The front of Society
Nine Hundred Flats and No Neighbour
On a Sunday evening she realised she had not spoken aloud since Friday. She lives among three thousand people.
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The Confidant That Never Disagrees
Millions of people will confide in a chatbot tonight, because it is free and awake. The risk is not that it is cold. The risk is that it agrees.
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Therapy-Speak Left the Clinic
Words built for the consulting room are now used at brunch, in breakups and by HR. What the borrowing gave us, and what it quietly took away.
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Diagnosed by Reel
Five signs, forty seconds, and the relief of a name. Self-diagnosis by short video is mostly inaccurate and entirely understandable.
10 min readIndia has spent a decade telling people it is all right to ask for help. It has spent rather less on making sure there is someone to ask.
Who Pays for the Fifty Minutes
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The Men Who Are Fine
Ask an Indian man how he is and he will tell you, truthfully as far as he knows, that everything is first class.
10 min read