It’s been awhile since the last link round-up, so here are a bunch of interesting things from the internet:
- In case you missed it, I am continuing to record one second of video for every day of my life, then stitching them all together right after every one of my birthdays. Here’s this year’s video.
- Kevin Roose has a fascinating story about how a young man got radicalized through YouTube.
- Speaking of YouTube, they’ve been in the news a lot recently for some of their, let’s say, controversial decisions. Casey Newton has been giving YouTube some great coverage via his newsletter, The Interface (which I’d strongly recommend you subscribe to). He has a good rundown of some of YouTube’s recent decisions, as well as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s apology for them.
- Emily Todd VanDerWerff wrote for Vox about what it is like to come out as transgender at age 37 in Trump’s America.
- Nathan Rabin wrote a review of viral internet atrocity Loqueesha so that you never have to watch this film.
- Rolling Stone has a super fun oral history of Smash Mouth’s All Star.
- Will Oremus has been doing great coverage of the tech space over at Medium. In this piece, he tries to explain what really happens to AirPods when they die.
- This New Yorker piece from 2017 was new to me. It presents the case against being born by “anti-natalist” David Benatar. I don’t think it’s really possible to be able to say anyone is better off never existing (how can one truly “understand” what the alternative state is?), but the arguments for it are interesting to consider.
- Next time you think to share a viral Twitter story, consider the fact that it’s highly likely to be bullshit.
- Max Staley has written for The Outline about why it’s probably best we never go “inside” an episode of television again.
- Alex Lubben at Vice explains why your recycle bin might be a lie.
- Oh, and by the way, apparently UFOs really exist now? But it’s NBD because of all the other crazy shit happening right now.