JA Westenberg | 18th September 2025 Observations from the airport boarding gate. Obsession with status is one of the last mainstream religions. "It makes me wonder: what would life look like if we stopped boarding by group? If the airline called out, 'Everyone at once,' would we descend into chaos, or would something like order figure itself out? Maybe the whole system depends on our willingness to submit to hierarchies that humiliate us" (1,000 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Sean Voisen | 1st August 2025 We have a high tolerance for tracking and monitoring. Governments and corporations perpetrate much of it, but we also do it to ourselves: sousveillance, not surveillance. Turn off the Apple Watch for a bit. "In a culture obsessed with achievement and self-optimisation, this might be the most countercultural act possible: to leave some things unmeasured, untracked, unoptimised, unpublicised" (2,100 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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