Interesting Things on the Internet: June 19th 2026 Edition
- Read This If You’re New and Trying to Find Your Way. “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live differently. I don’t think we have to live the way we currently do. I think something else is possible.”
- It’s 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick. Illuminating, brave, dispiriting-that-we-still-need-this writing from Ana.
- AI Economics for Dummies
- Why the AI backlash has turned violent
- On Maintenance with a digital government flavour, but rings true elsewhere too. “Maintenance, in government, is always optional, to the extent that we can decide how much to invest in it, and we always decide to invest the minimum.”
- In defense of the skunk at the garden party “In his 1970 essay, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, the economist Albert Hirschman argued that when a product or organization declines, people have three responses: they leave (exit); they stay no matter what (loyalty); or they use their voice. The same is true of gatherings. When a room is losing its way, do you say something? And how do you increase the likelihood that it’s heard?” Reminding myself that I should sit with the discomfort of speaking out more often.
- Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety “It wasn’t about child safety. It was about lobbying.” The social media ban isn’t going to work, and is just going to result in all of us having to hand over copies of our passports, etc. to companies that we know won’t be able to keep that information safe.