Ryan, I'm looking for good stuff to read about the effect of social media and of screens generally on on human experience. I'm not talking about "gaming rots your brain" kinds of stuff, but about lots of the phenomena you chronicle and sometimes mock here: fads, online mobs, different forms of online popularity, transmission of new ways of thinking about things, deception of people, destruction of people, elevation of people into temporary celebrities . . . I think of all this stuff as things that happen in a space that is part electronic, part sociological -- in a space where the line between someone's consciousness and that person's online activities has blurred somewhat. Surely a lot has been written about this idea. Prefer something smart and well-thought-out but not dry and academic. Can you make a recommendation?

"It seems social platforms have not only eroded newsrooms by decimating the ad industry, but they have also, in the process, turned everyone into emotional trauma gig workers." You meanspirited smart motherfucker! I love you for the phrase"emotional trauma gig workers."