HeyJaredBrigid Delaney
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Our lives and identities have moved online â and itâs driving us insane | Brigid Delaney (opens the original)
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People have become servants to social media. The ultimate flex is to walk back to real life Think of your online life as a garden. At first itâs just a few seeds here or there â a Facebook profile where you created entire albums from a night at the pub, or maybe a Tumblr or a Myspace page listing your favourite bands. It is fun â something just for you and your friends to enjoy. Then the garden grows. You get an Instagram account and document moments from each day on Stories, use LinkedIn
We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney (opens the original)
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There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing To imagine the future as being almost entirely bleak has somehow crept into the collective this year. Last week I was having coffee with an old friend. He was telling me about what his kids wanted to study when they went to university, when he suddenly broke off, stared into the middle distance and said, “I wish I never had children.” He’d been a father for
Cities sweltering and the smell of the middle ages: has the climate crisis killed Instagramâs Euro summer? | Brigid Delaney (opens the original)
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Who dreams of having a Euro summer now when staying in an ancient, uncooled building in the Old Town is like trying to sleep in a wood-fired pizza oven? This week the Euro summer comes to an end â and so does a certain type of posting on Instagram. Waiting at the bus stop in the grey winter dawn, a slanting rain soaking your trouser leg, you can warm yourself by scrolling your feed and seeing pictures of Australians enjoying a Euro summer. There it is again â azure Greek coves, plates of bar
Scams have become a constant part of life. In a world full of distrust, how can we know what is real? | Brigid Delaney (opens the original)
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There is something depressing about being scammed. Every unknown number, every marketplace purchase, every text with a link now arrives with suspicion My day started with exciting news. It was a long and gushing email from popular Australian breakfast radio show host Sally Sara saying she was following up on a previous conversation (huh? wot?) and would love to interview me about my 2009 book, This Restless Life, on her program. “I remain genuinely enthusiastic about the opportunity to feature y
Sydney, you were a dream of warmth and ease. When I returned to wintry Melbourne, time collapsed â and the city was still romantic (opens the original)
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A few years after graduating, I moved north and got lucky. It was like riding a smooth, perfect wave that would never hit the shore I went to a wedding in Sydney when I was 12, arriving from the gloomy and windswept south-west coast of Victoria, and even though it was only two days I never forgot it. First time on a plane, first time eating poached salmon, first time realising people could actually live like this, drenched in sunlight, homes right on the cliffs, goldilocks weather where you coul
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