Your dad turns his phone toward you. On the screen, a German shepherd stands at a kitchen counter packing a lunch box in time to the music. “Is this real?” he asks. You know it […]

Right now people are paying $899 for a phone that can’t open Instagram, then waiting months for delivery. That’s the Light Phone 3. It has no browser, no email, no app store, and people are […]

Back in the day you used to memorize your best friend’s landline number, your parent’s office numbers, your grandparents landline number, the number of your favorite radio station, the local pizza shop, your favorite dimsum […]

A quarter of 18-to-34s never answer the phone, and nearly 70% would rather text. Why an unscheduled call now feels like spam, what that costs you, and what gets the practice back.

Rage bait is content made to make you angry on purpose. Someone posts something offensive, wrong, or unfair so you’ll comment, share, or argue in the replies. Your outrage counts as engagement, and engagement makes […]

AI psychosis describes delusional or reality distorting episodes that form, or get worse, during heavy chatbot use. It’s not an official diagnosis. It’s a term that spread fast through news coverage and a handful of […]

Photo by KATRIN  BOLOVTSOVA Tech neck is the stiff, aching neck and shoulders you get from spending hours looking down at your phone or laptop.  Most advice says to fix it with stretches and better […]

Chronically online means spending so much time on the internet that internet culture starts shaping how you talk, think, and react. The worse version: you slowly lose the ability to tell online conversations apart from […]