The internet is broken. We take notes.
Every dead link is a small act of historical vandalism. Link rot — the quiet, relentless process by which the web forgets itself — is erasing the digital record faster than anyone is bothering to fix it. Here's why the internet has the long-term memory of a goldfish, and why nobody in power seems to care.
Jul 20, 2026
That subscription you can't cancel, the pre-checked box that signed you up for a newsletter, the fake countdown timer screaming that your deal expires in 10 minutes — none of this is accidental. Dark patterns are deliberate, psychologically engineered design choices, and the companies using them have decided you're not a customer. You're a target.
Jul 20, 2026
GDPR was supposed to hand internet users control over their own data. What it actually produced was a global epidemic of deliberately baffling pop-ups, deceptively colored buttons, and consent flows so labyrinthine that users surrender their privacy just to make the noise stop. Turns out, giving companies a legal obligation to ask permission is very different from giving users the power to say no.
Jul 20, 2026
Password managers were supposed to be the cure for credential chaos — one vault to rule them all. Instead, they've quietly become the most attractive targets on the internet, stuffed with every secret you own and, apparently, secured with the digital equivalent of a screen door. We need to talk about this.
Jul 20, 2026