dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
via Sam Kriss
God, I mean, I think capitalism has infiltrated almost everything on the internet at this point. I think the reason a lot of people are spending more time in group chats and discord servers is because it's a reaction to all of this. They want spaces to express themselves that are free from algorithms and brands.
"The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find their way to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have." (Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?)
As part of its purpose in slowing news down (hence the name), and taking time to make sense of what’s really going on in the world rather than just react to the immediate, Tortoise’s editorial team hosts weekly online ‘Open News Think-Ins’ at which they discuss the news stories of the week with the subscriber community. They start the conversation
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YES. I don’t want to read everything, I just want to return to the best things over and over again. Or, like Oprah once said: “I don’t have any new lessons. But I often think that it’s not the new lessons as much as it is, really, learning the old ones again and again.”