Ever sit there scrolling through “brain rot” on your phone, barely noticing that hours have passed? Do you often find yourself wondering why the entire internet feels like an infomercial? Have you ever asked “am I arguing with an AI bot or a real person?” while commenting on a Facebook post you didn’t even really mean to click on?

If your answer to any or all of those questions is yes, then you and I share something in common — and so you will probably enjoy this newsletter.

I write here about the ongoing decline of the internet and what I am personally doing to eliminate its most-damaging aspects from my life. Consider subscribing if that sounds like something you want to do, too.

Maybe you’ll learn something useful from my efforts? Maybe we’ll build a community of grumpy-yet-still-stubbornly-optimistic folks who want to resurrect the forgotten spirit of pre-social media message boards and Angelfire fandom pages?

Here’s hoping.

Disclaimer: This newsletter is written and illustrated by a human being who thinks generative AI is the spawn of some dystopian fever dream’s technofeudal beast. If I learn that you’ve fed my work into some generative AI model without permission or consent, I will haunt you Fak-style until the end of your days.