The Network That Knows You’re Real
A speculative design for a social network where identity is verified through human witnessing, not data. By grounding trust in real relationships and presence, it challenges scalable, algorithmic systems and reimagines online interaction as slower, more accountable, and rooted in social cost rather than frictionless verification.
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When the Audience Stops Caring
What happens to performance when the crowd isn’t human The previous post ended with a question I can’t stop thinking about. If social capital is increasingly built on digital signals, e.g. followers, checkmarks, engagement, reach, and if those signals can now be manufactured wholesale, who exactly is the audience for the game? And if that…
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We Are All Sneetches Now
Long before social media, Dr. Seuss wrote a near-perfect parable about status. You know the Sneetches. Star-bellies lorded their status over plain-bellies, until Sylvester McBean arrived with his machine. It put stars on, took stars off, for $3 a pop, and it pushed the whole island into confusion. By the end, nobody could remember who…
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