I may be oversaturated with new social media apps. I started creating little videos of our vacation images on my iPhone and posting them on TikTok — a fun way to while away the hours when waiting for trains and planes. And then today, I was pressured into signing up for Threads (@laura11d), which is supposed to be some new happy place for the Twitter crowd, but really looks like the same thing. 

So, this morning, I’m overwhelmed with jet lag, too much social media, and a thousand pictures of Italy on my hard drive that need culling. That means, this week’s newsletter won’t be a coherent essay on an important thing. Student loans and affirmative action will have to wait until next week.

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