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The Infinite Manosphere. We need a positive vision of masculinity ASAP
In response to the election, many pointed their finger at the young, male swing to the right to explain Trump’s victory. In 2016 we had...
Charley Johnson
Mar 27 min read


The Age of Participatory Media
Let's generate 'cold media,' shall we? In “Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!” I argued that we need to shift in seeing ourselves...
Charley Johnson
Jan 126 min read


The media is fragmented. Embrace it!
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity The U.S’s pursuit of a multiracial...
Charley Johnson
Nov 3, 20246 min read


If the medium is the message, what is the message of AI?
Marshall McLuhan famously argued that the medium matters more than the content it carries: the medium is the message. E.g. TV has made...
Charley Johnson
Jul 7, 20245 min read


🧠 Synthetic social media
Internet users, brace for the emergence of E-Swift In May of 2022, I tried to look around the corner and imagine the future of social...
Charley Johnson
Jan 7, 20245 min read


The problem with Elon Musk’s ‘first principles thinking’
A while ago I wrote an Untangled piece called The Artificial Gaze , where I asked what society would be ‘optimized’ for if it was one big...
Charley Johnson
Nov 5, 20235 min read


When it comes to social media, bigger isn't better; it's harmful.
Why ‘scale thinking’ is a big problem, and what to do about it. My dad is an economist and I studied economics in undergrad. Hey look at...
Charley Johnson
Mar 5, 20238 min read


Venture capitalists are the new narrators of crypto
That’s a big problem, and not for the reason you might think. Steve Jobs once said, “The most powerful person in the world is the...
Charley Johnson
Sep 4, 20226 min read


Let's imagine an alternative metaverse...
Society's entanglement with technology has brought forth unprecedented harms — do we really want to risk augmenting these in a metaverse?...
Charley Johnson
Jan 2, 202210 min read


💆 Some Unsatisfying Solutions for Facebook
In the limitations of each of these solutions, we can find lessons for a healthier information ecosystem Solution 0: rename the company,...
Charley Johnson
Dec 5, 20219 min read
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