Is Internet Receipt Culture Our Undoing?

Welcome to another edition of Cyberbits—a weekly column on all things internet culture, from TikTok trends to random corners of Reddits to secret online subcultures.

I send  out Cyberbits in between working on longer essays—like Caught in the Study Web, LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe, Cashing in on Clubhouse, and Creeping as a Service (CraaS).

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