chronically online lives
The hyperlink, in this sense, is the building block of the modern internet.
Mid is a perfect bit of new slang for a culture in which quantity is crushing quality, in which you can stream endlessly and feel nothing.
Social media is no longer meant for connecting with friends; it is designed almost entirely to facilitate the following of brands and the monetizing of personalities.
Kyle Chayka - The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump
I'm more interested in algorithmic agency – ELAN ULLENDORFF
Nonchalance achieved chalantly is nothing new, but the way it is being encouraged on social media today reflects increasing structural limitations to life online.
Kyle Chayka - The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump
In that way, some consumers have yielded to a type of techno-fatalism. People know that algorithms exist and often dictate how culture is disseminated to them—and that there’s not much they can do about it, save for abandoning the platforms altogether and embracing a retro-Luddism about their consumption choices.
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World — The Atlantic
That manual step is something we can introduce in digital notes too.
The benefits?
You can filter ideas that are not worth coping over into your actual notes. Also, you can wrestle and develop ideas when you have more time to think about them.
a case for friction and against automation
In his latest work, Program or Be Programmed , the 15th anniversary edition, Rushkoff proposes four methods to avoid being programmed by digital technology, and to instead become the programmers of our world.
What we require is to:
What we require is to:
- Denaturalize power by revealing social constructions which are ideas we merely invented, and are not pre-existing laws w
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
If the spaces we imagine to facilitate reconnection with the self also banish the factors that determine who we are — the wider cultural dimensions of the worlds we belong to — then we are condemned to either living falsely, or being alone. Both concepts collapse when one acknowledges that, no matter how far off-grid one travels, there is no place,... See more
Lauren Collee • The Great Offline — Real Life
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
why some friction is a good thing.