What feel-good surveillance has cost us

Everyone loves a feel-good moment. I am as susceptible to a good ‘hopecore’ video as the next person; relishing these reminders that people are normally good to one another as a reprieve from hundreds of posts asserting the opposite. I have also experienced my fair share of feel-good moments that

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The lost privilege of an ephemeral childhood

The privilege of an offline (or mostly offline) childhood is well acknowledged, including on this website. Less so is what we lost when the current social media companies cemented their place in history and the first platform you started using at 12 survived long enough for you to still be