Is social media a problem? Yes! Would we be slightly better off if people went back to putting stuff on websites they actually own? Also yes! Do I think that this ‘blogging’ will make a huge comeback in 2025? Guys, I may be a bit wonky, but I’m not completely deluded.
And yet, the old internet is not completely dead. I mean, you somehow landed on this page. And these are the 5 most-read pieces I posted here in 2024.
#5 Friedrich #Merz is a difficult candidate in more ways than one. But I’m sure that he will win the upcoming German election anyway. And one half of the electorate will be even less happy than the other with this result.
#4 Back in January, I cloned myself using so-called ‘AI’. Scary stuff, but oddly funny.
#3 Last July, I wrote about two excellent articles that discuss the new normality of having far-right parties in government. Unpleasant but important stuff.
#2 Germany’s far-right AfD had a spectacularly bad European parliamentary campaign this year, but not even that hurt them very much. It seems that they can do whatever they want, without paying much of a political price.
#1 My yearly summary of new research on far-right, out in April, was by far the most popular new post this year.
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