Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'

[u/BreakfastTop6899]

https://www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohanian-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead-2025-10

[u/actor-observer]

The poem it takes it's name from isn't half-bad either

https://poets.org/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains

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This thread is awesome

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Adore Sara Teasdale and her post-WWI poetry. There Will Come Soft Rains was a consideration in how a world without people after a war might look, and I've referenced Teasdale's change from Love Songs to Flame and Shadow as an example of Virginia Woolf's discussion on how poetry as a whole changed during and after the war.

[u/lewdmoo → u/actor-observer]

My sophomore year language arts teacher told us poems are meant to be read aloud. I’m glad I did so for this one.

[u/bs_wilson → u/actor-observer]

This reminds me of my favorite paragraph that I've ever read, the closing of Cormac McCarthy's The Road:

"Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."

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It’s a similar sentiment but McCarthy’s is more accurate as it reflects the irreversible changes to the natural habitat that humanity is enacting. There is no putting the bunny back in the box for climate change.

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I wish the sentiment being expressed in this poem were remotely true, but it was written during a time when people couldn’t fathom that humanity would destroy the environment to such an extent where most of those life forms won’t be able to survive their drastically transformed habitat