Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
No article has shaken me this year the way The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society has. Really fucked my shit UP.
In the early era of digitalization, choosing Times New Roman was often less a deliberate endorsement than a default imposed by limited options.
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
While this is a Black Friday list, it also serves as a good gift guide. A lot of it isn’t really my style, but there are some good rabbit holes.
GitHub - rusiaaman/chat.md: An md file as a chat interface and editable history in one.
rusiaamangithub.com
I read nearly every post from Jon Haidt’s After Babel, but a recent one entitled “Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus” really helped deepen my understanding of how we got to where we are now as it relates to anti-Semitism. It feels especially important as a parent of young children to understand “common enemy identity politics” vs. “common humanity identity politics” so we can identify it and discuss it more effectively with our kids and community.
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If these aren’t Berlin vibes, then I don’t know what are. This thing where these formerly magnificent cities are now at this tense, awkward place, where people are trying to proceed with the cushy things, but the fascism is getting less coy, to say the least. I feel like I’ve been seeing other people say it, but you can definitely cross-reference... See more
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The internet is the psych ward of the information sphere.