The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot

There are many internets. There are internets that are bright and clean and whistling fast, like the trains in Tokyo. There are internets filled with serious people talking as if in serious rooms, internets of gossip and heart emojis, and internets of clowns. There are internets you can only enter through a hole under your bed, an orifice into which you writhe.It’s a chromatic thing that can’t hold a shape for more than an instant. But every year, I get to see the internet through the eyes of su...