Post, Shoot

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What is the relationship between the version of you that lives online and the one that walks around the earth? We think of our online selves as shadow versions of us which we can control. But in this age when facts are malleable, something strange is happening: our online selves are sometimes eclipsing our real ones, even when we don't want them to.

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0:00.0	It was the prettiest block we'd been to yet in Wilmington, Delaware.
0:03.1	Brick houses, trim patches of lawn.
0:05.6	As we approached the house, I remember noticing the afternoon
0:08.4	summer sun lighting up the porch like a stage.
0:10.8	Hi.
0:11.8	How you doing?
0:12.7	It's a nice block.
0:14.1	And then two minutes after walking into the living room,
0:17.2	we were introduced to all the dead people.
0:19.7	An urn on the dining room table.
0:22.0	That was a cousin who'd been shot.
0:24.2	Another cousin on the side table, also shot two obituaries
0:28.2	on the TV console.
0:29.6	People would be scared.
0:30.6	Like, people would be really scared.
0:32.0	Like, I never had to tell.
0:33.9	Like, so many of my friends would be safe.
0:35.8	Be safe.
0:36.5	This is Fami, a teenager I'd seen posting on Facebook.
0:40.1	He'd become a local specialist in morning memes,
0:42.6	particularly about this one kid who died, a friend of his
0:45.6	from the basketball team.
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