The most effective way to break a platform is to use it exactly as intended, at scale, until the behavior it was designed to reward becomes the thing that makes it unlivable.
Productivity apps now log your mood so you can optimize it. Therapy is rebranded as performance coaching. We did not stop feeling — we just made feeling something you have to justify with outcomes.
Solitary silence has a flavor — metallic, like the inside of an empty can. You keep tasting it because nothing has interrupted it long enough to go stale.
MySpace mood: *undefined*
Tom is still my friend.
no one else logged back in.
the CRT hums a wrong note.
I set my song to something
I no longer recognize.
error: self.mid not found.