Reading @kjezermorton.bsky.social story of your life and v taken by her calling social media a hobby… and we should just own it
Kathryn Jezer-Morton
@kjezermorton.bsky.social
I write the column Brooding for The Cut Book coming in 2026 from Viking
Had enough hand-wringing over what social media is doing to our brains? Let's consider how it's changing storytelling... @kjezermorton.bsky.social wrote a whole book about this & it's *excellent* Catch my convo w/ her at Libreria in London this weds 19 Aug for free> libreria.io/the-story-of...
The Story of Your Life: Kathryn Jezer-Morton on how social media is changing how we live | Libreria
In The Story of Your Life, journalist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when social media doesn't just
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Taking Viarail from MTL to TO tonight. Funny how they do a land acknowledgement as u leave Montreal, like “we recognize and honour the original stewards of this land on which the train will be stalled for 40 mins with no explanation”
I’m going to be in Toronto this week, which almost never happens. Come say hi at Society Clubhouse on Weds at 7. I’ll be chatting with Amil Niazi! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-story-...
The Story of Your Life - In Conversation
Join us to celebrate the launch of Kathryn Jezer-Morton's The Story of Your Life!
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Man. Just a really good pod today with @kjezermorton.bsky.social about social media as a collective storytelling project. About how the platform architectures shape what stories we tell about ourselves and what that does to humans over time...And whether the era of posting is coming to an end.
How Social Media Makes Our Lives Smaller
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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If I am coming through your city or town later this summer, please come say hi!!
🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @morgansung.bsky.social, @sfgate.com's Stephen Council, and @kjezermorton.bsky.social about friction-maxxing and how doing things the hard way can bring us more joy, serendipity and human connection. ❓How do you friction-maxx? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/ft7P38H
As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...
In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing
In the face of technologies that sell us escapism at every turn, we need to build up tolerance for “inconvenience.”
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Impressed that this piece was up for a full 10 hours before someone mentioned calling social services in the comments. America is growing up 🥹 www.thecut.com/article/broo...
Happy Mother’s Day to the Moms Who Love to Party
Going out makes us more alive to the joys of home life.
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Today my 11 year old was like, does the F in F Scott Fitzgerald stand for “fuck”?
last evening my family and I were walking past my childhood home as a guy was coming out the front door. I stopped and said "I grew up here" and he was like "cool" and then he got into his new Audi and left. He should have invited me in to look around right?
My family is cursed… is yours? Sound off in the comments! www.thecut.com/article/broo...
What’s the Power of a Family Curse?
In today’s fantasies of family optimization, there is almost nothing that can’t be scrubbed out or nurtured into submission. Almost.
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It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.
Bennie Thompson@benniethompson.bsky.social · last yr.In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.
Because tomorrow is tax day I was thinking about my late father's best friend, Randy Kehler, who refused to pay federal income taxes as an act of protest. I hadn't heard he died last summer. What an inspiration Randy was and should continue to be! www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/u...
Randy Kehler, 80, Dies; Peace Activist Inspired Release of Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg was so moved by Mr. Kehler’s opposition to the Vietnam War that he decided to leak documents that changed the course of the conflict.
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I heard that song “bittersweet symphony” the other day and suddenly knew exactly what it would feel like to be a rich democratic candidate riding public transit for the first time in their life
SECOND LIFE "treats digital culture and the internet as it is: a character in our lives, deserving of our sharpest critical engagement, but also part of how we make ourselves at home in the world" - thank you @kjezermorton.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/seco...
Amanda Hess Unpacks Parenting in the Digital Age
The author of the tender and funny memoir Second Life understands why you got emotionally attached to your pregnancy-tracking app.
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Every person with a working brain should be chilled to the bone by the government’s illegal capture and disappearing of this man. And every educator who works on a college campus should be enraged at this institutional cowardice and ready acquiescence.
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 2y agoThis took less than a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
all the talk about the attention economy etc misses the part about social media being a disciplinary technology, in terms of people's habits tastes behaviours. the book i'm writing is about this and i'm almost finished the first draft
The Florida Project is amazing too. Respect to Sean Baker
Wrote about why gender reveals are not about gender www.thecut.com/article/broo...
How Does ‘Big-Reveal’ Content Shape Our Family Stories?
To “prove” that “real stuff” is “happening,” we transform ordinary life into something splashier online.
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in like the 1998 congressional campaign Bernie's opponents made bumper stickers that said 'Bye Bye Bernie' and so Bernie's campaign made "response" ones that said "Aye Aye! Bernie!" My dad had one on his Subaru Impreza and I found it a bit cringe. In fact in retrospect I still kinda do.
french people like to snack on the end bit of their baguette on the walk home from the boulangerie and that's how i am chugging a lacroix while carrying the box home
has photoshopping family photos become the norm? sincere question thanks