling over and memeing.