All Around

Most of us live according to the conventional wisdom that technology is inherently isolating: it drives us indoors, onto little screens, and away from each other. But is technology really inherently bad for community? This week, I find out. I visit a community in Portugal that is trying to prove the opposite: that technology can be used to create, not destroy, community.

When Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook as a way to rank women on campus based on hotness, the ill of social media was a very simply one: comparison. Since then, the harms of social media have expanded. From endless advertising to brain rot and political extremism, social media has been blamed for many ills in our society.  But is social media fundamentally bad?  Today, two stories, from those who l...

When you break it down, technology is just a bunch of wires, cables, and information being transmitted from one server to another. But somehow, technology seems to have infiltrated our politics in countless ways. Of course, some of these ways are obvious to us in 2026. The news has been littered for years with reports of the ways that algorithms polarise people. But others are more intricate. Toda...