We Didn’t Ask for This Internet
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Hey, it's Anna Martin from the New York Times. What if I told you you'll never have to hear this line again? Wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, no, I actually can't tell you that, but you know what I can tell you? A place I think you might want to go.
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When was the last year that the internet felt good to you? I think everybody has different answers to this. Mine, I think, go fairly far back, maybe to the heyday of blogging, at least before the moment when Twitter and Facebook went algorithmic. But whatever your answer to it is. I have not found many people who think 2026, right now, this internet, with all of its anger and its outrage and its AI slop, this is what we were promised.
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