Every complaint about New York City is like a 5th Wave gentrifier complaining about 6th Wave gentrifiers wondering “what happened?”— the answer for 30 years has been, “New York got safer, increasing demand, and didn’t build a lot of new housing—people move where there is supply.”

2025-05-11
I’ve never heard of Sarah Davis Baker, but somehow the algorithm knew this would be right up my alley. A great video essay entitled, The Internet Used to Be A Place.
If you remember what Geocities was, this is for you.
The internet lived in a room, and that room had a door. It took a long time to notice when the door went missing.