august 6 guh

I spent a lot of today thinking the decline in how people treat each other. Eventually I landed on a hazy kind of point about how a way that people are dumb, rude, mean, and inconsiderate offline is clearly influenced by the way people speak to and about each other online. I spent a lot of today thinking about that because Sydney Towle, a social media influencer who documented her three-year battle with cancer on Tiktok, died yesterday at the age of 26. In her New York Times obit, Katherine Rosman wrote about how Towle had been targeted by a bunch of redditors who had decided that she was lying about her condition because she wasn't performing cancer patient the way they assumed she should: Does something feel off to you about Syd Towle’s cancer story?” one of the most prolific posters wrote.“We have receipts, medical analysis, fact-checking and discussions,” the anonymous poster added, urging people to “join the conversation and tell us how you found us and why you may have…