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I love the Internet and believe in the Internet. I think it is a tool, community, and wonder of the world. And so one very frustrating thing for me is the notion, long prevalent among both Internet natives and others, that “in real life” (IRL) and the Internet are somehow disjoint. Clearly, the Internet is real life.
You can't upload cash... or can you? Convenience stores function as hybrid offline/online spaces for payments and identify verification.
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Duration
~23 minutes (22K characters)
Release date
Mar 4, 2022