News Summary

• Civilized culture is based on a thin sort of friction.
• You don't yell at the library, act boorish at a restaurant or hassle a minor celebrity at the supermarket.
• Add selfish hustle, AI agents and cheap bots, and the thin friction is insufficient.
• Fake sincerity is now cheap.
• Interchangeable identities subvert a generations-long tradition of owning your words and your actions.
• You won’t be able to knock unless you’re invited first.
• Of course, the invitation will probably be filtered out.