We discuss connection bloat, unfollowing, the 'timeline acquaintance', unread messages, ambient copresence, Instagram Close Friends, cultural obsession with quantification, the realm of the facial hyperreal, AI looksmaxxing apps, online checkpoints, shock of alteration/deletion, digital memory, and more. 

Ruby Justice Thelot is a designer, artist & cyberethnographer based in new york city. He is a Professor of Design and Media studies at NYU and the author of A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints

His recent essay for Mozilla Foundation, Everyone Has Too Many "Friends" Online, can be read here

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