Ernest Borowski
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Ernest Borowski
The Case for Reckless Climate Optimism
climatealmanac.org
I believe that we desperately need to be experimenting and developing methods of communication that aren’t beholden to either the advertising industry or the brittle egos of billionaires.
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
Pewnie, chcielibyśmy czytać dłużej i częściej sięgać po wartościowe teksty, a przynajmniej bogate językowo. Niestety król internetu nie dopuszcza nas do swojego panelu sterowania. Nie można zresetować tej absurdalnej sytuacji i wyczyścić dziwnych ciasteczek w naszej percepcji odpowiedzialnych za małe dopaminowe eksplozje podczas oglądania (nowych!)... See more
Katarzyna Janota • Na zawsze gdzie indziej / Literatura / dwutygodnik.com
The word “essay” has a brilliant etymological journey. It is derived from essayer in French, meaning ‘to endeavour’ or ‘to attempt’ or ‘to do one’s utmost.’ An essay, in other words, is a humble, tentative effort. When we write essays we are simply trying to explain our thoughts, trying to share our feelings, trying to connect with others.
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
We’ve grown so used to the idea that social media is damaging our democracies that we’ve thought very little about how we might build new networks to strengthen societies. We need a wave of innovation around imagining and building tools whose goal is not to capture our attention as consumers, but to connect and inform us as citizens.
Ethan Zuckerman • Building a More Honest Internet - Columbia Journalism Review
And so I remain at an unresolvable juncture: the intersection of the very strong belief that we must experiment with new modes and systems of communication, and the certain knowledge that every time I so much as glance at anything shaped like a social feed, my brain smoothes out, the web of connections and ideas I’m weaving is washed away, and I tu... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
About the feeling of getting into social-media loopscrolling
Even when we live in cities, and no matter how socially busy we are, social media feels like a way to remind others, as much as ourselves: “Here I am! I matter!” And if we stop using it, we (or I) wonder if we might simply disappear into the forest, never to be thought of again