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Prophecies for 2023 - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge

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All my visions will soon come to pass

You might remember that I started this thing not so long ago by proclaiming that the internet was already over. Before I wrote all that stuff down, I tried to explain the concept to a few friends, and all of them looked at me as if I’d gone mad. No, they said, obviously it’s not going anywhere. But I ignored them, and said that it would be ten years, maybe five, until the entirety of online became completely culturally irrelevant—and I think the last four months have shown that I was actually a little too cautious. In that time, Twitter revealed that its most active users were vanishing,…

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