February 2022

Ever since Facebook pivoted to “the metaverse” last October, including renaming itself Meta, I’ve been pondering the technological framing of this move. When he announced the change, Mark Zuckerberg pitched the metaverse as “the successor to the mobile internet.” In other words this new platform (which hasn’t yet been built) will be a mix of…

One of my favourite pop culture writers is Chuck Klosterman, who is around my age and so I’ve been reading his books and online essays since he started in the 1990s. He has a new book coming out this month called The Nineties. I’m really looking forward to reading his take on a decade that…