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Taylor Lorenz
Personal blog · usermag.co/pculturewriting
Taylor Lorenz writes User Mag, a personal blog at usermag.co about culture and writing. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Taylor Lorenz's posts cover social platforms and surveillance: the Bluesky and AT Protocol effort, the Free Our Feeds plan, and AI cameras in school buses. Commenters cite them as related reading without judging them.
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A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on the user side of consumer tech.
Most-linked posts?
- TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-25
What Hacker News says?
This launched today, trying to address your valid concerns: > Bluesky is an opportunity to shake up the status quo. They have built scaffolding for a new kind of social web. One where we all have more say, choice and control.But it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app. We want to create an entire ecosystem of int…
Comment linking /p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-back-social-media-from-billionaires
on “Let's Quit X”Submitted A MAGA civil war is breaking out over H-1B visas as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRelated article: https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-bac...
Comment linking /p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-back-social-media-from-billionaires
on “Free Our Feeds”Submitted Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis has been an ongoing concern (internal surveillance of children and drivers, external of other traffic) for at least two months now: * They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses (April 7th 2026) - https://www.usermag.co/p/theyre-putting-ai-cameras-in-school * School bus Driver Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoAvL1MoTIA
Comment linking /p/theyre-putting-ai-cameras-in-school
on “Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle”Submitted TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have reached peak touchscreen as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Much of Substack Is AI? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hot Surveillance Summer, a.k.a. Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted They're Putting AI Cameras in School Buses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Spotify the New YouTube? as a story · 1 points
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