Welcome to another weekly edition of Cyberbits!

Cyberbits is a weekly curated newsletter of fascinating finds on the internet, from random Reddit threads to weird webpages. I’ll also include interesting bytes I come across while working on longer Cybernaut essays. I send this out every Friday!

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In this week’s edition: the TikTok universe—its extraordinary ability to let us glimpse into lives unlived, unique vernacular and trends, plus its black-box algorithm. 

TikTok as a Portal Into Different Worlds