Social Media

The Most Radical Thing You Can Do On Meta Is Leave

Surveillance capitalism has a single requirement: that you stay. The model does not care what you think about it. It cares that you're here to be measured thinking it.

The Architecture of Displacement: A South Wales Case Study on Walled Gardens

Platforms must be forced to state explicitly and unambiguously that content is permanently at risk. The current user agreement model hides reality behind legalese.

Social Media in 2026: A Case for Contempt

Social media platforms are infrastructure you don't own, operated under terms you didn't negotiate, subject to unilateral changes you'll find out about after the fact.

The New Common Room: Why We’re Opening a Discord

The problem with platforms like X and Substack Notes is that they encourage you to perform. You write a comment hoping for likes. Discord is different. It’s a chat. It’s a messy, real, flowing conversation. It’s the difference between giving a speech and sitting in a pub.

The Internet Is Disappearing — and You’re Not Supposed to Notice

"When was the last time you clicked from one independent website to another, following a chain of human curiosity rather than an algorithmic suggestion? When was the last time you felt lost online in a good way?"

A Quiet Realignment

Art of FACELESS Art of FACELESS We’ve spent the past week taking a long, unsentimental look at what it means to exist on the modern internet — not the nostalgic version full of community and conversation, but the real architecture: an attention economy, a surveillance layer, and a network that