I'm John Favreau, welcome to Offline.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Best of Offline.

First a quick update.

Offline is taking a break for the next few weeks.

The team and I have some long plan time away as we unplug, recharge, and I'm sorry for

doing this.

Go Offline.

Don't worry.

We'll be back.

New episodes of Offline will hit your feet in early October.

Before we go, I wanted to look back and see what lessons we've learned from plumbing

the depths of the internet.

So today, instead of our usual interview, we picked out our all-time favorite moments

from Offline so far.

When I started the show, I had a good sense that the internet was breaking us.

Our brains, our culture, especially our politics.

But it was only a sense.

I didn't fully realize the extent of the damage, and I definitely didn't understand the

forces driving it.

And now, 10 months and 40 conversations later, I have a much better handle on it.

I will say that I'm pretty worried, much more so than when we started.

And I'm not sure we can regulate ourselves out of this mess either.

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