Time limits, greyscale, and Brick not working to curb your phone addiction? Maybe you just need to toss it altogether! That's what anti-tech activist and writer August Lamm did. She dialed in to NMS via dumb phone to tell us about her experience as an artist in NYC without a smartphone or computer. Consider us inspired!! Other discussion includes the cuntiest dumb phone options, what we'd miss from the internet, and bleached eyebrows.

Sources and further reading:

August Lamm's Substack

Katie Lowe's essay about her first year without a smartphone

Luddite Teens 2022 NYT article

Luddite Teens 2025 NYT article

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